Convert TIFF to JPG
A .tif from a scanner, a camera or an archive opens in almost nothing — not your browser, not most upload forms, not the CMS you are trying to paste it into. This decodes the file here on your device and gives you ordinary JPGs, one per page, with no upload and no queue.
Drop TIFF files here
.tif / .tiff · multi-page allowed · output is JPG
How to convert TIFF to JPG
- Drop the
.tiffiles — as many as you like, multi-page included. - Leave quality at 0.9 unless the result is going to print, where 0.95 is worth the bytes.
- Click Convert & download. A multi-page scan produces one JPG per page; Download all zips them.
What this decoder handles
The label under each result tells you what the file actually was — compression, bit depth and colour model — which is often the first useful thing anyone has told you about that file.
- Uncompressed, LZW, Deflate (ZIP) and PackBits, which between them cover almost every TIFF in circulation.
- Horizontal differencing, the predictor Photoshop applies with LZW. Ignoring it turns a photo into coloured smears rather than into an error, which is why some converters "work" and produce nonsense.
- Tiles as well as strips, including the partial tiles along the right and bottom edges of an image whose size is not a multiple of the tile size.
- Planar layout — all the reds, then all the greens, then all the blues.
- 1, 2, 4, 8 and 16 bits per sample, greyscale in either polarity, RGB, palette, CMYK (the format print shops send) and alpha, premultiplied or not.
- Both byte orders, and the orientation tag, so a page scanned sideways comes out the right way up.
TIFF or JPG — which do you actually want?
TIFF is an archival format: lossless, high bit depth, layered, and enormous. JPG is a delivery format: lossy, 8-bit, and a tenth of the size. Converting is the right move when the destination is a website, an email, a form or a phone. It is the wrong move when the file is your only master copy — keep the TIFF, send the JPG. If the page is text or line art rather than a photograph, PNG keeps the edges crisp where JPEG blurs them.
FAQ
Why will nothing open my .tif file?
Because TIFF is a container rather than a single format. The extension covers a dozen different compressions and several pixel layouts, so a program that reads one .tif may fail on the next. Browsers gave up on it entirely — no major browser displays TIFF. This page decodes the common variants itself and hands you a JPG.
My TIFF has several pages. What happens to them?
Each page becomes its own JPG, numbered — page-1, page-2 and so on — and the whole set can be downloaded as one ZIP. Scanned documents are almost always multi-page TIFFs, which is why this is the default. Switch to "the first page only" if you just want the cover.
Will converting lose quality?
Yes, once: TIFF is usually lossless and JPG is not. At quality 0.9 the difference is invisible on a photograph or a scan of a document. If the file is line art or text, consider PNG instead — sharp edges are what JPEG handles worst.
Which TIFFs will not convert?
Fax-compressed ones (CCITT Group 3 and Group 4), BigTIFF (the 64-bit variant for files over 4 GB), floating-point scientific TIFFs, and JPEG 2000. The status line names the exact reason rather than failing vaguely. ImageMagick or libtiff will convert any of those to a plain TIFF that this page reads.
Are my files uploaded?
No. The decoder runs in your browser and the files never touch a server. That matters more for TIFF than for most formats — it is what scanned contracts, medical images and archive masters are stored in.