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Transparent PNG pixels must be composited before JPG encoding. White is the default, with black and custom colors available.
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Turn PNG images into JPG locally and choose how transparent pixels should look.
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The practical guide
PNG is lossless and excellent for transparency or crisp graphics. JPG is often smaller for photographs but cannot preserve transparent areas.
Transparent PNG pixels must be composited before JPG encoding. White is the default, with black and custom colors available.
JPG usually suits photographs. Logos, screenshots, diagrams, and text-heavy graphics can look sharper in PNG.
JPG discards some detail to reduce size. Inspect the preview and adjust quality rather than assuming one setting suits every image.
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The selected files, inputs, settings, and outputs are processed in this page and are not uploaded to any server.
Questions, answered
No. The selected image is decoded and re-encoded inside this browser tab. The file and output are not uploaded to any server.
No. JPG has no alpha channel, so transparent pixels must be filled with a background color.
Not always. Simple graphics can already be more efficient as PNG.