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EXIF metadata is removed. Decoding and redrawing the image carries no GPS coordinates, camera model or timestamp across, so the file you download has none of it. If you need that data kept, copy the originals instead.
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How to Convert JPG to PNG
- Drag and drop your JPG files into the converter above, or click to browse.
- The converter automatically outputs PNG format. Adjust quality if needed.
- Click download to save your converted PNG files. For multiple files, use "Download All as ZIP."
What is PNG?
PNG dates from 1996 and was designed for the things photographs are not: logos, screenshots, diagrams, interface assets, line art, anything with a hard edge or a letterform in it. Compression is lossless. Per-row prediction feeds into DEFLATE, so a decoded PNG is bit-for-bit the image that was encoded. It carries a genuine alpha channel with 256 levels of transparency per pixel, which is why designers hand over PNGs when an asset has to sit on a background nobody has chosen yet. Colour depth runs to 16.7 million colours. Support is as close to universal as PNG's own age allows. Nothing modern refuses one.
What is a JPG File?
JPG is an image format. Converting to PNG ensures your images are compatible with more devices and applications.
JPG vs PNG
This conversion changes less than the file sizes suggest. JPG threw away detail when it was first saved, permanently, and PNG cannot reach back and recover it. Ringing along a high-contrast edge, the faint 8x8 block pattern in a smooth sky, the softening of fine texture: all of it is now part of the picture, and PNG will store it with perfect fidelity. So the PNG is not a better image. It is a bigger file containing the same image, plus a guarantee about the future — worth something only if the image has a future involving an editor. From this point on, every crop, tweak and re-save is exact rather than another round of loss. That guarantee is the whole product, and whether several times the file size is a fair price for it depends entirely on what happens to the image next.
Why Convert JPG to PNG?
- Something is refusing your JPG. Plenty of upload forms, print templates, favicon generators, app store submission tools and design systems specify PNG and will not budge, usually because they expect transparency support even when the image has none. This is by far the most common reason people arrive here, and it is a perfectly good one.
- You are about to start editing. If an image is going to be opened, adjusted and saved half a dozen times, doing that in JPG means paying a compression tax on every single save, and the damage compounds in a way that is obvious after a few rounds. Converting once to PNG and working there costs disk space and nothing else. Export back to JPG at the end if that is what the destination wants.
Frequently Asked Questions
Will converting to PNG improve the image?
No. This is the misconception the format's reputation creates. Lossless means nothing further will be lost, not that anything lost earlier comes back. If the JPG was saved at quality 60 and looks blocky, the PNG will be a flawless copy of something blocky — several times larger. Where it helps is everything that happens afterwards.
Why is the PNG so much bigger than the JPG?
Because it is not allowed to cheat. JPG reaches its size by discarding information selectively, exploiting the fact that human vision barely registers certain kinds of detail, and it is very good at choosing which. PNG has to store every pixel value it was given, and photographic content is close to noise as far as a general-purpose compressor is concerned. A 500 KB photo commonly lands somewhere between 2 and 4 MB as a PNG.
Does converting give the image a transparent background?
It does not. The PNG gets an alpha channel it is allowed to use, but every pixel in it is fully opaque, because that is what the JPG contained. Making the background actually transparent is a separate editing job, done afterwards in an image editor or a background-removal tool. Converting the file first is a reasonable step before that work, since it means the editing happens in a lossless format.
Should I convert JPG to PNG at all?
Often not. If the picture is a photograph that will be viewed, emailed or uploaded and then left alone, converting gains you a much larger file and nothing else. Do it when a specific tool insists on PNG, when you need a lossless base for repeated edits, or when the image is a screenshot that should never have been a JPG in the first place.