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Convert images to PNG

JPG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, GIF, or BMP into lossless PNG, with transparency kept.

Image to PNG

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How to image to png

  1. Add your images. Any common format, mixed batches are fine.
  2. Convert. Each image is decoded and re-encoded losslessly in this tab.
  3. Download. Individually, or as a zip.

About image to png

PNG exists for the images JPEG handles badly: anything with hard edges, flat colour, or transparency. Logos, icons, screenshots, diagrams, charts, and line art all belong here. The compression is lossless, so a black line stays exactly black and an edge stays exactly sharp, with none of the faint grey shimmer JPEG leaves around high-contrast boundaries.

Transparency is the other reason, and often the deciding one. PNG carries an alpha channel, so a logo can sit on any background without a white box around it. WebP and AVIF also support transparency, but PNG is the format that every design tool, word processor, and content management system reliably accepts, which makes it the safe target when you do not control what happens to the file next.

Converting from a lossy source is worth understanding properly. Turning a JPEG into a PNG does not restore detail — whatever the JPEG discarded is gone permanently, and PNG simply stores the damaged result faithfully at a larger file size. What it does buy you is that no *further* loss happens as you edit and re-export, which is exactly why PNG is the right intermediate format for a working file even when the original was lossy.

Size is the trade and it is significant for photographs. A twelve-megapixel photo as PNG can be twenty times the size of the JPEG equivalent, with no visible difference, because photographs are precisely the content lossy compression handles well. Use PNG for graphics and working files. Use JPEG for photographs you are storing or sending in quantity.

Image to PNG FAQ

Does converting JPG to PNG improve quality?

No. Whatever the JPEG compression discarded is gone for good. PNG stores the result losslessly, which prevents further degradation but cannot recover what was already lost.

Is transparency preserved?

Yes, when the source has it — from WebP, AVIF, GIF, or another PNG. Converting from JPEG cannot create transparency, since JPEG has no alpha channel to begin with.

Why is my PNG so much larger than the original?

PNG is lossless, so nothing is discarded. For photographs this can mean a file many times larger with no visible improvement. That is expected, not a fault.

Should I use PNG or WebP?

WebP is smaller at equivalent quality and supports transparency too. Use PNG when compatibility matters most, WebP when file size does.

Can I convert an animated GIF to PNG?

Only the first frame. Standard PNG holds a single image.

Are my files uploaded?

No. Everything runs in this browser tab.

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