PNG to JPG Converter

Why turn a PNG into a JPG

PNG is a great format for screenshots, logos, and anything with sharp edges or transparency. But it's lossless, which means the files are big — a full-screen PNG screenshot can easily be 2 to 4 MB. JPG (also called JPEG) uses compression that throws away detail your eye barely notices, and the result is often a quarter of the size or less. When you're emailing an image, uploading to a site with a file-size cap, or just trying to stop your photo folder from ballooning, that smaller JPG is what you actually want.

This converter runs entirely in your browser. The PNG is drawn onto a canvas and re-encoded as a JPG on your own device — nothing is sent to a server, nothing is stored, and there's no upload wait. For a screenshot that might show an email address, a dashboard, or anything private, that's the safe way to do it. Close the tab and the image is gone with it.

The quality slider, and what it does

JPG compression is adjustable, and you control it here. At around 90 to 95 percent the image looks essentially identical to the original while still shrinking dramatically — that's the sweet spot for photos and most screenshots. Drop to 70 or 80 percent and the file gets even smaller, with compression artifacts only really visible if you zoom in or the image has large flat areas of color. The default of 92 percent is a safe all-rounder; nudge it down if you need to hit a specific size limit.

What happens to transparency

JPG can't store transparency — it has no alpha channel. So if your PNG has transparent areas (a logo with no background, say), those areas have to become something solid. This tool fills them with white, which is what you want the vast majority of the time. If keeping the transparency matters — you're placing a logo over a colored background, for instance — then JPG is the wrong target and you should keep the PNG or use a format that supports transparency.

Who reaches for this

People who just took a screenshot and need to send it without clogging an inbox. Anyone uploading to a form, marketplace, or job portal that rejects files over a couple of megabytes. Sellers preparing product photos where JPG is expected. Students attaching images to a submission with a size limit. And plenty of people who simply have a folder full of heavy PNGs and want to reclaim the space without losing anything they'd notice.

When to keep the PNG instead

Need it even smaller for a website? You can convert it to WebP instead, which compresses better than JPG at the same quality.

Convert to JPG when the image is a photo or a screenshot you'll share or store, and you don't need transparency. Stay with PNG when you need a transparent background, when the image is a logo or diagram with crisp lines and text that JPG compression would smudge, or when you'll keep editing and re-saving it — every JPG save loses a little more quality, while PNG never does. Match the format to the job and you get the best of both.