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You can use WINJPEG (Windows), MACJPEG (MAC/OS), or PMJPEG (OS/2) to do
the conversion from .GIF to .TIF.  These programs are all out at various
Internet sites as shareware and are readily FTPable.  The cost if you
decide that you're going to keep it is, I think, something like $35 to
the address on the initial screen where it says click twice.  In spite
of their names, they do conversions to/from lots of different formats.
Be aware that, if you run the conversion on a computer with a screen
having 16 colors, even if the original is 256 or 16 million colors, you
may wind up with a dithered file, rather than a real image with the
original number of colors.  However, the price is definitely right if
you take a little care.
 
If you want to actually buy something any of the Corel Draw! starting
with version 3 have PhotoPaint included.  I believe that they also have
a separate version of PhotoPaint beginning at version 4 or 5. On the
street, you should be able to come up with one of these that costs in
the vicinity of $100 + or - a little bit.  You will not have the
dithering problem to deal with in any of these packages.
 
HTH.
 
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