GIF is a 1987 format still doing jobs it was never designed for. Its 256-color palette makes it a poor choice for stills — converting to PNG gives you a modern, lossless file that any tool accepts.
Be aware of what this conversion is: for animated GIFs, this tool extracts the first frame as a PNG and tells you so. If you need the animation preserved, you need a video or animation tool, not a still-image converter.
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This is Convert Image Format preconfigured for this task — open the full tool for every option.
Select one or more images.
Choose the target format; consequences (like losing transparency in JPEG) are shown before converting.
Pick a background color if converting transparency to JPEG.
Convert and download individually or as a ZIP.
Every output is re-decoded to confirm it parses as the target format with the expected dimensions; failures are isolated per file.
Standard PNG cannot. This tool extracts the first frame and clearly labels the result. Animated PNG (APNG) exists but has narrow tool support and isn't produced here.
That's the source GIF's 256-color palette, not the conversion. PNG stores the frame losslessly — including whatever dithering the GIF already had.
Technical guidance for choosing settings and reviewing the result.
There is no quality percentage that makes every image exactly 1 MB or 100 KB. A reliable target-size workflow measures real encodes, preserves the best result under the limit, and tells you when resizing is necessary.
8 min read · Reviewed August 2026