PNG to JPG Converter

PNG records every pixel exactly. That is ideal for a logo with five flat colors, and wasteful for a photograph, where neighboring pixels differ by tiny amounts. JPG is built for that kind of picture. It drops detail your eye rarely misses, and a photo saved as JPG is often a fraction of the PNG's size.

This is why phone screenshots of photos, exports from design apps and scans saved as PNG can hit email and upload limits so quickly.

JPG is the wrong choice for some pictures. Screenshots full of small text, sharp diagrams and flat-color graphics can pick up a faint fuzz around the edges. If crisp lines matter more than file size, keep the PNG. If you only need to get under a limit, open Advanced settings (optional) to set a quality or a maximum file size, or run the result through Compress Image.

The same menu can resize the picture while it converts, which saves a second pass through Image Resizer. By default, location and camera details are removed from the saved file.

JPG has no transparent pixels. A PNG with a see-through background must be given a solid one, or the converter would have to invent a color for each empty pixel. A tool that guesses can leave a logo sitting on a dark box.

Here the choice is yours. The Background for transparent areas card starts on white and offers quick swatches for black and light gray. A color field accepts any other shade. Match it to where the picture will be used: white for a document or a web page, a brand color for a banner, black for a dark slide.

Edges deserve a look. A logo with soft, anti-aliased edges blends into the background color you choose, so a white fill gives a clean result on a white page and a pale halo on a dark one. If you see a halo, convert again with a background closer to the final surface.

Transparency can't survive the trip. Once the JPG is saved, the fill is part of the picture, and you can't take it back out. Keep your PNG original if you may need the clear version later. To go the other direction, JPG to PNG makes a PNG, though it can't restore transparency that a JPG never had.

A PNG can look completely opaque and still carry a transparency channel, or look like a flat graphic while it actually has none. The only way to know is to read the file.

After each PNG converts, its row reports what was found. Has transparent areas. means the background setting changed something in that file. No transparency. means the setting made no difference, and the JPG matches the picture you saw.

In a mixed batch this is a quick way to sort things out. Photos and screenshots usually say "No transparency", while logos, icons and cutouts say "Has transparent areas". If one row surprises you, open Compare to see the original next to the JPG.

Every file in a batch shares the same background color. When one logo needs black and the rest need white, use that row's settings button to give it its own color, then apply the change.