TIFF to AVIF

Go from the largest image format to one of the smallest. Lossless TIFF sources make especially clean AVIF files.

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Max 250 MB each · up to 20 files

TIFF to AVIF for portfolios and galleries

If you're a photographer or you manage an image archive, you want your work to look its best online, and you also want it to load quickly. This TIFF to AVIF converter gets you both: AVIF holds an impressive amount of detail at very small sizes, and a clean lossless TIFF is the ideal starting point for it.

Unlike converting from JPG, there are no earlier compression artifacts to preserve here, so AVIF can spend its limited data on real detail.

How to convert TIFF to AVIF

Try one or two images first to find the right quality setting, and then convert the rest.

  1. 1

    Add your TIFF masters

    Pick the .tif or .tiff files you want on the web. A run can include twenty.

  2. 2

    Choose an AVIF quality

    Start at around 65 to 75. Because the TIFF source is clean, AVIF has plenty of real detail to work with.

  3. 3

    Encode and wait

    Press Convert to AVIF. Large scans can take a while, because all of the work happens on your own computer.

  4. 4

    Review and download

    Zoom in on some fine details, compare, and then save the AVIF files.

Suggested settings

Image typeQualityNotes
Fine art and portfolio photos70–85Keeps subtle texture
Documentary or archive images60–75Good balance with big savings
Scanned text pages75–85Check that small letters stay crisp
Background images40–60Soft detail is acceptable

What's kept, and what isn't

  • Kept: full pixel dimensions and transparency, if the decoded image has it.
  • Reduced: bit depth, which drops to 8 bits per channel for processing.
  • Converted: color, which moves to standard screen color. CMYK files can shift a little, so check any brand-critical colors.
  • Removed: metadata, including EXIF, IPTC and scanner details. Keep your master if you rely on those.

Serving AVIF on your website

All current major browsers display AVIF, including Safari 16 and later. For complete coverage, use the HTML picture element to provide a fallback, which you can make using TIFF to WEBP or TIFF to JPG. Those two are also a good idea when you need something faster to encode.

Always hold on to the TIFF. AVIF is a delivery format, and future edits, prints and reformats should go back to your master file.

Free and on your own device

Nothing is sent to any server, and that protects unpublished work. There's no account and no watermark. Files can be up to 250 MB, subject to the memory on your device.

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Frequently asked questions

The saving is enormous, frequently over 98% at sensible settings. A 60 MB photo might become an AVIF of just a few hundred kilobytes at full resolution.
A big TIFF means millions of pixels, and AVIF analyzes them closely to save space. It all happens on your device, so a laptop will handle it better than a phone.
Usually, yes. A 6000-pixel image is much larger than almost any screen requires. Scale it down with Resize Image to speed up the encoding and shrink the result still further.
No. The browser works in 8 bits per channel, so high-bit-depth detail is reduced during decoding. That's fine for web images, but keep the TIFF for print and further editing.
Only the first page is converted.
No. They stay on your device from start to finish.

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