What is TIFF to JPG conversion?
This tool converts TIFF (a high-quality format common in printing, scanning and professional photography) into JPG. Because most browsers can't open TIFF, the tool decodes it locally on your device and converts with no upload. TIFF is a high-quality, lossless format common in printing, scanning and professional photography. Quality is excellent but files are large, and most browsers cannot display it — converting to JPG or PNG makes it usable on the web and in everyday apps.
How to use it
- Select or drop in your TIFF (.tif/.tiff).
- The tool decodes it locally and converts to JPG.
- Click Download to save the JPG.
When to convert
When you need to put a scanned or pro-camera TIFF on the web, email it, or import it into software that doesn't support TIFF, converting to JPG is the easy fix. Choose PNG to keep the highest quality, or JPG for a small, shareable file.
When is TIFF to JPG the right move?
TIFF is the go-to format for scanned documents, print layouts and high-end camera output — beautiful quality, but files that easily run to tens of megabytes. That's too big for an email attachment and painfully slow on a web page. Converting to JPG usually shrinks the file to a fraction of its size, so it's easy to email, upload to a site or drop into a slide deck, and the recipient can open it without hunting for special software.
Two things to watch:
- JPG uses lossy compression, so text and fine line edges in a scan may pick up slight jaggies or color halos — think twice for contracts or technical drawings that must stay crisp.
- With a multi-page TIFF, usually only the first page is converted; the rest need to be handled separately.
A check you can run yourself: a TIFF’s size tells you nothing
Our three TIFF inputs weigh exactly the same, 2.75 MB each. Not a coincidence — multiply it out: 1200 × 800 × 3 + 128 = 2,880,128, width by height by three colour channels plus a header. An uncompressed TIFF simply lays every pixel down as it is, so a photograph, a UI screenshot and an illustration — three completely different pictures — come to the same byte count. The outputs pull them apart: photo 288.4 KB (-90%), screenshot 43.5 KB (-98%), illustration 24.1 KB (-99%). Identical inputs, outputs spanning more than tenfold. So a big TIFF is not evidence of a complex image; that number only describes dimensions. Two things to watch: this converter handles the first page only (the code decodes the first IFD and warns you when a file has more), and JPG has no transparency, so the code fills white before drawing.