Convert TIFF to JPG

Converting TIFF to JPG is worth doing when the destination matters more than the source. TIFF is built for scanning and print workflows, often multi-page and very large. JPG is built for photographs, where small files matter more than perfect fidelity. Which one you want depends entirely on where the image is going next.

TIFF is the scanning and print format, so these files are usually large and frequently multi-page. Converting to JPG makes each page a manageable file that opens anywhere, which is normally what is wanted when a scan needs emailing or uploading.

JPG has no transparency channel. Any transparent area in your TIFF file has to become a solid colour, and white is the usual result. For a logo intended to sit on a coloured background this is the difference between it working and it arriving in a white box, so if transparency matters, convert to PNG, WebP or AVIF instead.

TIFF files frequently contain more than one page, which is common with scans. Since JPG holds a single image, each page becomes its own file rather than being combined.

JPG compresses by discarding detail, so this conversion trades some fidelity for a much smaller file. At high quality settings the difference is invisible in photographs, though flat colour and sharp text can show artefacts. Keep the TIFF original as your master copy.

Compatibility is usually the whole reason for this conversion. TIFF is efficient but poorly supported, and plenty of websites, form portals and older applications reject it outright, while JPG is accepted essentially everywhere.

JPG is where you go for size. Coming from a lossless source you are making the one irreversible decision in this conversion, since detail discarded now cannot come back. That is usually the right trade for photographic content and the wrong one for screenshots and line art, where the edges are exactly what JPG handles worst.

TIFF can hold several images in one file and can use any of a number of internal compression schemes. Each is unpacked in turn, so a multi-page scan produces one output per page rather than a single merged image.

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