Convert JPEG to TIFF
Free online converter for JPEG files. High-fidelity format used in print and archival work. Nothing to install, no watermark, and every file is deleted automatically.
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About JPG and TIFF
JPEG .jpg
The photographic standard since 1992. JPEG throws away detail your eye is least likely to miss, which is why a photograph saved as JPEG is a fraction of the size of the same image saved losslessly.
Good for
- Opens everywhere — no format is more widely supported
- Very small files for photographs and other continuous-tone images
- A quality dial, so you choose the trade against file size
Trade-offs
- Lossy: detail is discarded permanently, and re-saving repeatedly compounds it
- No transparency at all
- Sharp edges, flat colour and text pick up visible halos
image/jpeg
TIFF .tiff
A flexible container used wherever image fidelity matters more than file size — scanning, publishing and archives. A single TIFF can hold multiple pages.
Good for
- Lossless storage suitable for archival masters
- Multi-page, which suits scanned documents
- Standard in print, publishing and document capture
Trade-offs
- Very large files
- Poor support in browsers — effectively unusable on the web
- So flexible that not every reader supports every variant
image/tiff
JPG and TIFF side by side
| JPG | TIFF | |
|---|---|---|
| Compression | Lossy | Lossless (usually) |
| Transparency | No | Yes |
| Animation | No | No — but multi-page |
| Typically used for | Photographs, camera output, web images | Scanning, print production, archival masters |
What changes when you convert JPG to TIFF
Camera data is removed by default
A JPG straight from a phone or camera carries EXIF metadata — model, settings, timestamp and, quite often, the GPS coordinates of where the photo was taken. The converted TIFF is written without it, so a file you are about to share does not quietly carry your location. The orientation flag is read and applied to the pixels first, so the image will not come out sideways once the tag holding it is gone. If you need the metadata kept, there is a setting for it.
How the TIFF is written
Our default is quality 90 with LZW compression, which every print and scanning tool reads. The quality control on the converter moves this if you need to — the default aims to be indistinguishable from the source at a sensible file size, rather than to win a compression benchmark.
Quality cannot come back
JPG already discarded detail permanently, and TIFF stores exactly what it is given. The result will be considerably larger while sounding identical to the JPG you started from — lossless preserves, it does not restore. That is still the right move if you are about to edit, because further saves will not degrade it again.
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