Why convert TIFF to JPG
TIFF is what scanners, print workflows and archives produce, and it's big. An uncompressed 8-bit RGB TIFF stores 3 bytes per pixel, so a 12 MP photo (4032 × 3024) is about 36.6 MB, and a letter-size page scanned at 300 dpi (2550 × 3300) is about 25 MB. Chrome, Edge and Firefox can't display TIFF, and most upload forms, email previews and social sites won't take it. A handful of scans can also blow past a typical 25 MB email attachment limit. A JPG of the same image opens everywhere and is usually a small fraction of the size.
What the converter handles
- Batches. Drop any number of .tif or .tiff files and download them one at a time or as a zip.
- Multi-page TIFFs. Scanned contracts and multi-page documents often sit in a single file. Each page becomes its own JPG.
- Compression types. Uncompressed, LZW, Deflate (ZIP), PackBits and JPEG-compressed TIFFs.
- 16-bit files. High-bit-depth scans and camera exports are read correctly and converted to 8-bit JPG.
- Transparency. JPG can't store it, so transparent areas become white.
Choosing a quality
The quality slider sets how hard the JPG is compressed. At 92 it's visually lossless for scans and photos: you won't see a difference at normal viewing size. Around 80 is fine for email and the web and gives much smaller files. Pages of text are the exception. JPG adds faint ringing around sharp letter edges at low settings, so keep documents at 85 or higher.
What you give up
JPG is lossy and stores 8 bits per channel. For viewing, sharing, uploading and printing at normal sizes that doesn't matter. It does matter if you plan heavy editing (big exposure or color changes show banding in 8-bit files), if a print shop asked for TIFF, or if the file is an archival master. In those cases, convert a copy and keep the TIFF. Layered TIFFs from Photoshop come out as the flattened image.
Private by design
Many online converters upload your file to their server, convert it there and send it back. That's a poor fit for what TIFFs usually contain: scanned IDs, contracts, medical paperwork, tax documents. Here the TIFF decoding and the JPG encoding both run inside your browser tab, so nothing is sent anywhere. It also means there's no upload wait: a 25 MB scan converts as fast as your device can decode it, and a batch of them doesn't sit in someone else's queue.
How to convert
- Drop your TIFF files onto the tool, or click to choose them.
- Set the quality.
- Check the list; multi-page files show each page separately.
- Download each JPG, or the whole set as a zip.
If an upload form needs a much smaller file, run the JPGs through compress to 50 KB. The other converters and editors are on the tools page.
