Picture Batch TIFF to JPG
TIFF to JPG
TIFF is the format scanners, fax gateways, microscopes and print workflows produce, and no web browser can display one. That single fact is why this conversion exists: a TIFF that will not preview in an email client, will not upload to a web form and will not open on a phone becomes a JPEG that does all three.
Drop TIFF images here
TIFF files — or any of PNG, JPEG, WebP, AVIF, BMP, ICO, GIF or camera raw (CR2, CR3, NEF, ARW, DNG, RAF, ORF, RW2). Everything runs on this device.
Your images never leave this device. They are decoded and re-encoded by your own browser, and the security policy on every page blocks this site from sending them anywhere.
Lossy, no transparency, opens absolutely everywhere, small for photographs.
The standard range for photographs. Hard to distinguish from the original.
Images keep their original dimensions.
JPEG cannot store transparency. Nothing in the queue currently has transparent pixels, so this has no effect yet.
Exif is carried across where both formats can hold it. Nothing currently in the queue has any.
TIFF metadata cannot be read by this tool, so there is nothing to carry across. Orientation is still applied to the pixels.
What happens to your image
Expect a much smaller file than a lossless source, at the cost of some detail.
| Property | Outcome |
|---|---|
| Transparency | Not preserved: Lost. JPEG cannot store it, so transparent areas are filled with a background colour you choose. This cannot be undone in the output. |
| Image quality | Partly preserved: JPEG is lossy: the image is re-compressed and detail is discarded to make the file smaller. The quality control decides how much. |
| Colour | Partly preserved: Converted to sRGB. Decoding an image colour-manages it into the browser's own space, so the output is sRGB and is left untagged, which every viewer reads as sRGB. A wide-gamut source is reported before conversion. |
| Exif metadata | Not preserved: TIFF metadata is not read by this tool, so there is nothing to carry across. |
| Orientation | Preserved: Applied to the pixels, and the tag is reset to upright afterwards so nothing rotates the image a second time. |
| Multiple pages | Not preserved: Only the first page is converted. |
TIFF is a filing system pretending to be a format
A file ending in .tif can be uncompressed, LZW, Deflate, PackBits, JPEG or one of several fax encodings. Its pixels can be greyscale, RGB, CMYK, palette colour, or a bare transparency mask, at one, four, eight, sixteen or thirty-two bits per sample, stored in strips or in tiles, with any number of pages. Almost nothing supports all of it.
The decoder used here handles the great majority of what real scanners and editors produce, including CMYK and palette-colour images, which it converts to RGB for output. Where it meets something it genuinely cannot read — CCITT fax compression, floating-point samples, some old-style JPEG variants — it says which feature stopped it rather than reporting a generic failure.
Only the first page is converted
Multi-page TIFFs are common: a scanned contract is usually one file with one page per sheet. Only the first is converted, and the queue tells you how many pages it found so you know what you are not getting.
For a genuinely multi-page document, a TIFF-to-PDF tool is the right shape of tool, not an image converter.
Quality is set higher here than elsewhere on this site
The default for this pair is 88 rather than 85, because TIFFs are usually scans, and scans usually contain text. JPEG compresses smooth photographic areas beautifully and hard black-on-white edges badly — the ringing around letterforms is the most recognisable JPEG artefact there is.
If the scan is mostly text, consider PNG instead: lossless, no ringing, and for a page of black text on white it will often be smaller than the JPEG as well.
If something goes wrong
"This TIFF uses a feature the decoder does not support."
Most often CCITT Group 3 or Group 4 fax compression, which is common in scanned documents from older systems.
What to do: Open it in any desktop image editor and re-save it with LZW or no compression, then convert that.
The colours are wrong — washed out or inverted.
The file is CMYK, or uses a "white is zero" photometric interpretation that some encoders write incorrectly.
What to do: CMYK is converted to RGB, which shifts colours somewhat because CMYK covers a different range. For colour-critical print work, convert in software that can apply the correct profile.
The file is refused for being too large.
Uncompressed TIFFs are enormous — a 200 megapixel scan is 600 MB and would need 800 MB just for its decoded pixels.
What to do: The ceiling here is 80 megapixels. Above that, a desktop tool is the right answer; a browser tab cannot be given that much memory reliably.
Questions
Is TIF the same as TIFF?
Yes. Both extensions name the same format, and both are accepted here.
Can I convert a multi-page TIFF into several JPGs?
Not with this tool — only the first page is converted, and the queue tells you how many pages the file has so nothing disappears silently.
Will converting to JPG reduce the quality of my scan?
Yes. JPEG is lossy, and a TIFF usually is not. At quality 88 the loss is hard to see on a photograph and visible on sharp text. For an archival copy, convert to PNG instead.