Convert GIF to PNG

Converting GIF to PNG is worth doing when the destination matters more than the source. GIF is built for short animations and simple graphics limited to 256 colours. PNG is built for screenshots, logos and anything needing sharp edges or transparency. Which one you want depends entirely on where the image is going next.

The right destination for a static GIF, because PNG is also lossless and handles far more than 256 colours. Simple graphics, icons and diagrams saved as GIF usually come out smaller as PNG as well as looking better.

Animation does not survive this conversion. PNG holds a single image, so an animated GIF is reduced to its first frame and the rest is discarded. Convert to WebP or AVIF if the movement needs to be preserved.

PNG is the natural destination from another lossless format. Every pixel survives exactly, and because PNG actually compresses where formats like BMP do not, the file usually shrinks considerably at the same time. This is the conversion with no downside.

GIF stores an indexed palette rather than full colour values, so decoding expands those indices back into real pixels. Where the file holds several frames, the first is taken unless the target format supports animation.

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