JPG to PNG

A guide to converting JPG images to PNG

There are plenty of practical reasons to turn a JPG into a PNG: a design app or upload portal that only accepts PNG, wanting to edit an image several times without compression losses piling up on every save, or preparing a graphic for later steps such as background removal. This tool does the job directly in your browser without installing anything.

It reads your image, draws it at its original dimensions and saves it as a lossless PNG. Conversion cannot add detail that was not in the JPG, but it guarantees the image loses nothing further when you save or edit it later.

How to use it

1. Drag a JPG onto the upload box or click it to choose the file.
2. The file name and size appear below; remove it with the small close button if you picked the wrong file.
3. Click Convert & download.
4. When the success message appears, a file named converted.png downloads.

Conversion details

• Same dimensions: width and height are not changed.
• Lossless saving: every pixel is stored as is, so repeated edits do not introduce new artefacts.
• No settings to worry about: PNG has no lossy quality level, so there is no quality slider.
• Flexible input: any image your browser supports, such as WebP or GIF, can also be converted to PNG.

Practical uses

• Preparing an image for software or a website that only accepts PNG uploads.
• Converting a JPG logo before removing its background in a design program, since transparency needs a format that supports it.
• Keeping a working copy of an image you will edit in stages so quality does not drop with each save.
• Turning charts and diagrams saved as JPG into PNG for presentations.

Tips and notes

• Quality is not restored: noise or artefacts already in the JPG stay in the PNG; conversion only prevents further loss.
• Expect a larger file: photos are bigger as PNG than JPG, so this is not the right step if you want to save space.
• The background stays: converting alone does not make the background transparent; it simply lets you remove it later in suitable software.
• Privacy: processing happens inside your browser and the image is not sent to a server.
• Rename the output after downloading if you convert several images, because the default name is the same each time.

To go the other way and save space use PNG to JPG, for a lighter web format try Convert to WebP, and for a PNG with rounded corners see Rounded corners.