What is TIFF to PNG conversion?
This tool converts TIFF (a high-quality format common in printing, scanning and professional photography) into PNG. Because most browsers can't open TIFF, the tool decodes it locally on your device and converts with no upload. TIFF is a high-quality, lossless format common in printing, scanning and professional photography. Quality is excellent but files are large, and most browsers cannot display it — converting to JPG or PNG makes it usable on the web and in everyday apps.
How to use it
- Select or drop in your TIFF (.tif/.tiff).
- The tool decodes it locally and converts to PNG.
- Click Download to save the PNG.
When to convert
When you need to put a scanned or pro-camera TIFF on the web, email it, or import it into software that doesn't support TIFF, converting to PNG is the easy fix. Choose PNG to keep the highest quality, or JPG for a small, shareable file.
When should you pick TIFF to PNG?
Choose PNG over JPG when you want to preserve every detail of a TIFF scan, when you'll re-edit it later in an image editor, or when you need a clean master copy for archiving. PNG is lossless, so opening, tweaking and re-saving won't stack up compression damage the way JPG does, and text and line edges stay clean. It also supports a transparent background, which helps if you've cut out the subject for a composite.
Keep this in mind: a PNG is smaller than the original TIFF but still fairly large, especially for high-resolution scans. If your only goal is to email the file or put it on a web page and you won't edit it again, JPG will be far smaller and lighter on bandwidth — PNG would be overkill.
Using lossless compression as a measuring instrument
All three inputs are the same 2.75 MB of uncompressed pixels, and PNG is lossless — it discards nothing, it only folds up whatever repeats. That makes the output size a reading: it measures how much predictability the picture contains. The photo lands at 2.25 MB (-18%), barely moving, because film grain and continuous tone offer almost nothing to reuse. The UI screenshot lands at 22.9 KB (-99%), because most of it is the same grey and the same edge over and over. The illustration gives 40.6 KB (-99%). One conversion, -18% to -99%, and the whole spread comes from content. A useful comparison: send that same photo through TIFF to JPG and it is 288.4 KB. PNG kept every pixel, and the price was a file dozens of times larger. Archive as PNG, publish as JPG.