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PNG to JPG
Turn large PNGs into much smaller JPEGs, with control over the background fill.
PNG to JPG
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How to png to jpg
- Add your PNGs. One or many, in a single batch.
- Set quality and background. Transparency needs a solid fill — white by default.
- Download. Individually or as a zip.
About png to jpg
The usual reason for this conversion is size. PNG is lossless, which is excellent for graphics and unhelpful for photographs — a photo saved as PNG can be ten or twenty times larger than the same photo as JPEG, with no visible difference whatsoever. Screenshots of photographic content, images exported from design tools with the wrong preset, and anything saved from a screen capture utility all tend to arrive as needlessly large PNGs.
Converting to JPEG at a sensible quality typically cuts the file size by 80 to 95 percent for photographic content. For an email attachment, a web upload with a size cap, or a folder of images that has quietly grown to several gigabytes, that is the difference between workable and not. The conversion is quick because it is just a decode and re-encode on the canvas.
Transparency is the thing to decide before you convert, because JPEG has no alpha channel and the transparent areas have to become something. White is the default and is right for most cases — it matches the page background in documents and most websites. If your graphic was designed against a dark background, white produces an ugly box, so pick a matching fill instead. If the transparency is genuinely load-bearing, JPEG is the wrong format and you should stay on PNG or move to WebP.
Know when not to do this. A PNG holding a logo, an icon, a diagram, or a screenshot full of text is already the right format, and converting it to JPEG will make the edges soft and add faint haloing around the letters while saving less than you would expect. Flat-colour graphics compress extremely well as PNG. The size argument only holds for photographic content.
PNG to JPG FAQ
How much smaller will my file get?
For photographic content, usually 80 to 95 percent smaller. For flat graphics and logos, much less — sometimes barely anything, because PNG already compresses those well.
What happens to the transparent parts?
They are filled with a solid colour, since JPEG cannot store transparency. White is the default and you can change it to match your background.
Will I lose quality?
Some, since JPEG is lossy. At quality 85 or above it is not visible at normal viewing sizes for photographs. It is more noticeable on text and sharp edges.
When should I not convert PNG to JPG?
When the image is a logo, icon, diagram, or screenshot with text. Those stay sharper as PNG and often do not shrink much as JPEG anyway.
Can I convert a whole folder at once?
Yes. Add the batch and download everything as a single zip.
Is my image uploaded?
No. The conversion runs in this browser tab.