How much quality disappears going from TIFF to GIF?

For photographs and continuous-tone scans, a lot: the image drops to 256 colors and usually to screen resolution, so treat the GIF as a preview, never a replacement. Black-and-white line art and text scans, on the other hand, survive the palette squeeze almost perfectly.

My TIFF has multiple pages — what does the GIF contain?

The first page. GIF's multi-image capability is for animation frames, not document pages, and converters don't map one to the other. For a multi-page scanned document, PDF is the format that keeps the pages together.

Why make a GIF instead of just sending the TIFF?

Because the recipient can actually see it. TIFFs run to hundreds of megabytes, get rejected by mail servers, and won't preview inline in most chat and webmail clients — a GIF a few hundred kilobytes in size renders instantly everywhere.

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Turning a TIFF scan into a GIF creates a tiny, universally viewable preview of a print-quality original for quick sharing in chat or email. It is a proofing move, not an archival one — 256 colors and screen resolution replace the TIFF's full fidelity.

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Why convert TIFF to GIF?

Send lightweight proofs of scanned documents or artwork where a multi-hundred-megabyte TIFF would bounce.
Post scans to old forums, wikis, and intranet pages that render GIF without plugins.
Generate thumbnails for asset catalogs while the master TIFFs stay in cold storage.

Tip: Line art and text scans survive the 256-color squeeze well; color photographs band visibly — use JPG or WebP for photographic previews instead.

How to convert TIFF to GIF

Upload your TIFF 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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