JPG to PNG Converter
Convert JPG photos to PNG before you edit, cut out or annotate them, so every later save keeps the picture exactly as it is.
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85 keeps photos visually identical to the original. Lower it only when you need a smaller file.
JPG, BMP and EPS have no transparency. Transparent pixels are filled with this color.
Hex color used behind transparent pixels, e.g. #FFFFFF.
This format holds a single image. Choose GIF or WebP output if you want to keep the animation.
A multi-size icon contains several resolutions in one file; browsers and operating systems pick the one they need.
Keep the original dimensions, or enter one side and the aspect ratio is kept.
Pixels for the side you chose above.
Percentage of the original dimensions.
sRGB is right for screens and the web. Keep the original for print workflows; grayscale discards color.
Metadata only, 0 keeps the original value. Printers and some portals read this number; it does not change pixel dimensions.
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Should I convert my JPG to PNG?
Yes, if you are about to edit, cut out or add text to the picture. For simply sharing a photo, the JPG is already the better file.
- Output
- PNG
- Compression
- Lossless
- Later saves
- No further loss
Reasons to turn a JPG into a PNG
JPG is excellent for storing and sharing photos, but it is a lossy format. Every time an editor saves a JPG, it compresses the whole picture again and discards a little more detail. One save is invisible. Ten rounds of edits, crops and saves leave soft edges, blotchy skies and halos around text.
Converting to PNG at the start of a project stops that. PNG is lossless, so you can open, change and save the file as often as you like and the untouched parts stay exactly as they were. Designers do this before placing a photo in a layout, and teachers and students do it before adding labels or arrows to a picture.
The other common reason is transparency. A JPG cannot have a see-through background, but a PNG can. If you plan to remove the background of a product shot or a portrait, a PNG is the format that can hold the result.
JPG versus PNG
JPG
JPG photo
The photo format standardized by the JPEG committee in the early 1990s and still the safest way to share a picture. It stores one still image with lossy compression and has no transparent areas. Phones, cameras, office software, printers and web forms all read it.
- Lossy
- No transparency
- Still images only
PNG
PNG image
An open raster format the PNG Development Group published in 1996 as a patent-free replacement for GIF. Compression is lossless and a full alpha channel keeps soft edges and cutouts clean. It suits screenshots, logos and interface graphics; photos come out much larger than as JPG.
- Lossless
- Transparency
- Still images only
Why convertJPG to PNG is the editing direction: the file gets bigger, but it stops losing quality and gains room for transparency. Choose it for working copies, cutouts and annotated images. To go back to a small file for sharing at the end, use PNG to JPG.
The conversion itself is exact. The decoder reads the JPG into pixels, and PNG writes those pixels with no further compression loss. Any blur or block pattern the JPG already had is copied faithfully, because there is no way to recover information the JPEG encoder threw away.
File size grows, often by several times for a camera photo. That is the cost of lossless storage, and it is why PNG is a working format here, not a sharing format. If a JPG came from a website as .jpeg or .jfif, the result is the same: all of these extensions hold JPEG data.
Text and line work are a third case. Captions, arrows, highlight boxes and screenshots pasted into a photo all have hard edges, and JPG compression leaves faint noise around them. In a PNG those additions stay clean, which matters for slides, tutorials and printed handouts.
PNG as a long-term format
How PNG became a standard
PNG was created in the mid-1990s as a patent-free replacement for GIF and has been standardized by the W3C, the IETF and ISO since then. Its third edition from 2025 added official support for HDR color and animated PNG, while staying readable by older software.
That long record makes PNG a safe format for files you will keep. A PNG master copy of an edited image will open in practically any program for many years, and you can always export a JPG from it whenever you need a small file.
Colors stay the same as well. The embedded color profile is copied into the PNG, so an image prepared on a wide-gamut screen does not shift when it opens in another editor. Orientation is applied, so photos taken in portrait mode open upright.
Getting the most out of the PNG
Convert from the best JPG you have. A photo straight from the camera or phone holds more detail than a copy that has been sent through a messaging app, which recompresses images to save data. Starting from the original gives the PNG more to preserve.
If the PNG is too large for your editor or the project does not need full resolution, set a width or longest side under Resize output. For square app or website icons, JPG to ICO builds the icon file directly, and the Image Converter covers every other target.
Uploads are deleted once the PNGs are written, and the PNGs 30 minutes later, so save them straight into your project folder.
Do
- Convert to PNG before you edit, annotate or remove a background.
- Export a final JPG from the PNG when you need a small file to send.
Avoid
- Converting to PNG to fix blur or blockiness; the damage is already in the pixels.
- Uploading large PNG photos where a JPG would do, such as social posts and email.
How to convert JPG to PNG
Add your JPG files
Drop up to 20 .jpg or .jpeg images on the box above, or press Choose Files.
Keep PNG selected
PNG is preset. It is lossless, so there is no quality setting; Resize output under Advanced settings is optional.
Convert and download
Press Convert to PNG and save the new files.
JPG to PNG questions
Does converting JPG to PNG make the image sharper?
No. The PNG shows exactly what the JPG shows, including any compression blur. What changes is that the picture stops losing detail each time you edit and save it.
Will the PNG have a transparent background after converting from JPG?
Not by itself. A JPG has no transparency, so the PNG starts fully opaque. PNG lets you add transparency afterwards, for example by removing the background in an editor.
Why is the PNG several times bigger than my JPG?
PNG stores every pixel without loss, and the fine texture in a photo packs poorly that way. The extra bytes preserve the current pixels exactly; they do not add new detail.
Do I need PNG to upload a picture to a website?
Usually not. Most sites take JPG for photos. Convert to PNG when a site or app asks for it specifically, or when the image is a graphic, logo or screenshot.
Can I convert .jpeg files on this JPG to PNG page?
Yes. .jpeg, .jpg, .jpe and .jfif are all the same JPEG format, and the converter accepts every one of them.
Does JPG to PNG keep the camera details of the photo?
Location and camera data are removed by default; the color profile is kept. Untick Strip metadata under Advanced settings to carry the EXIF details over.
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