Convert PNG to JPG

PNG is lossless: it stores the picture exactly, which is perfect for things with crisp edges and flat areas of color, and needlessly heavy for anything that came out of a camera. JPG throws away detail your eye is unlikely to miss, which suits photos and gradients very well.

So convert when the PNG is a photo, a scan of a printed picture, or a screenshot that is mostly an image, and the file is too big to email or upload. Think twice when it is a chart, a logo, a diagram or a screenshot full of small text. JPG blurs hard edges slightly and can leave faint speckles around letters, and those files are often small as PNGs already.

A PNG can have pixels that are partly or fully see-through; a JPG cannot. Something has to go behind them, and many converters just let the pixels turn black, which ruins a dark logo. Here they are blended over a fill color instead, white unless you choose otherwise, and soft edges such as shadows and anti-aliased curves are blended too, so they stay smooth.

Match the fill to where the image will be used: a slide background, a brand color, or the gray of a web page. If the image must stay see-through, keep it as PNG, or use WebP, which supports transparency and is much smaller.

Every desktop system saves screenshots as PNG by default: the Windows Snipping Tool, macOS (Shift-⌘-4), ChromeOS and most Linux desktops alike. Android and iPhone screenshots are PNG files too. That is why a single full-screen capture of a photo can be several megabytes.

You don’t have to save the screenshot first. Copy it, come to this page and press Ctrl+V (⌘V on a Mac); it opens as if you had dropped a file, ready to save as JPG.

PNG files can hold 16 bits per channel. Image Studio works at 8 bits per channel in sRGB, the same as a JPG, so nothing is lost that a JPG could keep. Text chunks a PNG may carry, such as the software that made it or a creation time, are not copied into the JPG.

The new file is named after the PNG with the extension changed to .jpg. In a batch, two files with the same name get a number added rather than overwriting each other.

Screenshots are some of the most private images people have: chats, bank pages, email, work documents. Converting one here means it is read and re-encoded inside your browser tab, and the JPG goes straight back to your device.

Nothing is kept after you close the tab unless you choose to save the file yourself.

You don't have to take our word for it. Three checks:

1. Open your browser's developer tools, choose the Network tab, then open and save an image. No request carries your file.
2. Open an image here once, then turn on airplane mode and run the same job again. It still works, because nothing needs a server.
3. Read the page's response headers: its Content-Security-Policy lets it connect only to this site itself, so there is no outside host a file could go to.

How it works, and how to check it yourself