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JPG to PNG

Convert JPG and JPEG images to PNG when you need a lossless working copy, or when the tool on the other end accepts nothing but PNG.

Runs entirely in your browser. Your files never leave your device.

What converting to PNG does and does not do

The honest version first: converting a JPG to PNG does not improve the image. Whatever detail JPG compression discarded is gone, and a lossless container cannot reconstruct it. What PNG does give you is a stopping point — from this file onward every save is exact, so an image that will be cropped, annotated, and re-exported several times stops degrading a little further on each round trip through a lossy encoder.

That makes the conversion worth doing in two situations. The first is editing: bringing a photo into a workflow where it will be saved repeatedly, or layering it under graphics that need clean edges. The second is compatibility, when a design tool, a printing service, or an internal upload form lists PNG as the only format it will take. Outside those two cases the JPG is usually the better file to keep, because the PNG will be several times larger for identical pixels.

How to convert JPG to PNG

  1. 1

    Add the JPG files

    Drop in up to 20. The decoding runs in your browser, so a large batch does not queue behind anyone else.

  2. 2

    Confirm PNG as the output

    Be clear about what this does and does not do: it stops any further loss from this point on, but it cannot recover detail the original JPG already discarded. There is no way to undo lossy compression.

  3. 3

    Download the PNG

    Worth doing before an editing pass, so repeated saves do not stack more JPG artefacts on top of the ones already there.

JPG to PNG questions

No. The compression artefacts already baked into the JPG are copied faithfully into the PNG. Converting stops further loss from happening; it cannot undo loss that has already happened.

No. PNG supports transparency, but a JPG has no transparent pixels to carry over, so you get the same picture with the same opaque background. Removing a background is a separate job that needs a background remover, not a format converter.

PNG compression is lossless and photographs do not compress well losslessly. Expect the PNG to be roughly five to ten times the size of the JPG it came from — that is the price of storing every pixel exactly.

Only when the file will be edited and re-saved repeatedly, or when the destination refuses JPG outright. For storing, sharing, or publishing a photograph, JPG remains the better choice.

Yes. The image is redrawn onto a canvas before encoding, which drops camera settings, timestamps, and GPS coordinates. That is handy before sharing, but keep the original if that metadata matters to you.

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