PNG to GIF
Convert PNG images to GIF. PNG is built for screenshots, logos, and anything with flat colour or sharp edges; GIF for short looping animation, paid for with a 256-colour palette. GIF allows 256 colours per frame, so photographic gradients will band. It suits flat graphics and short loops, not photos. Runs on your own Vistalyth Tools instance. Files never reach a third party.
Features
- Quality control over the GIF encode, so you choose the size-versus-detail point
- Batch conversion across a folder of PNG files
- Metadata and colour profile carried over wherever GIF can hold them
- Your PNG files are processed on your own server and never uploaded anywhere
What you can do
- Cut page weight by serving GIF instead of PNG
- Build a short loop or flat graphic that displays anywhere an image does
- Satisfy an upload form or pipeline that takes GIF and rejects PNG
Self-hosted. Your files never leave your network.
Vistalyth Tools runs entirely on your own infrastructure. Files processed with PNG to GIF 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 PNG to GIF lose quality?
- Dithering hides some of the banding at the cost of a noisier, larger file. Flat graphics need none of it; photographs need more than it can give.
- 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 PNG afterwards?
- You can, and if GIF is lossless the round trip is clean. If GIF is lossy, converting back gives you a PNG wrapper around already-degraded pixels rather than the original.
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