Convert GIF to JPG
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A GIF is an animation or it is a picture from 1998, and this conversion treats it as the second thing. You get the first frame, as a still, and if the GIF was moving then the movement is gone for good.
When that is what you want, JPG is a reasonable target for one specific kind of GIF: a photograph that somebody saved as one, usually years ago, usually badly. GIF stores at most 256 colours per frame, which is why old photographic GIFs look banded and speckled, and JPG will hold that same picture in far less space without adding anything new to it.
For anything else, JPG is the wrong choice and GIF to PNG is the right one. Logos, pixel art, diagrams, screenshots and buttons are exactly the flat, hard-edged images GIF was built for, and exactly the images JPG handles worst: it will soften the edges and speckle the flat areas while making the file no smaller.
How to convert GIF to JPG
- Drop your GIF files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes
Transparency is lost
JPG cannot store see-through pixels, so anything transparent is filled with the colour you pick in the panel, white unless you change it.
Animation is lost
A GIF can hold many frames and a JPG holds one, so you get the first frame as a still image.
GIF and JPG side by side
| GIF | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1987, from CompuServe | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | Yes |
| Transparency | Yes | No |
| Where it opens | Universal, and has been for longer than most of the web | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote |
| Best at | Short looping animations, and almost nothing else any more | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict |
More on choosing between JPG, PNG, WebP and AVIF.
Questions about GIF to JPG
Can I keep the animation?
No, and not with any tool on this site. A JPG holds a single image, so an animated GIF gives you its first frame and nothing else. More fundamentally, a browser canvas has no way to write animation back out, which is why nothing here converts to an animated format either. If the movement is the point, keep the GIF, or use a video tool: an MP4 of the same animation is usually a fraction of the size.
Will it look worse than the GIF?
Almost certainly not, and often better, because you are starting from a format that already threw the colours away. A GIF has at most 256 of them, so a photograph in one is already banded and dithered. JPG has 16.7 million and will store what it is given faithfully. What it will not do is undo the banding: the dither pattern is part of the picture now, and JPG preserves it while sometimes softening it slightly.
Why did my logo look blurry after converting?
Because you converted the wrong kind of image. JPG compresses in eight-by-eight blocks and puts its errors where contrast is highest, which is precisely the hard edges a logo is made of. The result is a faint grey halo around every line. GIFs are usually flat graphics rather than photographs, so this is the common case rather than the rare one. Convert to PNG instead, which keeps every edge exactly.
Why is the JPG sometimes bigger than the GIF?
Because GIF is genuinely efficient at flat colour and JPG is not. A simple icon of three colours compresses to almost nothing as a GIF, and JPG has to describe every block of it in terms of frequencies, which takes more space and looks worse. If the file grows, that is the format telling you it is the wrong one for this picture. Photographs go the other way and shrink dramatically.
Other conversions
GIF also converts to PNG.