Turn TIFF files into JPG directly in your browser and make them easier to use across websites and apps.
Web performance audits consistently identify oversized images as the number one preventable cause of slow page loads. A 15 MB TIFF embedded on a webpage forces every visitor to download that entire file before seeing your content. On a 4G mobile connection, that translates to approximately 8–12 seconds of load time for a single image.
Converting to JPG at quality level 80–85 typically produces files between 200 KB and 1.5 MB — loading in under one second on most connections. Google's Core Web Vitals penalize pages with Largest Contentful Paint times above 2.5 seconds. A single uncompressed TIFF on your homepage will almost certainly push you past that threshold.
TIFF exists for good reasons. Print production workflows, medical imaging, archival photography, and prepress environments all rely on its lossless compression and bit-depth support. Converting a TIFF destined for a printing press to JPG would be destructive.
But for these scenarios, TIFF is overkill:
Understanding the trade-offs helps you choose the right quality settings:
Bit depth: TIFF supports 8-bit, 16-bit, and 32-bit per channel. JPG is locked to 8-bit. For photographs, 8-bit captures the full visible color range. For HDR imagery or scientific visualization, the reduction to 8-bit can introduce banding in smooth gradients.
Compression: TIFF uses LZW or ZIP lossless compression — every pixel is preserved exactly. JPG uses DCT-based lossy compression that discards visual information deemed less important by the algorithm. The "less important" information is typically high-frequency detail that the human eye struggles to distinguish in natural scenes.
Transparency: TIFF supports alpha channels. JPG does not. If your TIFF has a transparent background, the conversion renders it as white (or black, depending on the viewer).
Color space: Both formats support standard RGB, CMYK, and various ICC profiles. However, wide-gamut color spaces (ProPhoto RGB, Adobe RGB) embedded in TIFF files may render differently in applications that assume sRGB when reading JPGs without embedded profiles.
Professional workflows rarely involve single files. A photographer returning from a shoot might have 200–500 TIFF images. Converting them individually is impractical.
Pixes supports batch upload — drag multiple TIFF files at once and the converter processes them sequentially, delivering each JPG for individual download. For extremely large batches (500+ files), consider these workflow tips:
Many organizations — especially in healthcare, legal, and government sectors — store scanned documents as multi-page TIFF files. These files bundle dozens or hundreds of pages into a single .tif container.
Sharing these files creates friction: recipients need specialized software to view them, the files are too large for email, and many document management systems accept only PDF or JPG formats.
Converting a multi-page TIFF to JPG produces individual image files for each page. For documents with more than 10 pages, a better workflow might be converting to PDF instead — but for shorter documents, presentations, or when only specific pages need sharing, individual JPGs provide maximum flexibility.
Tip: Scanned text at 300 DPI converts cleanly to JPG at 90–95% quality. Below 85% quality, text edges become noticeably soft, especially with serif fonts at small sizes.
A common concern when converting TIFF to JPG is color accuracy. Designers working in Adobe RGB or ProPhoto RGB color spaces worry that the conversion will shift colors.
Here is what actually happens: The conversion preserves the embedded ICC profile in the JPG output. When viewed in color-managed applications (Photoshop, Lightroom, modern browsers), the colors render identically. Problems arise only when software assumes sRGB for a file that actually contains a different profile — this is an application issue, not a conversion issue.
For screen-only distribution, converting to sRGB during the TIFF-to-JPG process often makes more sense than preserving the original wide-gamut profile. sRGB displays correctly on virtually every device without color management support, while Adobe RGB files may appear washed out on unmanaged screens.