WebP to TIFF Converter — Convert WebP to TIFF Online
Has a print shop, an archive, or a prepress tool asked for a TIFF? Drop your WebP below and pick TIFF as the output format. Free, private, and entirely in your browser with no upload required.
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Supports HEIC, WEBP, AVIF, BMP, TIFF, SVG, GIF, ICO, PDF, JPG, PNG
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When to Use TIFF Over WebP
These two formats were built for opposite ends of an image's life. WebP exists to make web pages load quickly, and it is excellent at it. TIFF exists to be read, reliably, by professional software decades after it was written. Convert when your image is leaving the browser for one of these:
- Print and prepress: commercial printers, RIP software, and layout tools like InDesign and QuarkXPress expect TIFF for placed images. Many will not import a WebP at all.
- Archival storage: uncompressed TIFF is the long-term preservation standard used by libraries and museums, chosen because its simple, stable structure will still be readable long after today's codecs are forgotten.
- Professional editing: TIFF is a native, fully supported format in Photoshop, Affinity Photo, and GIMP, and is the usual choice for a master file.
- Scientific and technical imaging: microscopy, GIS, and lab pipelines standardise on TIFF for its metadata support and high bit depths.
- A tool that simply refuses WebP: the format is only widely supported inside browsers. Plenty of desktop and industrial software never learned to read it.
If none of those apply, TIFF is the wrong destination and you should keep the WebP — or, if you need something a little more portable that is still compressed, use WebP to PNG for a lossless copy or WebP to JPG for a small one. The image format by use case guide names a target for each job.
TIFF for Print vs Web Workflows
Print and prepress
This is what TIFF is for. The format handles high bit depths, embedded colour profiles, and CMYK separations, which is exactly why print shops ask for it, and its uncompressed variant leaves nothing for a RIP to misinterpret. Two honest caveats about the file this tool produces: it is 8-bit sRGB rather than CMYK, and its header records 72 DPI. Neither is usually a problem — most printers accept sRGB and convert to CMYK in their own colour-managed workflow, and DPI is a note about intended physical size rather than a property of the pixels. Set the real output resolution in your layout software, and let the shop handle the colour conversion unless they have asked you to do it.
Web workflows
Never ship a TIFF to a website. Chrome and Firefox will not display one at all — a visitor gets a broken image icon — and while Safari renders TIFF natively, that only makes the failure inconsistent. Even where it works, you would be serving several megabytes where WebP would have served a few dozen kilobytes. The direction of travel on the web is the other way entirely: it is why sites convert into WebP, not out of it. Keep the original WebP for anything with a URL, and treat the TIFF as the copy you hand to a press or a repository.
Expect a much larger file
The TIFF written here is uncompressed, so its size is fixed by the image's dimensions alone — three bytes per pixel, or four if the WebP carries transparency:
| Dimensions | Typical source | TIFF size |
|---|---|---|
| 800 × 600 | Small web image | 1.4 MB |
| 1280 × 720 | 720p | 2.6 MB |
| 1920 × 1080 | 1080p | 5.9 MB |
| 2560 × 1440 | 1440p | 10.5 MB |
| 3840 × 2160 | 4K | 23.7 MB |
| 4032 × 3024 | 12 MP phone photo | 34.9 MB |
Those figures are arithmetic, not estimates. The WebP you started with was probably a few hundred kilobytes, so a twenty- or fiftyfold increase is normal and is not a sign that anything went wrong. It is the whole point: you are trading disk space for a format that professional tools will not argue with.
How to Convert WebP to TIFF on Mac, Windows, and Linux
The converter above works on any of the three and needs nothing installed: drop the WebP in, choose TIFF from the Output Format menu, and download the result. There is no quality slider because there is no compression to tune. If you would rather use software you already have, here is the shortest route on each platform.
macOS
Open the WebP in Preview, then choose File → Export and pick TIFF from the Format menu. Preview has read WebP since macOS 11 Big Sur; on anything older it will refuse the file. For a folder of them, the built-in sips command is quicker: sips -s format tiff photo.webp --out photo.tiff.
Windows
Open the WebP in Paint, then File → Save as → Other formats and choose TIFF in the “Save as type” list. Windows 11 reads WebP out of the box; on Windows 10 you may need the free WebP Image Extensions package from the Microsoft Store before Paint and Photos will open the file at all. Paint flattens transparency onto white, so if your WebP has an alpha channel you want to keep, use the converter above instead.
Linux
ImageMagick handles it in one line — magick photo.webp photo.tiff on version 7, or convert photo.webp photo.tiff on version 6, provided the build includes the WebP delegate. Add -compress lzw for a losslessly compressed TIFF, which shrinks flat graphics a great deal and photographs only a little. If you prefer a GUI, GIMP opens WebP directly and exports TIFF through File → Export As.
Whichever route you take, the conversion is reversible — both formats can hold the same pixels losslessly, so you can go back with a TIFF to PNG conversion, or flatten to a small shareable copy with TIFF to JPG.
Frequently Asked Questions
Why convert WebP to TIFF?
Because the file is leaving the web. WebP was designed by Google to make pages load faster, and it is very good at that — but printers, prepress software, scientific pipelines, and digital archives were built around TIFF and often will not accept anything else. You are not converting for quality here, you are converting because the tool on the other end of the request reads TIFF. If your image is staying on a website, keep the WebP.
Does converting WebP to TIFF lose quality?
The conversion itself adds no loss. The TIFF this tool writes is uncompressed, so it stores exactly the pixels your browser decoded from the WebP. What it cannot do is recover detail that was already thrown away: most WebP files on the web are lossy, and those compression artifacts are part of the pixels by the time anything reads them. The TIFF is a faithful, much larger copy — not a restored one. A WebP saved losslessly converts with no loss at any stage.
Why is the TIFF so much bigger than the WebP?
Because this converter writes an uncompressed TIFF. WebP works hard to predict pixels from their neighbours; an uncompressed TIFF simply writes all of them out at three bytes each, so its size depends on the image's dimensions and nothing else. A 1920×1080 image is about 5.9 MB whether it is a photograph or a blank white rectangle. Growing by a factor of twenty or more over the WebP is the normal, expected outcome and is the price of a format that prepress and archival software trusts.
Does the TIFF keep transparency?
Yes. If your WebP has an alpha channel, the converter writes a 32-bit RGBA TIFF and the transparency survives intact. If every pixel is opaque it writes a smaller 24-bit RGB TIFF instead, because an unnecessary alpha channel costs a byte per pixel and some print software objects to it. This is a real advantage over BMP, which has no alpha channel at all and has to flatten transparency onto white.
Is the TIFF CMYK, and will my print shop accept it?
It is RGB, not CMYK, and it carries no embedded ICC profile. That is fine for the great majority of jobs — most print shops and print-on-demand services accept sRGB files and handle the conversion to CMYK themselves as part of their own colour-managed workflow. If your printer has specifically asked for CMYK separations or a particular profile, do that conversion in Photoshop, Affinity Photo, or GIMP after this step; a browser cannot produce CMYK.
What DPI is the converted TIFF?
72 DPI, which is simply what the header says because a WebP does not carry a meaningful print resolution for the converter to preserve. DPI is only a note about intended physical size — it does not change a single pixel. What actually determines print quality is pixel dimensions: a 3000×2400 image prints cleanly at 10×8 inches because that works out to 300 pixels per inch. Set the output resolution in your layout or print software, where it belongs.
Will an animated WebP stay animated?
No. WebP can hold an animation, but a baseline TIFF like this one stores a single still image, so converting an animated WebP gives you its first frame. If you need to keep the motion, convert to GIF instead.
Are my files uploaded to a server?
No. The conversion runs entirely in your browser — your browser's own WebP decoder reads the file, and the TIFF is assembled in JavaScript on your machine. Nothing is uploaded, there is no sign-up, no watermark, and no file limit, which also means confidential or client artwork never leaves your computer.