PSD to AVIF Converter

Convert PSD to AVIF Online

AVIF is a still image wrapped in the AV1 video codec's intra-frame compression, standardised by the Alliance for Open Media and carried in a HEIF-style container. For a flattened Photoshop document that is a good trade: you get a much smaller web-delivery file than a JPG at comparable quality, and — unlike JPG — the alpha channel from your PSD survives intact.

This converter reads the flattened composite stored inside the .psd, so layers, masks, adjustment layers and live type are merged into one picture before encoding. Keep the original .psd as your editable master; think of the AVIF as the published copy.

How to Convert PSD to AVIF

1. Upload Your PSD File: Drag and drop the .psd onto the page or click "+ Add Files" to browse. Several files can be queued and converted in one batch with the same settings. .psb (Large Document Format) files are not accepted — flatten and re-save one as a standard .psd first.
2. Set the Quality Preset: Under Image Compression, choose a Quality Preset. Very High (Recommended) is the selected default, and the ladder runs Highest, Very High, High, Medium, Low, Very Low, Lowest. On AVIF this rung also decides chroma subsampling, which is covered in the table below.
3. Cap the Size or Change the Resolution (Optional): Switch from Quality Preset to Specific file size to give a hard target in Bytes / Kilobytes / Megabytes, leaving Auto Scale on so the converter may also reduce dimensions to reach it. Separately, Image resolution starts on Keep original and offers Resolution Percentage, Preset Resolutions, Width, Height and Width x Height for downscaling a large design to web dimensions.
4. Convert and Download: Click Convert and save the .avif. No sign-up, no watermark.

What Each Quality Preset Does on AVIF

The preset maps to a single quality value, and that value also determines whether the encoder keeps full-resolution colour. libvips disables chroma subsampling automatically at quality 90 and above, so the top three rungs write 4:4:4 and everything below drops to 4:2:0.

That 4:4:4 to 4:2:0 step at High versus Medium matters more for design exports than for photographs. Flat-colour artwork, coloured type and thin UI strokes are exactly the content 4:2:0 damages, which is why High is usually the right floor for a mockup and Medium is fine for a product shot.

AVIF Against the Other Flat Exports of a PSD

Frequently Asked Questions

Does converting PSD to AVIF keep my transparency?

Yes, and unlike JPG it is genuinely preserved rather than matted. We put a PSD with fully transparent corners through this path and read the output back: the corner pixels came out with an alpha value of zero, and the file contained two AV1 images — the colour picture plus a separate single-channel monochrome image holding the alpha, which is how AVIF stores an alpha channel. Because transparency survives, this page shows no background-colour control; there is nothing to matte onto.

Will an AVIF really be smaller than a JPG or PNG of the same PSD?

Usually by a wide margin, but check rather than assume. Across the PSD sources we measured, AVIF landed at roughly half the size of the JPG written at the same preset, and dramatically under a PNG of the same artwork. The exception is heavy grain or sensor noise: one deliberately grainy source in our set came out larger as AVIF than as JPG at every preset, because grain is high-frequency detail that AV1 spends bits reproducing faithfully. Flat design work, mockups, UI and product renders — the things people usually export from Photoshop — compress extremely well.

If my Photoshop file is 16-bit, do I get a 10-bit or HDR AVIF?

No. AVIF the format supports 10- and 12-bit and HDR, but this conversion writes 8 bits per channel. We confirmed it by putting a 16-bit RGBA PSD through the pipeline: the AVIF came back at 8 bits per sample, the same as from an 8-bit source. Practically that is what you want for the web anyway — no mainstream browser pipeline benefits from a 10-bit still on an SDR page — but if a downstream tool genuinely needs more than 8 bits, keep the .psd as the master and hand that over instead.

Why is there no Lossless, speed or bit-depth setting on this page?

Because none of them apply here. The Lossless toggle is a WebP control, the compression-level and encode-speed dropdowns belong to the PNG pipeline, and the bit-depth selector belongs to formats like the Netpbm family. On a PSD to AVIF conversion the only things that change the output are the Quality Preset (or a Specific file size target) and the Image resolution — which is why the page deliberately shows a short options panel rather than a long list of controls that would do nothing.

Which browsers and apps can open an AVIF file?

Per caniuse.com, AVIF reaches about 94.7% of global users: Chrome 85+, Opera 71+, Firefox 93+, Edge 121+ and Safari 16.4+ all decode it, with Safari 16.1 through 16.3 offering partial support. Recent macOS, iOS, Android and Windows builds show AVIF in their system image viewers. MDN still recommends serving it inside a <picture> element with a fallback, and notes AVIF has no progressive rendering — the whole file must arrive before anything is drawn. For a copy that opens absolutely anywhere with no fallback logic, use PSD to JPG.

Does the AVIF keep my colour profile, and what happens to a CMYK document?

Embedded metadata is carried through: a PSD with an ICC profile produced an AVIF containing both an EXIF block and the ICC profile when we read the output back. A CMYK Photoshop document is a different story — the pixels are converted to sRGB during the flatten, which is a one-way plain colourspace conversion. If precise colour matters for a press-bound file, do the CMYK to RGB conversion in Photoshop where you control the rendering intent, then upload the RGB version.

Can I hit an exact file size, for example a 200 KB image budget?

Yes. Switch from Quality Preset to Specific file size, enter your target in Kilobytes, and keep Auto Scale enabled. The converter searches for the quality value that lands closest under the target, and with Auto Scale on it may also step the pixel dimensions down when quality alone cannot reach it. Turn Auto Scale off if the output must stay at the exact pixel dimensions you asked for — in that case the quality will drop further to compensate.

How is my file handled while it converts?

Your .psd is uploaded over an encrypted connection, flattened and re-encoded on our servers, and deleted automatically after a few hours — no sign-up, no watermark, never shared or made public. Practically, the ceiling is upload size and time rather than anything about the format: a standard .psd tops out around 30,000 pixels on a side, and larger artwork saved as .psb has to be flattened back to a .psd before it can be uploaded here. If you need an alpha-safe export that opens in older software too, PSD to PNG is the conservative alternative.