JPG to PNG Converter

There is no quality slider on this page, and that is deliberate rather than an omission. PNG compression is lossless — it reduces file size by finding patterns, not by discarding information — so there is no trade-off to expose. Two PNGs of the same image look identical; only the encoder's effort level differs, which affects size by a few percent at most.

What you will notice is size. A 500 KB photograph can easily become a 4 MB PNG. This is normal and is not a sign of anything going wrong: PNG's compression is designed for flat colour and sharp edges, and photographs have neither. It is precisely the reason JPG exists.

If the resulting PNG is too large for what you need, you have two sensible options: run it through PNG compression, which reduces the colour palette and can cut size dramatically, or convert to WebP instead, which is lossless-capable and typically far smaller than PNG.

Good reasons to convert JPG to PNG

Despite the size penalty, there are cases where this is exactly the right move:

• You are about to edit the image repeatedly. Every time a JPG is re-saved it loses a little more detail, and the damage compounds. Converting to PNG first freezes the current quality: subsequent saves cost you nothing.
• Something demands PNG. Plenty of tools, print workflows, game engines, icon pipelines and document systems accept PNG only.
• You are going to add transparency. You cannot convert your way to a transparent background, but you do need a PNG before an editor can give you one.
• It is a screenshot or contains text. If a screenshot was mistakenly saved as JPG, converting to PNG stops it degrading further — though the smudging around text that JPG already introduced is permanent.
• Archiving a master copy. When an image matters and disk space does not, lossless storage is the safer choice.

When to skip it

If the image is a photograph destined for a website, email or social media, converting to PNG is usually counterproductive. You get a much larger file, slower page loads, and no visible improvement. Keep the JPG, or convert to WebP if you want a smaller file at the same quality.

It is also not a repair tool. If a JPG looks blocky or blurry, converting it to PNG will preserve that appearance perfectly. The only real fix is to go back to the original.

What about the metadata?

JPGs from phones and cameras usually carry EXIF data — the camera model, exposure settings, and often GPS coordinates showing exactly where the photo was taken. This converter does not copy that metadata into the PNG, so the output is stripped by default.

One thing it does honour before discarding: the EXIF orientation flag. Photographs taken on a phone are frequently stored sideways with a rotation flag attached, and a converter that ignores it produces an image lying on its side. The rotation is applied to the actual pixels here, so the PNG appears the right way up everywhere.

If you want to inspect what a file contains before sharing it, the metadata viewer shows everything embedded in an image.