Converts a GIF to a JPEG still. Sensible when the GIF is a photograph that someone saved in the wrong format; less so for line art, which JPEG handles poorly.
Suits photographs, not graphics
A GIF holding flat-colour graphics, a logo or a diagram is the opposite case: JPEG's compression produces visible ringing around every hard edge, and the file may not even be smaller because the palette-based GIF was already efficient for that kind of content. Convert those to PNG or WebP instead.
Transparency, and the black background problem
The naive implementation draws the image onto a fresh canvas and encodes it. A fresh canvas is transparent black, so those pixels come out black — and "my logo has a black box around it" is the single most-reported bug in every image converter that exists.
Here the canvas is filled with your chosen background first, white by default. Set it to whatever the image will sit on: #ffffff for a page, #000000 for a dark one, or any CSS colour.
Animation stops at the first frame
Other names for this
Also searched as “convert gif to jpeg”.
Questions
- My graphic looks blurry now.
- JPEG rings around hard edges. Flat-colour graphics should become PNG or WebP, not JPEG.
- Is the animation kept?
- No — the first frame is used, and the tool says how many there were.
- What happened to the transparent parts?
- JPEG has no transparency, so they became your chosen background colour — white by default.
- Can I convert a whole folder of images?
- Yes. Drop as many files as you like, or a whole folder. Each keeps its original name with the new extension —
IMG_4032.heicbecomesIMG_4032.jpg, neverconverted_1.jpg— and you can download them individually or as a ZIP. - Are my photos uploaded?
- No. The decoding and re-encoding happen in this tab using the browser’s own image support. Photos are personal in a way most files are not, and none of them is transmitted. Turn your Wi-Fi off and the converter keeps working.