TIFF to BMP converter
Convert TIFF images to BMP in your browser.
Processed in your browser. This file is converted on your device and is never uploaded.
Converter
.tif, .tiff up to 50 MB. You can also drag a file here.
No file selected.
About this tool
TIFF is what scanners, fax systems, and professional imaging software produce, and no browser can display it. BMP is uncompressed and trivially simple, which is occasionally what a piece of legacy software insists on.
This tool converts TIFF to BMP entirely in your browser. The image is decoded, drawn, and re-encoded on your device, so nothing is uploaded and the size of the file costs you no waiting.
Supported formats and limits
- Input
- .tif, .tiff
- Output
- .bmp (image/bmp)
- Output name
- The original name with the new extension, for example photo.tiff becomes photo.bmp.
- File size limit
- 50 MB
- Processing
- In your browser. The file is not uploaded.
TIFF against BMP
| Feature | TIFF | BMP |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossless or lossy | None, stored as written |
| Colour | 16 bits per channel | 8 bits per channel |
| Transparency | Full alpha channel | None |
| Animation | No | No |
| Keeps EXIF | Yes | No |
| Browser support | None. This site carries its own decoder | Every browser since 1995 |
| Size of a photograph | Not a format for photographs | 8 to 20 times a JPG |
| Published | 1986 | 1990 |
When you would want this
You are going to keep editing it
TIFF discards detail every time it is encoded, so a file that has been opened and saved a few times has lost something at each step. Moving to BMP does not bring back what has already gone, but it stops the next save from taking more. Convert once, then work in BMP until you are finished.
How to use it
- Choose a .tif / .tiff file, or drag one onto the page.
- Choose the colour that replaces any transparency.
- Optionally set a width or height to resize at the same time.
- Select Convert, then download the BMP file.
Limitations
- Only the first page of a multi-page TIFF is converted, which matters because scanners commonly produce one page per sheet.
- Unusual TIFF variants, including some compressed and CMYK files, may not decode. The tool reports that rather than producing a damaged image.
- The output is uncompressed 24-bit BMP, so the file is large: roughly three bytes per pixel regardless of the picture.
- 24-bit BMP has no transparency, so transparent areas are filled with the background colour you choose.
- Metadata is not preserved. EXIF fields, including camera settings and GPS location, are dropped, which is a privacy benefit but worth knowing if you rely on them.
- Colour profiles are not preserved, so an image in a wide-gamut profile may shift slightly.
- The camera's EXIF orientation is applied, so a photo taken sideways comes out upright rather than rotated.
Common problems
The transparent background came out black or white
BMP has no alpha channel, so there is nowhere to record that a pixel was see-through. Every transparent pixel in your TIFF has to become some actual colour.
Set the background colour before converting, so the flattening happens against the colour you want rather than a default. If the transparency has to survive, convert to PNG instead of BMP.
The camera settings and GPS location are gone from the BMP
TIFF carries an EXIF block and this conversion does not move it across. The image is decoded to pixels, drawn, and encoded again as BMP, and the metadata does not survive that round trip.
Keep the original TIFF if you need those fields. If you were converting in order to strip location data before publishing, this is the behaviour you wanted.
Other ways to do this
The program already on your computer
Paint on Windows, Preview on macOS, GIMP will open a TIFF and save it as BMP, and if you have one of them installed and only one file to convert, that is a perfectly good answer. It stays on your machine the same way this does. Where it stops being convenient is a folder of forty files, or a machine you do not own.
ImageMagick, from a terminal
One command converts a directory: magick mogrify -format BMP *.TIFF. If you already have it installed this is the fastest way to do a hundred files, and it scripts. It is also a dependency to install and a syntax to learn, which is a poor trade for converting one image once.
An online converter that uploads
Most sites offering this send your file to a server, convert it there, and give you a link back. They can do formats a browser cannot, which is a real advantage. The cost is that your file was on somebody else's machine, governed by a retention policy you did not read. That is the whole difference here: this page converts TIFF to BMP using code your browser already downloaded, so there is no server holding it afterwards.
Frequently asked questions
- Is my image uploaded?
- No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser. The image never leaves your device and no request carrying it is made.
- What happens to transparent areas?
- BMP cannot store transparency, so transparent and semi-transparent pixels are composited onto the background colour before encoding. The default is white.
- Does converting to BMP lose any quality?
- The conversion itself does not. BMP is lossless, so every pixel it is handed is written exactly as it arrived and nothing is discarded on the way. What it cannot do is recover detail your TIFF had already lost before it got here: a lossless format preserves what it is given, it does not restore what is gone.
- Why can I not just open my TIFF in a browser?
- Because no browser reads TIFF — it never gained support in any of them, which is unusual for a format this old and widely used in scanning and print. This site carries its own TIFF decoder in JavaScript for exactly that reason, which is also why converting one to BMP makes it viewable anywhere at all.
- Can I resize while converting?
- Yes. Set a width, a height, or both. With proportions kept, one dimension is derived from the other, and giving both fits the image inside that box rather than distorting it.
- Do I need to install anything or create an account to use TIFF to BMP converter?
- No, to all of it. TIFF to BMP converter runs inside the browser you already have, with no sign-up, no download, no watermark on the result, and no cap on how many files you convert. There is nothing to uninstall afterwards either, because nothing was installed.
- Does TIFF to BMP converter work offline?
- Once the page has loaded, yes. The conversion runs on your device, so it needs no connection to do the work. The first visit fetches the page and the code that does the converting; after that a lost connection stops nothing, and a converted file appears exactly as it would online.
- How large a file can TIFF to BMP converter handle?
- The limit is 50 MB. It is a deliberate one rather than a technical ceiling: the real constraint is memory, and a file that decodes to more than the device can hold fails in a way that is hard to explain. Phones run out well before laptops do, which is why the limit is set where it is.
- Can I convert several files at once with TIFF to BMP converter?
- Not here: this tool takes one file at a time, because what it does depends on choices you make about that particular file. Convert them one after another, or look at the batch converters in the same category, which are built for a folder at a time.