Convert JPG Photos Into TIFF Files
Wraps your JPG's pixels in an uncompressed TIFF container using the UTIF library, for print workflows and archives that require the format. Done in the browser, with no file leaving your device.
About the JPG to TIFF Converter
Some workflows will only accept TIFF. Print bureaux, certain publishing and prepress systems, and archival standards in libraries and government all specify it, because TIFF is a stable, well-documented container that can hold image data without lossy compression. If you have a JPG and a system asking for a TIFF, this produces one.
It is worth being honest about what this conversion can and cannot do. It reads the JPG, decodes it to pixels, and writes those pixels into a TIFF using UTIF. The result is a valid TIFF that the receiving system will accept — but the image quality inside it is still the quality of the JPG you started with.
Key Features
- Standards-compliant TIFF output: The pixels are written into a proper TIFF container with UTIF, so the file is accepted by the print and archival systems that require the format.
- Uncompressed image data: The output stores the pixels without further lossy compression, which is what archival and prepress specifications typically demand.
- Batch conversion: Convert a set of JPGs at once and receive them together as a ZIP.
- No quality slider, by design: TIFF here is a container rather than a compressor, so there is nothing to trade off — the pixels are written as they are.
- Handles a format browsers will not export: Browsers cannot save TIFF natively, so the file is built by a dedicated library to make the conversion possible at all.
- Local conversion: Decoding and TIFF encoding both run in the tab, so a photograph headed for a print house is not uploaded on the way.
How to Use the JPG to TIFF Converter
- Add one or more .jpg files.
- Press Convert Now.
- Download the TIFF, or the ZIP for a batch.
How It Works
The key thing to understand is that converting to TIFF does not restore quality that JPG compression already removed. JPG is lossy — when the photo was first saved as a JPG, detail was discarded, and that detail is gone. Wrapping those pixels in a TIFF gives you a lossless container around a lossy image: the TIFF will not lose anything further, but it cannot recover what the JPG never kept. Anyone expecting a TIFF to look better than the source JPG will be disappointed, and the file will be far larger for no gain in detail.
That larger size is the second thing to expect. Because the TIFF stores pixels uncompressed, the output is much bigger than the JPG — often by a factor of ten or more, since you are removing JPG's compression without adding TIFF's optional compression. This is normal and is usually what the receiving workflow wants.
The TIFF is written as a single-page, standard-orientation file. If your JPG carries an orientation flag in its metadata, that is applied during decoding so the TIFF comes out the right way up rather than relying on the flag.
When You Need It
A photographer delivering to a magazine is told the production system ingests TIFF only, even though the shots were supplied to them as JPGs by a picture agency. Converting produces files the system will accept without a back-and-forth over formats. The images are under licence for a specific issue, so a conversion that stays on the photographer's machine avoids distributing licensed work through a third-party service.
An archivist depositing records with an institution finds the preservation standard mandates TIFF for image files, regardless of the format the images arrived in. Converting the JPGs to compliant TIFFs meets the deposit requirement, and doing it locally keeps a collection that may contain sensitive personal records off any external server during processing.