How to convert GIF frames to JPG
- Drop your GIF file on the box above, or click it to choose the file — or press Load a sample to try it first.
- Check the settings below the box; the defaults suit most files.
- Press Convert. Long jobs show a progress bar and can be cancelled; you then see what was made and its real size.
- Download the .jpg file.
What is kept when you convert GIF frames to JPG
- The first frame, a chosen frame or all frames are saved as complete JPG images, each composited as the browser shows it.
- JPG has no transparency: transparent areas are filled with the background colour you choose (white by default).
- JPG is lossy; at the default 92% quality the difference is hard to see. Several frames download as a ZIP.
About GIF and JPG files
A GIF holds one or more frames, each with up to 256 colours, a display time in hundredths of a second, and a rule for what happens to it when the next frame appears. It plays everywhere, which is why it survives. It opens in every browser, chat app and image viewer.
JPG is the most widely accepted picture format. It has no transparency and compresses lossily, which suits photographic frames best. It opens in every browser, phone and upload form.
Good to know
- Browsers play frame delays of 0 or 10 ms as 100 ms, so 20 ms (50 frames per second) is the fastest a GIF really plays.
- For flat graphics and screenshots, PNG frames stay sharper than JPG.
Privacy and limits
The file is read and converted by this page in your browser; there is no upload and no account. Frame count, size and memory are checked from the file’s structure before any frame is decoded, so a hostile GIF cannot exhaust the tab. A GIF may have up to 500 frames and 2,048 pixels on each side. Files up to 50 MB are accepted; a file of the wrong type or a damaged file is rejected with the reason.