Photo to JPG Converter

A photo can reach you in many formats. iPhones save HEIC, some Android phones save HEIF, screenshots and edited pictures are often PNG, photos downloaded from social networks may be WebP, scanners produce TIFF, and cameras can record RAW files such as CR3, NEF or ARW. On your own device they all look like photos.

Print services see it differently. Online print shops, photo kiosks in stores and photo book editors almost always ask for JPG, and some accept nothing else. A HEIC or WebP file may be rejected at upload, or accepted and then printed with wrong colors or the wrong way round.

Converting to JPG first avoids those surprises. This page is set up for prints rather than for sharing, with a higher quality than usual and every setting that affects how the photo looks turned toward accuracy.

It also helps with photo books. Book editors place each picture on a page and print it at a size you choose, so a file that converts cleanly and carries its color profile gives predictable results across all pages, even when the photos came from different phones and cameras.

A common target for photo prints is 300 dots per inch; check your print service for its own figure. The table converts common print lengths to the pixels needed at that density, using the exact definition of one inch as 25.4 mm. The highlighted row is 6 inches, the long side of the classic 4 × 6 print, which needs 1800 pixels.

Photos from current phones and cameras have far more pixels than a standard print needs, so size is rarely the problem. It becomes one with pictures saved from messaging apps or social networks, which are often reduced to a fraction of the original. If you can, convert the original file from the phone or camera, not a copy that has been sent around.

Do not enlarge a small photo to reach a target. Upscaling adds pixels but no detail, and the print still looks soft.

Each option below is chosen for prints and albums. You can change them under Advanced settings, but for most photo orders the preset is all you need. The same settings apply to every photo in a batch of up to 20.

If your print service lists its own resolution or minimum pixel sizes, follow those numbers instead; the table is a guide, not a rule set by any service.

Check the aspect ratio. A phone photo is usually 4:3, while a 4 × 6 print is 3:2, so the print service will crop the top and bottom or add white borders. If the framing matters, crop the photo to the print ratio first with the Crop Image tool, then convert.

Keep files under the service's upload limit. High-quality JPGs from modern phones can be several megabytes each, which most services accept. If yours sets a lower limit, lower the quality slightly or use Compress Image after converting.

Uploads are deleted as soon as the photos are converted, and the JPGs 30 minutes later. For pictures that should become a printable document instead of separate files, Image to PDF puts them on pages.

Grayscale or sepia looks are not applied here, so the photo prints exactly as it was taken. Make any creative edits before converting, and the JPG captures the final version at full quality.