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JPG to GIF Converter

Turn a photo into a GIF, with the palette built from the image itself.

Drop a JPG here, or click to choose one

Converted on your device — the image is never uploaded

Result

Quick Tool Overview

The JPG to GIF Converter turns a photo into a GIF, quantising a palette from the image itself and telling you honestly what the format costs in colour and file size.

What it does
Converts a photo to a single-frame GIF
You give it
A JPG, PNG, WebP or BMP
You get back
A GIF with a palette built from your image
Best for
Places that accept nothing but GIF
Converters Free, unlimited use No sign-up Runs in your browser

About the JPG to GIF Converter

Some places still take nothing but GIF: an old forum, a legacy CMS, a piece of software written before WebP existed. Converting a photograph to it means squeezing millions of colours down to 256, and doing that badly leaves skies banded and faces blotchy.

Drop a JPG — or a PNG, WebP or BMP — and the palette is quantised from your own image rather than taken from a fixed table, so the colours that actually matter in this photo are the ones that survive. Choose 256 colours for the best quality or fewer for a smaller file and a deliberately poster-like look, and resize at the same time. The page is honest about the result: it tells you how many colours the original had, and says plainly when the GIF ends up larger than the JPEG you started with, which for a photograph it often does.

Key features of the JPG to GIF Converter

A palette from your photo

Quantised from the actual colours, not a fixed table.

Colour count you choose

256 for quality, or fewer for a smaller, poster-like result.

Resize at the same time

The quickest way to make a GIF smaller.

Honest about the trade

It says when the GIF is bigger than the JPEG you started with.

Works offline

The encoder is part of the page — no library is fetched.

How to use the JPG to GIF Converter

  1. 1

    Drop your photo in

    JPG, PNG, WebP or BMP — all are accepted.

  2. 2

    Choose the colour count

    256 for the best quality, fewer for a smaller file.

  3. 3

    Resize if you need to

    A smaller GIF is a much smaller file.

  4. 4

    Download the GIF

    Check the preview first — banding shows up there.

Frequently asked questions

Because GIF allows only 256 colours in an image, and a photograph has tens of thousands. Gradients such as skies show the steps. That is a limit of the format itself.

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