Your client just asked for a PNG
It happens all the time. You’ve got a JPEG. Your designer needs a PNG. Maybe they’re doing a composite and don’t want JPEG artifacts compounding with every save. Maybe they need to cut out the background and add transparency. Maybe the print shop only accepts PNG. Whatever the reason, you need to convert, and you need it now.
Upload your JPEG, get a PNG back. The conversion locks in the current quality, every pixel stays exactly as it is. No additional compression, no degradation, no artifacts introduced. Going forward, you can edit and re-save the PNG as many times as you want without the quality spiraling downward like it does with JPEG.
One thing to know upfront: the file will get bigger. PNG uses lossless compression, which preserves everything but costs more storage. A 500 KB JPEG might become a 1.5 MB PNG. That’s the trade-off for lossless quality.
Converting
- Select your JPEG with “Choose JPG File”.
- Verify the preview looks right.
- Click “Convert to PNG & Download”.
Done. Standard JPEGs, progressive JPEGs, images with EXIF metadata, all supported.
Why go from JPEG to PNG
- Lossless from here on: every future save, crop, and edit stays clean
- Transparency becomes possible: PNG supports alpha channels, so you can remove backgrounds in Photoshop or Figma
- Universal format: every browser, every OS, every image editor opens PNG without complaint
- No new artifacts: the conversion doesn’t touch the pixel data, it just re-encodes it losslessly
Real-world scenarios
A designer needs your product photo as a cutout. You shot it against a white backdrop and saved as JPEG. They can’t add transparency to a JPEG, the format doesn’t support alpha channels. Convert to PNG first, then they can mask out the background and composite it over any design.
You’re building documentation with annotated screenshots. Each time you save a JPEG, the compression runs again and the quality drops a little. After five rounds of cropping and annotating, the text is fuzzy. Work in PNG instead, crop it, annotate it, save it fifty times, and the quality stays pristine.
The print shop rejected your JPEG. Some print workflows require lossless formats. PNG fits the bill. Convert and resubmit.
You’re archiving photos you plan to edit later. JPEG is fine for final delivery, but if you’re going to process these images again, storing them as PNG protects against generational quality loss. Think of it as a safety net.
If file size is more important than lossless quality, the Image Compressor is a better fit, it can shrink JPEGs without converting them. For the smallest possible web files, try the JPG to WebP converter instead.
Conversion questions
How much bigger will the file be?
Varies a lot. Photographs with complex detail might be 2-4x larger as PNG compared to JPEG. Simple graphics with flat colors? The difference is smaller. PNG’s lossless compression is more efficient when there’s less color variation.
Does converting to PNG undo JPEG compression artifacts?
No. What’s lost is lost. The conversion preserves the current state of the image, artifacts and all. It just prevents new ones from being added in the future.
Will the PNG have transparency?
Not automatically. The converted file will have an opaque background matching whatever was in the JPEG. But now that it’s PNG, you can open it in an editor and add an alpha channel yourself.
What about progressive JPEGs?
Handled fine. Progressive, baseline, standard, the tool processes all JPEG subtypes.
Is my file uploaded permanently?
No. It’s processed in server memory and returned to you. Nothing is stored after you download the result.