Convert Image to PNG

1. Open the source image

   Use the “Choose image” button, drag the JPG or WebP into the window, or press Ctrl+V to paste it from the clipboard. There's also “Try a sample photo” to see how it works right away.

2. Let the tool do its job

   There are no sliders to tweak here: the output is always a lossless PNG, so there's no quality to choose. The preview shows you the result exactly as it is, pixel for pixel.

3. Download the PNG

   Hit “Download” to save the .png file, with no watermark. Want to convert another image? “Undo” clears the workspace so you can start fresh.

PNG compresses without throwing anything away: every pixel of the converted image is identical to the source. That absolute fidelity makes it the go-to format for everything that isn't a photograph:

• Screenshots with text and interfaces: letters stay sharp, without the halos typical of JPG.
• Logos and icons: crisp edges between flat colors don't smear.
• Charts and diagrams: thin lines and solid fills come through intact.
• Images you'll edit again: a PNG can be opened and re-saved endlessly without degrading.

If your file is a WebP downloaded from the web or a JPG you still need to retouch, bringing it into PNG gives you a stable base to work on — for example before you add text to the image.

PNG supports an alpha channel — per-pixel transparency — and alongside WebP it's the only one of the three major formats that does; JPG has none at all. If you convert a WebP with a transparent background, the transparency is preserved; if you start from a JPG, the file has no transparent areas to carry over, but the resulting PNG is ready to hold them in later steps. This is where the conversion shines in combination with other tools: bring the image into PNG and then apply rounded corners — the softened corners will be genuinely transparent, so the image sits on any colored background without the white box. The same goes for avatars, badges and graphics destined for banners or presentations: PNG is the format that keeps them truly “cut out”.

It's the most common question from anyone who converts a photo and watches the file size go up instead of down. The explanation lies in the type of compression: PNG stores the image losslessly, and a real photograph contains millions of unique tones that simply won't compress much. An 800 KB JPG can become a 4-6 MB PNG while showing exactly the same picture — with no quality gain whatsoever, because the details the original JPG discarded can't be recovered. The practical rule: for photographs headed to the web, email or social media, take the opposite route and convert to JPG or, even better for a website, switch to WebP. Save PNG for graphics, text, transparency and files you'll edit again.

Technically, the tool decodes the source file, draws it onto a Canvas and re-exports it as PNG: a lossless format going into a lossless pipeline, so no artifacts get added at any point along the way. Everything stays in your browser's memory — no uploads, no upload queue, no copies of your image on someone else's machines — and the re-export produces a file free of the original's EXIF metadata. The working limit is 4096 pixels on the long side, beyond which the image is scaled to fit. One suggestion: since PNG is ideal as a working format, use it for intermediate steps — retouching, borders, corrections — and decide on the final format only at publish time, once you know where the image will end up.

• the image contains text or thin lines
• you need (or will need) transparency
• the file will be edited again
• fidelity matters more than file size