Why does my image look different?

GIF only holds 256 colors per frame. PNGs with lots of colors or smooth gradients get downsampled. That's the format, not a bug.

Is transparency kept?

GIF does 1-bit transparency: on or off, never semi-transparent. Smooth alpha edges from your PNG will look jagged.

PNG to GIF

Converts PNG to GIF, which caps at 256 colors.

What this does

This decodes each PNG and quantizes it to a 256-color palette, then encodes a single-frame GIF. PNGs with many colors or smooth gradients get downsampled to fit GIF's 256-color cap, which can shift colors and introduce banding.

How it works

1Drop your PNG images.
2Each one gets quantized to a 256-color palette and encoded as GIF.
3Download each one, or grab them all as a zip.

Built with open source

gifenc — Fast GIF encoding with color quantization. · MIT

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