JPG to PNG Converter

JPG (JPEG) is a lossy format: it discards image data during compression to shrink file size, which is why photos saved as JPG develop blocky artifacts and color banding. PNG is a lossless format that stores every pixel exactly. This tool decodes your JPG into a canvas and re-exports those pixels as PNG using the browser's built-in encoder. The key thing to understand is that converting does not restore quality. Whatever detail JPG already threw away is gone for good; the PNG simply preserves the current pixels without adding new compression artifacts. The practical payoff is editing safety. Every time you re-save a JPG, it compresses again and quality degrades a little more (generation loss). PNG sidesteps that, so it is the better working format while you crop, annotate, or composite. One trade-off to expect: because PNG stores photographic detail without lossy compression, the PNG output is often several times larger than the source JPG. Metadata such as EXIF camera info is also dropped, since the canvas only carries pixels. Modern browsers bake EXIF orientation into the pixels during decode, so the result is not rotated incorrectly.