Convert a photo to JPEG, PNG or WebP

Convert a photo to JPEG, PNG or WebP

Your photo never leaves this page. Nothing is uploaded: it is opened and rewritten in your browser, and the page keeps working with the connection off.

Choose a photo

Or drop one on this box. JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF open in every current browser. A HEIC photo from an iPhone opens only where the browser can read HEIC, which today means Safari.

How it works

1. Choose a photo. Pick one, or drop one on the box. Each photo tool keeps working with the connection switched off once its page has loaded, and the browser test runs every tool that way. The page reads the first bytes of the file to tell what it really is, whatever its name says.
2. Pick the new format. A JPEG starts out headed for PNG, and anything else starts out headed for JPEG. Change it with one tap.
3. Set the quality for JPEG or WebP. Higher keeps more detail and makes a bigger file. PNG has no setting, because it keeps every pixel.
4. Save the new file. The page shows its size next to the original’s. Your original is not changed.

Which format to choose

The format guide on MDN has the details: JPEG drops detail and has no transparency, PNG keeps every pixel, and WebP can do both. Our guide to PNG, JPG and WebP explains when each one is worth it.

Not every browser can write WebP. When yours cannot, the page says so and offers only JPEG and PNG, because a browser that is asked for a format it lacks quietly writes a PNG instead. The page checks the saved file and refuses to call it a WebP if it is not one.

HEIC photos from an iPhone

A HEIC photo is the iPhone camera’s usual format. This page can convert one only where the browser itself can open HEIC. Today that means Safari on a Mac, iPhone or iPad. In Chrome, Firefox or Edge on Windows or Android the page says it cannot open the file, and nothing is guessed at.

Two other ways round it, both from Apple’s page on HEIF media:

• Have the camera save JPEG. In Settings, tap Camera, then Formats, then Most Compatible. This changes new photos only.
• Share the photo. When you share from an iPhone, it may send a more compatible format such as JPEG by itself.

Our guide to converting HEIC to JPG on an iPhone walks through these steps, and what a HEIC file is explains why the iPhone uses it.

What the new file contains

• The picture, redrawn. It has the same width and height, in the standard sRGB colors a canvas uses. A photo taken in a wider color range can look a little less vivid.
• No camera, date or location data. The page draws the photo onto a canvas, which holds only pixels, and then checks the new file once more before offering it. To keep the original format and only drop the data, use the photo metadata remover instead.
• One frame. A GIF animation keeps only its first frame.
• White where it was clear, for JPEG. JPEG has no transparency, so clear areas are filled with white. Choose PNG or WebP to keep them clear.

Where Sealed helps, and where it doesn’t

It helps keep the photo you started with once the converted copy has gone wherever it needed to go. Photos and videos are sealed the moment they arrive, and afterwards you can remove the originals from Photos if you like. Sealed encrypts every file with AES-256-GCM before it is saved. Viewing and exporting your own photos is always free.

It doesn’t convert photos between formats, and nothing on this page touches a photo in your vault. Until you delete them, the originals stay in Photos, outside the vault.