Convert GIF to JPG

To change GIF to JPEG, drop the GIF on this page and press Convert to JPEG. This free GIF to JPG converter works inside your browser, so the GIF is never uploaded, and the JPG keeps its name: banner.gif is saved as banner.jpg. A GIF that does not move looks the same as a JPG, ready for a form or app that will not take a GIF. Two things change on the way:

• Animation stops. A JPG holds one still picture, so an animated GIF gives its first frame and the other frames are left out. We tried an 8-frame sticker and a 20-frame clip of 1.4 MB: each JPG matched frame 1, and the JPG of the clip was under 6 KB.
• See-through areas turn white. A JPG has no transparency, so the converter puts white behind the picture before it saves. The clear background of our test logo came out white in Chrome and in Firefox.

Want every frame as a picture of its own? Open the GIF in GIF to frames, choose JPG under Save as, and keep every frame, every few frames or only the ones you pick. To keep the movement itself, GIF to WebP, under Related conversions below, keeps every frame and its timing.

Under Image quality you get Smaller, Balanced and Best, which save at JPEG quality 60, 80 and 95 out of 100. Balanced is picked until you change it. Only the file size and the fine detail change: the JPG keeps the width and height of the GIF. We converted a photo-like GIF and a bar chart at each setting:

Balanced suits most uses: it cut our photo GIF to about a fifth of its size. Pick Smaller when a form sets a strict size limit, and Best when you will print or edit the picture and want to keep more detail. No setting adds detail the GIF never had, though. A GIF holds at most 256 colours, so any banding or speckle in it is still there in the JPG, even at Best.

JPEG was made for photographs. On logos, text and flat-colour charts it leaves faint smudges along sharp edges, and it often saves no space. Our 32-colour bar chart came out with more than 2,000 colours as a JPG at Balanced, almost all of the changed pixels along the edges of the bars and letters, and the JPG was larger than the GIF at every setting. A 2.4 KB logo became a 6.9 KB JPG.

For pictures like these, convert GIF to PNG. The PNG copies every pixel exactly and keeps the see-through background, and our chart as a PNG was about the size of its JPG. Keep JPG for photo-like GIFs, or for a form that takes nothing else. When to send a JPEG and when to send a PNG walks through the choice for photos, screenshots and logos.

Select up to 100 GIFs in the file picker, or drag them onto the page together. Your browser converts them one after another, all at the Image quality you chose, and each JPG takes the name of its GIF. Save them one by one with their Download buttons, or press Download all (ZIP) to get every JPG in one file, whatafile-converted.zip.

Other formats that a form turns away have pages of their own: convert WebP to JPG for pictures saved from websites, and convert SVG to JPG for logos and icons drawn as SVG. To go the other way, convert JPG to GIF, bearing in mind that a GIF holds only 256 colours.