Convert TIFF to PNG

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is a versatile, high-quality image format commonly used in professional photography, publishing, and graphic design. It supports lossless compression, preserving image quality while maintaining layers, transparency, and multiple pages. TIFF files can handle both RGB and CMYK color spaces, making them ideal for print production. While larger in size than JPEGs, TIFFs excel at storing detailed images without degradation.

PNG (Portable Network Graphics) files are lossless image files that support transparency and millions of colors. Created in 1996 as an alternative to GIF, PNGs excel at displaying sharp graphics, logos, and text-heavy images. They maintain crisp edges and vibrant colors without quality loss during compression. While larger in file size than JPEGs, PNGs are ideal for web graphics requiring transparency or precise detail preservation.

PNG output is useful when you need transparency or want to keep the decoded pixels without further compression loss, such as for graphics, screenshots, or files you will edit again. The tradeoff is size: photographs saved as PNG are often much larger than JPG. For sharing photos where size matters, JPG may be the more practical choice.

PNG files fully support transparency through an alpha channel, allowing both fully transparent and semi-transparent pixels. This makes PNG ideal for logos, icons, and images that need to blend seamlessly with different backgrounds. Unlike JPEG, PNG's lossless compression preserves sharp edges and transparency without quality degradation, though file sizes may be larger. The format supports both binary transparency (fully visible or invisible pixels) and variable transparency levels (partial opacity).

Converting to PNG adds no compression loss to the decoded pixels. Framebird decodes the TIFF and encodes a new PNG file, and PNG encoding is lossless for those pixels. It cannot restore detail already lost in the source. Source metadata is not copied, so embedded details may not carry over. The new file is not a copy of the TIFF itself. Keep your original file.