Convert JPG to PNG
Drop the JPG and download it as PNG — lossless from here on.
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PNG, JPG, WEBP, HEIC, AVIF, JXL, GIF, BMP, TIFF and SVG · up to 20 MB
What this conversion does, and what it doesn't
This is the conversion most often requested for the wrong reason. Plenty of people turn a JPG into a PNG expecting the image to improve, and that isn't what happens. PNG restores nothing: it preserves losslessly whatever you give it, and what you're giving it is a JPG with its blotches and halos already baked in. The result is the same image, with the same flaws, in a larger file.
That said, the conversion does have good uses, and there are three of them.
To edit without losing ground each save
JPG recompresses every time it's saved. Open, crop, save, reopen, adjust colour, save again: each step layers a little more degradation on the last. Over a long session it adds up and it shows.
Converting to PNG up front stops that accumulation dead. Intermediate steps lose nothing, and at the end you can decide whether to deliver as JPG, WEBP or whatever fits.
For sites that insist on PNG
Government forms, print templates, some document generators and quite a few design tools accept PNG and reject JPG without explaining themselves. Here the conversion isn't chasing quality, it's getting the file accepted.
As the step before transparency
If you're about to cut the background out of a photo, the result needs an alpha channel and JPG hasn't got one. Converting to PNG is the necessary first step. Converting doesn't remove the background, though: that's what the remove background tool is for, finding the main subject and clearing the rest.
If what you want is a smaller file
Then PNG is the wrong direction entirely. Try WEBP, which usually lands below the JPG you started from while looking the same and supporting transparency.
Common questions
- Does converting to PNG improve my JPG's quality?
- No. It's the most common misunderstanding about this conversion. Whatever the JPG discarded when it was compressed isn't in the file, so there's nothing to recover. PNG preserves perfectly whatever you hand it, flaws included.
- So what is it good for?
- For losing nothing from here on. If you're going to edit in several passes, every JPG save adds loss; PNG adds none. Also for sites that only accept PNG, and as the step before adding transparency.
- Why is the PNG so much bigger?
- Because it stores every pixel without discarding anything. And there's an ironic detail: the noise JPG compression introduced makes the image harder to compress losslessly, so a PNG made from a JPG usually weighs more than one made from the original.
- Does it let me make the background transparent?
- PNG supports transparency, but converting doesn't create any: the image still has its background. Removing it means detecting the subject and clearing the rest, which is what the remove background tool does.
- Is metadata kept?
- EXIF camera data — date, model, location — doesn't survive the move to PNG, because PNG doesn't use that container. Keep the original JPG if you need it.