Convert TIFF to AVIF Online
Transform your large TIFF files into the compact and high-quality AVIF format. Ideal for web use and modern image delivery.
TIFF to AVIF Converter
Convert your TIFF files to AVIF format quickly and easily. Upload your file and download the result.
Max file size: 50MB
Why Convert TIFF to AVIF?
TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) is renowned for its lossless quality, making it excellent for archiving and print. However, TIFF files are often very large. AVIF (AV1 Image File Format) is a next-generation format offering significantly better compression than older formats like JPG or even WebP, while maintaining high visual fidelity. Converting TIFF to AVIF allows you to drastically reduce file size, making images more suitable for web distribution, faster loading times, and reduced storage/bandwidth usage, without a major sacrifice in perceived quality.
Benefits of Converting TIFF to AVIF
- Superior Compression: AVIF provides much smaller file sizes compared to TIFF for similar visual quality.
- High Quality: Supports both lossy and lossless compression, HDR, wide color gamut, and transparency.
- Web Optimization: Smaller files lead to faster website loading times and better user experience.
- Modern Format: Increasingly supported by modern browsers and image tools.
- Royalty-Free: Based on the open AV1 video codec.
TIFF vs. AVIF Format Differences
| Feature | TIFF | AVIF |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossless or Uncompressed | Lossy or Lossless (Highly Efficient) |
| File Size | Very Large | Very Small |
| Quality | Excellent (Lossless) | Excellent (even with lossy compression) |
| Transparency | Yes (Alpha Channel) | Yes |
| HDR / Wide Gamut | Yes (depends on profile) | Yes |
| Browser Support | Very Limited (natively) | Growing (Chrome, Firefox, Opera) |
| Best Use Case | Archiving, Print, Professional Graphics | Web Images (high quality, small size) |
When converting from lossless TIFF to AVIF using lossy compression (which is common for web use), some quality loss is expected, but AVIF's efficiency aims to minimize this perceptual difference while maximizing file size reduction. Lossless AVIF is also an option if absolute fidelity is required, though file sizes will be larger than lossy AVIF.
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Frequently Asked Questions
Is AVIF better quality than TIFF?
Lossless TIFF offers perfect, uncompressed (or losslessly compressed) quality. AVIF can also be lossless, offering comparable quality, but its main strength is providing excellent *perceptual* quality at much smaller file sizes using lossy compression. For archiving the absolute original data, TIFF is often preferred. For web delivery, AVIF usually provides a better balance of quality and file size.
Will I lose quality converting TIFF to AVIF?
If you choose lossy AVIF compression (recommended for web use), there will be some data loss, but AVIF is designed to minimize the visual impact. If you choose lossless AVIF, no quality will be lost, but the file size reduction compared to TIFF might be less dramatic.
Can AVIF handle transparency like TIFF?
Yes, AVIF supports alpha channel transparency, just like TIFF and PNG.