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If you’ve been online for more than, say, five minutes, you’ve seen a GIF. Those tiny loops? Under the hood it’s a bitmap format that works with a palette per frame—at most 256 colors. Data is packed with LZW, which is lossless, so saving doesn’t smear the pixels. Back in 1987, CompuServe published the first spec, GIF87a. Then 1989 brought GIF89a with a simple 1-bit transparency trick and basic multi-frame animation. Small files, easy sharing, good-enough color—no wonder GIF became the early web’s workhorse and it’s still hanging around.
BMP is a Windows-born raster format that stores pixel data in a very direct layout—usually uncompressed or with simple RLE. That makes files easy to read and edit, though typically larger. It supports a wide range of color depths, from 1-bit monochrome and 8-bit palettes to 24/32-bit true color, with optional alpha in some variants. It’s common in legacy pipelines, device captures, and cases where maximum compatibility or raw pixel fidelity is preferred.
Q: How does the converter work?
A: We convert GIF images to BMP format while preserving quality.
Q: Is it secure?
A: Files are removed after 1 hour for your safety.