GIF to PNG
Convert GIF images to PNG. GIF is built for short looping animation, paid for with a 256-colour palette; PNG for screenshots, logos, and anything with flat colour or sharp edges. PNG holds a single frame, so an animated GIF is reduced to its first frame. Runs on your own Vistalyth Tools instance. Files never reach a third party.
Features
- Quality control over the PNG encode, so you choose the size-versus-detail point
- Batch conversion across a folder of GIF files
- Metadata and colour profile carried over wherever PNG can hold them
- Your GIF files are processed on your own server and never uploaded anywhere
What you can do
- Cut page weight by serving PNG instead of GIF
- Batch a folder of GIF files into PNG in one pass
- Satisfy an upload form or pipeline that takes PNG and rejects GIF
Self-hosted. Your files never leave your network.
Vistalyth Tools runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Files processed with GIF to PNG are never uploaded to third-party servers. Deploy a single Docker container and process files with full privacy, no watermarks, and no usage limits. Open source under AGPL-3.0.
Frequently asked questions
- Will converting GIF to PNG lose quality?
- Only the first frame survives, so if the animation is the point, convert to WebP or MP4 instead and keep the motion.
- Which quality setting should I use?
- Start at the default, then lower it until you can see the difference at the size the image is actually viewed. Most photographs hold up further down than people expect.
- Can I go back to GIF afterwards?
- You can, and if PNG is lossless the round trip is clean. If PNG is lossy, converting back gives you a GIF wrapper around already-degraded pixels rather than the original.
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