BMP to TIFF Converter

BMP is an old Windows bitmap format that stores pixel data with little or no compression — simple, but large.

BMP dates back to the earliest versions of Microsoft Windows, where it was used as the native format for storing raw pixel grids with minimal processing overhead — appropriate for the modest CPUs of the era, but wasteful by modern standards. Because it stores pixels close to as-is, a BMP file opens instantly and never introduces compression artifacts, but it can be five to ten times larger than a JPEG of the same image. Today it mostly survives in legacy Windows software and a few specialized pipelines that specifically want uncompressed pixel data.

TIFF is a flexible, high-fidelity format favored in printing, scanning, and professional photography workflows.

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) was designed to be a container flexible enough for almost any kind of image data — multiple pages, layers, high bit depths, and either lossless compression or none at all. That flexibility is exactly why it became the standard in print production and document scanning, where color accuracy and detail matter more than file size. It's rarely seen on the web, since browsers don't render it natively and its files run large, but it remains the safe choice whenever an image needs to survive a professional print or archival pipeline untouched.