Save JPG photos as lossless PNG files for editing, or for tools and forms that only accept PNG. Nothing is uploaded, and there’s no account, watermark or limit.
Drag JPG or JPEG files into the drop zone, or click it to browse your folders.
Choose a metadata option. “Remove location” is on by default, so GPS coordinates from your camera don't travel with the PNG. There is no quality slider, because PNG is lossless.
Click Convert. Photos the camera stored sideways are rotated upright automatically.
Download each PNG, or grab everything at once with “Download all (.zip)”.
JPG (also written JPEG) is the standard format for photographs, named after the Joint Photographic Experts Group, which published the standard in 1992. Practically every camera, phone, website and printer handles it.
It keeps files small by discarding detail the eye is less likely to notice, working on small blocks of pixels. That data is gone for good once the file is saved. Each time a JPG is edited and saved again, it is compressed again and loses a little more, which is known as generation loss.
JPG has no transparency and no animation. It does one job, storing photos compactly, and does it very well, which is why there's rarely a reason to move a photo away from it unless something specific requires PNG.
Windows
Paint simply writes the same pixels as PNG; it doesn't make the background transparent.
Mac
iPhone & iPad
Some apps re-save images in their own format on import, so if a form needs PNG, upload it straight from Files.
Converting JPG to PNG does not improve quality. PNG stores the pixels exactly, including any softness or blocky artifacts the JPG compression already introduced. What you gain is that nothing more is lost from this point on.
The PNG will also be larger, often several times larger for photos, because lossless compression cannot squeeze camera noise and fine texture the way JPG does.
So when is it worth it? First, editing over several sessions: keep a PNG working copy so repeated saves don't add JPG loss each time, and export a JPG only at the end. Second, a tool, form or print workflow that specifically requires PNG. Third, preparing an image for a transparent background: the PNG itself won't be transparent, but once it's a PNG you can erase the background in an editor and save the result with transparency.
If you just want to share, email or upload a photo, keep it as JPG. It's smaller and opens everywhere.
No. The PNG is an exact copy of the JPG's pixels, so any blur or compression artifacts stay exactly as they are. PNG only prevents further loss from later edits and saves.
No. A JPG has no transparency, so the PNG is fully opaque, with the same background the photo had. To make the background transparent you need an editor that can remove it; converting to PNG first simply means the file can keep that transparency once you've made it.
PNG compresses losslessly, and photos contain lots of fine detail and noise that lossless compression can't shrink much. JPG gets its small size by throwing some of that detail away. A larger PNG is normal and doesn't mean anything went wrong.
When you'll edit the image several times, when a website, app or print service explicitly asks for PNG, or when you plan to cut out the background later. For sharing or uploading a photo as it is, JPG remains the better format.
They suit different things. PNG is better for screenshots, text, logos and files you will keep editing. JPG is better for sharing photos, because the files are far smaller with little visible difference.
Yes. If the camera recorded the photo sideways with an orientation tag, the rotation is applied to the pixels so the PNG is upright everywhere. Colours are converted to sRGB, the standard colour space for screens and the web.
No. Everything happens in your browser on your own device, and the photos never leave it. Location data is also removed by default, which is useful when you share the PNG with others.
Last updated October 28, 2026