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PNG is lossless and supports transparency — the two things JPG can't do. Screenshots, UI mockups, logos, icons, diagrams, and anything with sharp edges or text should be PNG. File sizes are larger than JPG for photographic content (usually 2-5×), so PNG is a bad choice for photographs unless you specifically need lossless. Note: PNG has no metadata for camera EXIF, so converting a photo JPG → PNG loses the camera info.
GIF's 256-color palette and LZW compression produce larger files with worse color fidelity than PNG for static images. Converting to PNG preserves all 256 colors exactly (no quality loss) while potentially achieving better compression via DEFLATE with prediction filters. For animated GIFs, conversion extracts a single frame (typically the first) since PNG does not support animation natively — use APNG or WebP for animated output.
Convert static GIF to PNG for better compression and broader editing support. This is a lossless upgrade — the PNG preserves every pixel of the GIF. Most useful when you have legacy GIF images that need to enter a modern PNG-based workflow.
Technical comparison of the two formats — useful for deciding which to use, or for confirming what changes during conversion.
| Property | GIF | PNG |
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| Full name | Graphics Interchange Format | Portable Network Graphics |
| Year introduced | 1987 | 1996 |
| Developer / standard body | CompuServe | PNG Development Group / W3C |
| MIME type | image/gif | image/png |
| File extension | .gif | .png |
| Compression | Lossless (LZW) | Lossless (DEFLATE) |
| Color / data depth | 8-bit indexed (256 colors) | 24-bit truecolor + 8-bit alpha |
| Max dimensions / size | 65,535 × 65,535 px | 2,147,483,647 × 2,147,483,647 px |
| Transparency | Yes | Yes |
| Animation | Yes | APNG extension only |
| Standard / specification | GIF89a (CompuServe) | W3C / ISO/IEC 15948 |
| Best for | Short animations, simple graphics with limited colors | Logos, screenshots, graphics with transparency or sharp edges |
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