PNG to JPG Converter
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PNG is the right choice for graphics with sharp edges, text, and transparent backgrounds — but it's a wasteful format for photographs. A photo saved as PNG can easily be 5–10× larger than the same image exported as JPG at 85% quality. If you've received PNG photos from a scanner, screen recording, or design export and need to reduce their size for email, social media, or a website, converting to JPG is the fastest path to a significantly smaller file.
JPG's compression algorithm is tailored to photographic content. It discards colour information in areas where the human eye is least sensitive — fine texture, noise, subtle gradients. At quality settings of 80–90%, most people cannot distinguish a JPG from the original at normal viewing sizes. The file size difference is dramatic: a 3 MB PNG photograph commonly becomes 300–500 KB as a JPG, a reduction of 80–90%.
One firm limitation to be aware of: JPG does not support transparency. If your PNG has a transparent background or any transparent areas, those pixels will be filled with white when saved as JPG. If preserving transparency matters, convert to WebP instead — it supports both lossy compression and a full alpha channel.
Frequently asked questions
Transparent pixels are filled with white. JPG does not support transparency at all — every pixel must have a solid colour. If your PNG has a transparent background (common with logos, icons, and cutout product images), that background becomes white in the JPG output. If you need to keep transparency, convert to WebP instead, which supports both compression and alpha channels.
For photographic content, typically 70–90% smaller at 85% quality. A 3 MB photo saved as PNG usually becomes 300–500 KB as a JPG. For PNGs containing graphics, text, or flat colours rather than photos, the saving is smaller — JPG compression works best on smooth, continuous-tone photographic content.
JPG is a lossy format, so yes — some quality is lost. At 85% quality (the default), the difference is imperceptible for photos under normal viewing conditions. Once converted, the quality loss is permanent — you can't recover the original PNG fidelity from the JPG, so keep the original if you might need it later.
JPG is the better choice when you need guaranteed compatibility: email clients (particularly Outlook), older CMS platforms, printing workflows, and any environment where WebP support is uncertain. WebP is technically superior in almost every way, but JPG's 30-year track record means it works everywhere without configuration.