How to Convert TIFF to JPG for Free
A TIFF file can be ten or twenty times the size of the same photo as a JPG. That is fine for a print shop or a scanner, but useless for a website, an email or a phone. Here is how to convert TIFF to JPG free, in your browser, with no upload.
What is TIFF, and why is it so big?
TIFF is the format scanners, cameras and print shops use when they want to lose nothing. It is lossless and it can hold far more colour information than a JPG. The price is size: a single scanned page or a camera photo can be tens of megabytes. Most websites, email services and phones simply will not accept a TIFF at all.
Convert TIFF to JPG in three steps
- Open the TIFF to JPG converter. There is nothing to install and no sign-up form.
- Drop in your TIFF files (one, or a whole batch). Each file appears with a thumbnail preview, its name and its size.
- Click Convert, then download. Download files one by one, or take them all as a single ZIP.
Your files never leave your device — the conversion happens entirely in your browser.
Quality: how to keep it high
JPG is lossy, so the converter lets you set the quality. For a scanned document or a photo you plan to keep, 90 percent is a good choice: the file becomes a small fraction of the TIFF's size and the difference is invisible. For a website, 80 to 85 percent is usually plenty. If the TIFF is a document with text, keep the quality at 90 percent or above so the letters stay crisp.
TIFF to PNG instead?
If you need every pixel exactly preserved — for example, a scanned document you will edit again — convert to PNG instead with the TIFF to PNG converter. PNG is lossless like TIFF but far more widely supported. The file will be bigger than a JPG, but still much smaller than the TIFF.