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Convert PNG to GIF
An upload form, a forum, a signature field or a piece of legacy software accepts GIF and nothing newer.
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Where the streams already fit the target container this is a lossless remux, which is close to instant. Otherwise it re-encodes, which in a browser is slow — keep it under a few hundred MB and send long videos to the cloud engine.
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What actually changes
PNG and GIF are not the same picture in two wrappers.
The image is quantised down to a palette of at most 256 colours and stored with LZW compression. Everything above that palette is approximated, usually by dithering neighbouring pixels to fake the missing shades.
Worth knowing first
This is the one image conversion that is lossy in a way you can see immediately. A photo loses smooth gradients to visible banding, and transparency collapses from 256 levels of alpha to a single fully transparent colour, which leaves ragged edges.
Questions
PNG to GIF, answered
Why does my gradient look striped?
GIF cannot hold more than 256 colours. A sky that used thousands of shades has to pick 256 of them, and the joins are the stripes you are seeing.
Can I make an animation from several PNGs?
Yes, that is the main legitimate reason to still produce GIF. Frame ordering and delay are set at conversion time.
How to convert PNG to GIF
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Choose your settings
Graphics Interchange Format is lossy, so the quality control decides the trade between size and fidelity.
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Download
Converted and deleted the moment it finishes. Never written to permanent storage.