Convert PNG to JPG
Turn heavy PNG photos into compact JPG files, right here in your browser.
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Processed in your browser — your files are never uploaded.
How do I convert PNG to JPG?
- Choose or drop the PNG you want to shrink.
- Keep JPG selected as the output and, if you like, move the quality slider — 85 is a good starting point.
- Press Convert, check the preview, then download the JPG.
When should you convert PNG to JPG?
PNG stores every pixel exactly, which is perfect for graphics but wasteful for photographs: a photo saved as PNG is often several times larger than it needs to be. JPG was designed for photos. It discards detail your eye barely notices, so the same picture takes a fraction of the space and uploads or emails much faster.
- Your phone or photo editor exported a photo as PNG and it is too heavy to attach to an email.
- An online form, job portal or print shop accepts only JPG uploads, and your photo is a PNG.
- Product or portfolio photos stored as PNG are slowing your website down.
What do you keep and what do you lose?
You keep
- The full pixel dimensions of your image.
- Colours in opaque areas, which look the same to the eye at quality 80–90.
You lose
- Transparent areas become white, because JPG has no transparency.
- Crisp edges on text and line art, which can pick up faint halos.
- Embedded metadata such as camera details and location.
In our test (Chromium 156.0.8078.4, 2026-10-23), converting a landscape photo from PNG to JPG at quality 85 changed its size: 4.8 MB → 638 KB (87% smaller).
Which PNGs are worth turning into JPG?
It depends on what the PNG contains, and our three test images show the whole range. The landscape photo is the case JPG was made for: its 4.8 MB PNG came down to 638 KB at quality 85. The website screenshot went the other way and grew at quality 85: 78 KB → 85 KB (1.1× larger). Its flat colours and sharp text compress well losslessly, and JPG spends extra bytes on faint halos around every letter.
The transparent logo shrank too, from 224 KB to 27 KB, but its see-through background was filled with white, so the result only suits a white page. A quick test before you convert: zoom in on the PNG. Soft gradients, skin, sky or foliage mean a photo, and JPG will cut it down. Crisp edges, large areas of one colour, text or a checkerboard behind the image mean a graphic: keep it as PNG, or try WebP.
PNG to JPG questions
Why did my transparent background turn white?
JPG has no transparency at all, so every transparent pixel needs a solid colour. This tool fills those areas with white, which suits most pages and documents. If you need to keep the see-through background, convert the PNG to WebP instead, which supports transparency at a small file size.
Should I convert screenshots or logos to JPG?
Usually not. JPG is built for photos, and on flat colours and text it adds blur while saving little. In our test, a website screenshot actually grew when saved as JPG at quality 85: 78 KB → 85 KB (1.1× larger). Keep screenshots and logos as PNG, or use WebP for the web.
How much smaller will the JPG be?
It depends on how much detail the photo has, but the saving is usually large. Our landscape test photo shrank from 4.8 MB to 638 KB at quality 85, and to 311 KB at quality 50, at the cost of more visible compression.
Need it the other way? Convert JPG to PNG →
Not sure which format to use? Compare PNG, JPG and WebP →