Convert GIF to BMP

No — BMP has no alpha channel, so transparent regions are composited against a background colour, white unless you change it. That is the single most common surprise in this conversion: a logo that looked clean on a dark page arrives with a white box around it. Set the matte colour to match wherever the image will sit, or choose a target that keeps alpha. BMP is gigantic — a 12-megapixel photo is around 36 MB — and no browser treats it as a sane web format.

Only the first frame survives, because BMP is a still format with nowhere to store the rest. If the animation matters, target a format that animates, or convert to a video container instead and keep the motion.

No pixel data, no. Both formats store the image without lossy compression, so the picture that comes out is identical to the one that went in and the conversion can be repeated indefinitely. What changes is file size, and which features travel — colour depth, embedded profiles, layers and animation are all supported unevenly between lossless formats. GIF is lossless but capped at a 256-colour palette per frame, using LZW compression and single-colour binary transparency. BMP usually stores completely uncompressed pixel rows with a small header, which is why it is so simple to parse.

Transparency survives when going to PNG, WebP, TIFF, GIF, or SVG. Converting to JPG flattens the alpha channel against a white background — if you need transparency, target a transparency-aware format instead of BMP.

Embedded ICC color profiles are read from the source GIF and re-attached to the BMP output where the format supports it (JPG, PNG, TIFF, WebP). Formats without profile support fall back to sRGB.

Camera EXIF (ISO, shutter, lens, GPS) is preserved by default during GIF → BMP conversion when both formats support metadata. Use the privacy option to strip metadata before download if you want to share images without geolocation.

Yes — drag multiple GIF files into the upload zone and we queue them in parallel. Free users get 100MB per file; Premium has no per-file cap and runs more parallel workers, so a 200-image batch typically finishes in under two minutes.

For straightforward format conversion we run the same libpng / libjpeg-turbo / libwebp / ImageMagick pipelines a desktop editor uses, with the same quality. The difference is that desktop tools open one file at a time; we accept a batch and run them in parallel.

Default behaviour is 1:1 — your BMP output has the same pixel dimensions as the source GIF. Use a separate /resize-image/ step after conversion if you need to downscale or upscale as part of the workflow.

For JPG / WebP, quality 75-85 typically gets the file 60-80% smaller than the source GIF with no visible difference at normal viewing distance. For lossless targets (PNG, TIFF), expect smaller savings — usually 5-30% via better deflate / LZW compression.

Yes — uploaded GIF files are processed in isolated workers and deleted within minutes. We never read, store, or share the pixel data. The full privacy policy and retention window are documented at /privacy/.