GIF limits colors to 256. PNG doesn't. If your GIF is a logo, screenshot, or diagram that looks washed out, PNG replaces it with perfect colors and real alpha transparency.
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Supports GIF
Supports GIF
Drop .gif files — static single-frame or animated. Animated GIFs export the first frame as PNG.
GIF's 256-color indexed palette expands to 24-bit truecolor. Alpha transparency upgrades from 1-bit binary to 8-bit channel.
Output carries original dimensions plus full color fidelity. File may be smaller or larger than GIF depending on content complexity.
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CompuServe Graphics Interchange Format
8-bit RGB PseudoColor with up to 256 palette entries. Specify the format GIF87 to write the older version 87a of the format. Use -transparent-color to specify the GIF transparent color (e.g. -transparent-color wheat).
Portable Network Graphics
Requires libpng-1.0.11 or later, libpng-1.2.5 or later recommended. The PNG specification does not support pixels-per-inch units, only pixels-per-centimeter. To avoid reading a particular associated image profile, use -define profile:skip=name (e.g. profile:skip=ICC).
Animated GIFs, color limits, transparency, file size.
