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AVIF to TIFF Converter

Convert an AVIF image into a TIFF. Of the classic formats you can take an AVIF into, TIFF keeps the most of it: transparency survives, and 10-bit AVIFs become 16-bit TIFFs rather than being cut to 8 bits. The price is size — a photograph grew about ten times in testing.

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Step by step

How to convert AVIF to TIFF in 3 steps

  1. Add your AVIF file

  2. Nothing to configure

    The TIFF is lossless.

  3. Download your TIFF

Format comparison

AVIF vs TIFF

AVIF (AV1 Image File Format)

Lossy or lossless

The newest widely supported web format, built on the AV1 video codec and designed for the smallest files.

  • Usually the smallest file at a given visual quality
  • Supported by current Chrome, Edge, Firefox and Safari
  • Slow to encode, and unsupported by much older software

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format)

Lossless

A flexible container used in scanning, printing and archiving, where quality matters more than size.

  • Lossless, with high bit depths and CMYK for print
  • Standard in publishing and scanning workflows
  • Large files, and web browsers cannot display it

What survives the trip

AVIF packs several modern features into small files. Converting to an older format usually strips some of them. TIFF is unusual in keeping most:

  • Higher bit depth. AVIF can store 10 or 12 bits per channel, giving smoother gradients and more room for editing. A 10-bit AVIF converted here became a genuine 16-bit TIFF — the extra precision is kept, not rounded away. JPG and BMP would reduce it to 8 bits.
  • Transparency. The TIFF carries a full alpha channel.
  • Every decoded pixel. The TIFF is lossless, so nothing further is lost.

What does not survive is animation: an animated AVIF becomes a single still TIFF image.

What is not recovered

AVIF is almost always lossy. The TIFF preserves the image exactly as AVIF decodes it — it does not restore detail that compression discarded. What it does do is stop any further loss, which is why TIFF is a sensible working format if the image is going to be edited.

Why a simple graphic can make a surprisingly large TIFF

A measured curiosity worth knowing. The same simple three-colour graphic made a 5.9 KB TIFF when it came from a PNG, but a 13.3 KB TIFF when it came from an AVIF — more than twice as large.

The reason is lossy compression. The PNG held exactly three colours. After AVIF compression and decoding, the same image held 172 — invisible variations of those three colours scattered through flat areas. TIFF's LZW compression works by finding exact repeats, and those tiny variations break the repeats up. The file is still small, but it explains why a TIFF made from an AVIF of a logo can be larger than expected.

Quality

Quality and file size

There is no quality setting. The TIFF is a lossless record of the decoded AVIF.

File size

AVIF is one of the most efficient formats in use, and TIFF's lossless compression cannot come close on photographs. Measured: a 24 KB AVIF photo became a 232 KB TIFF, about ten times the size.

That is still considerably smaller than an uncompressed alternative — the same photo was 361 KB as a BMP.

Resolution

AVIF stores no DPI setting, so the TIFF is written at 72 DPI, the conventional default for unspecified resolution. Layout and print software use that label when placing the image. For a specific print resolution, convert to PNG, set the DPI with change image DPI, and convert the PNG to TIFF — the resolution carries across.

If the original exists

AVIF files are nearly always generated from something else: a camera photo, a design export, a website's master image. Converting that original to TIFF avoids AVIF's compression entirely and gives the best possible TIFF.

When AVIF to TIFF makes sense

  • Editing in software that does not read AVIF, while keeping the extra bit depth that makes heavy adjustments cleaner.
  • Print and publishing workflows built around TIFF.
  • Archiving, where TIFF's long history makes it safer than a format standardised in 2019.
  • Software compatibility, since AVIF is still unsupported in much desktop, office and specialist software.

TIFF or PNG?

AVIF to PNG keeps the same things — transparency and 16-bit depth — and is also lossless. Choose PNG for general use and the web; choose TIFF when a print, publishing or archive workflow specifically asks for it.

What is removed

Camera and other metadata stored in the AVIF is not carried into the TIFF, including any location data. The TIFF contains the image only.

What happens to your file

Browsers cannot write TIFF files, so this runs on our server. Your upload is deleted the moment conversion finishes, the result is deleted as you download it, and anything abandoned is swept automatically.

Privacy

What happens to your file

This tool runs on our server, so it works the same on every phone and computer. Your file is uploaded, and this is exactly what happens to it:

  • Stored outside the public web root under a random name, never under your file's name.
  • Processed, with the original upload deleted immediately — whether it succeeded or failed.
  • The result sits behind a signed link that only you receive, which stops working after 20 minutes, and the file is deleted the moment you download it.
  • Anything never collected is deleted automatically within 30 minutes.
  • The image itself is never logged or kept. If a conversion fails, we record the formats involved and the error — not the file.
  • Camera metadata, including any GPS coordinates recording where a photo was taken, is removed from the result. Only the rotation needed to show the image the right way up is kept.

Questions & answers

AVIF to TIFF: frequently asked questions

Does TIFF keep my AVIF's 10-bit colour?

Yes. A 10-bit AVIF converted here became a genuine 16-bit TIFF, so the extra precision is kept rather than rounded away. Converting to JPG or BMP would reduce it to 8 bits.

Is transparency kept?

Yes. The TIFF carries a full alpha channel, so transparent and partly transparent areas come across exactly.

Will the TIFF be higher quality than the AVIF?

No. AVIF is lossy, and the TIFF preserves the decoded image exactly without restoring discarded detail. It does stop further loss, which makes TIFF a good format to edit in.

Why is the TIFF ten times larger?

AVIF is among the most efficient formats in use, and TIFF's lossless compression cannot match it on photographs. Measured, a 24 KB AVIF photo became a 232 KB TIFF — still smaller than the 361 KB BMP of the same photo.

Why is the TIFF of my simple logo bigger than expected?

Lossy AVIF compression adds invisible colour variations. A three-colour graphic decoded from AVIF held 172 colours, which breaks up the exact repeats TIFF's compression relies on. The same graphic made a 13.3 KB TIFF from AVIF but a 5.9 KB TIFF from PNG.

What about an animated AVIF?

The TIFF is a single still image — the animation is not kept.

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