Change a JPEG or JPG to PNG

To change JPG to PNG, drop the photo on this page and press Convert to PNG. The PNG is made in your browser and holds the same pixels as the JPEG, one for one, which is why the route from JPEG to PNG is graded Exact. Nothing is uploaded.

The picture looks the same afterwards. What changes is how it is stored: a PNG is lossless, so from now on it can be edited and saved again without getting softer. A few things around the pixels change too:

• A colour profile in the JPEG, such as Adobe RGB from a camera, is copied into the PNG, so the colours stay true on wide-colour screens.
• A photo your phone stored on its side is saved the right way up, because the turn is applied to the pixels.
• The file keeps its name with .png on the end: IMG_2041.jpg is saved as IMG_2041.png.

• You will edit the picture more than once. Every save as JPEG blurs it a little more; as a PNG, the loss stops here.
• An app, a website or an upload form accepts PNG and refuses JPG.
• You need a working copy for a design or a print layout, where each export should start from the same untouched pixels.

If the real goal is a transparent background, skip this page. Make background transparent opens the JPG as it is, turns one plain colour such as white see-through and saves a PNG. It removes a colour; it does not cut people or objects out of a busy photo.

For a photo that only needs to be emailed or posted, the JPG is usually the better file already. JPEG vs PNG explains which format suits which picture.

A JPEG stays small by discarding detail you are unlikely to notice. A PNG keeps every pixel, and the fine grain of a photo is hard to pack without loss, so the PNG grows. Our test photos came out about three to six times larger. Your browser does the saving, so the size differs a little from one browser to another.

Need the PNG but not its size? Compress image can make it smaller without losing a pixel, or much smaller with fewer colours. And if a PNG of your own is too heavy to send, convert PNG to JPG instead.

Select up to 100 JPGs, or drop them on the page together. They are converted one after another on your device, each under its own name. Save each PNG with its Download button, or press Download all (ZIP) to get them in one file, whatafile-converted.zip. There is no daily limit.

Not every picture is a JPG? Scans often arrive as TIFF, and you can convert TIFF to PNG the same way. The PNG converter opens HEIC, WebP, AVIF, BMP and GIF pictures too.