Almost any modern graphics editor can open and work with DDS graphics (DirectDraw surface) and of course also save it to some other graphic format. If you do not have access to some professional graphics tool, downloading the free Paint.NET or GIMP should be sufficient for your needs and allow you to save your .dds files as .gif files.
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Conversion of dds file format to gif file format beta
Search for dds to gif converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert DirectDraw surface data to Graphics interchange file format.
We have found 3 software records in our database eligible for .dds to .gif file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software - convert dds to gif on Windows
Adobe Photoshop
One of the best bitmap graphic editing program
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
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Convert from dds file | No | Yes | No | No | No | No | No | No |
to gif file | No | Yes | Yes | gif editor | No | No | No | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned dds to gif. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Paint.NET
A free photo and image editor
Multiplatform software - convert dds to gif on any platform
XnConvert
A cross-platform batch image transcoder compatible with 500 picture image formats
Additional links: Open dds file, Open gif file
DDS
Files with dds extension can be usually encontered as 3D textures from DirectDraw Surface format.
GIF
Files with gif extension are one of the most common bitmap image file formats available on the Internet. Maximum number of colors is 256. This format supports also simple animations and is widely used for banners or fun animations.
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