Will the GIF look identical to my BMP?

If the BMP uses 256 or fewer colors — true of MS Paint drawings, old icons, and simple UI screenshots — the GIF is pixel-for-pixel identical. Photographic BMPs exceed the palette and get quantized, with visible banding in smooth areas.

How much space does the conversion save?

Flat-color art routinely shrinks by 90 percent or more, because GIF's LZW compression thrives on runs of repeated pixels while BMP stores each one raw. The busier and noisier the image, the smaller the saving.

Can I build an animation out of my BMP files?

Not in one step — this conversion turns one bitmap into one static GIF. To animate, convert or import your BMP frames into a tool like GIMP, Photoshop, or an online GIF assembler, set the frame delays there, and export a single animated file.

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Old Paint drawings saved as BMP shrink dramatically as GIF, making Windows-era bitmaps small enough to post, email, or embed anywhere. For flat-color graphics the change is visually lossless, since GIF keeps up to 256 exact colors.

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Why convert BMP to GIF?

Publish MS Paint-era art and screenshots from old Windows machines on the modern web.
Compress clip-art archives that predate PNG without changing how they look.
Prepare frames drawn as BMPs for later assembly into a GIF animation.

Tip: GIF holds at most 256 colors — fine for Paint art, rough on photographic BMPs, which band badly; use JPG or WebP for photos.

How to convert BMP to GIF

Upload your BMP file using the area above.
GIF is preselected as the target format.
Click Start and wait for the conversion to finish.
Download your converted GIF file.

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