Turn a Bulky PNG Into a Lightweight JPG
PNG is the format your screenshot tool, your design app and most "Save As" dialogs reach for first. It records every pixel exactly, which is wonderful for sharp edges and a problem for file size the moment the picture is a photo or a busy screenshot. One PNG export can run to several megabytes, and that is the file that bounces off an upload form or sits too heavy in an inbox. Converting it to JPG trades away the lossless precision you rarely need and hands back a file that is often five to ten times smaller, one that every browser, printer and phone already opens.
This tool reads each PNG, applies JPEG compression at the quality you set, and returns a standard .jpg. The default of 90 is high enough that the compression stays out of sight at normal viewing distance while still cutting the size hard. Pulling the slider down makes the file smaller and is fine for thumbnails or quick previews; if the picture is headed for print, leave it near the top where fine detail survives.
Not every PNG is worth converting, and it helps to know which ones gain the most. Photographs, screenshots that contain photos, and richly shaded artwork are the clear winners, since JPEG was designed for exactly that kind of continuous-tone content and shrinks it enormously. Flat material is the opposite story: a logo, a chart, a screenshot of text or a simple icon often looks crisper and weighs less left as a PNG, because JPEG's compression adds faint smudging around hard edges and fine lettering. If an image is mostly solid colour with sharp boundaries, keeping it as PNG is usually the smarter call.
What happens to a transparent background
JPG cannot store transparency, so any see-through areas in your PNG are painted solid white when the JPG is written. White is the safe assumption for documents and most pages, but when that transparent edge is the whole point, as with a logo that has to sit on a coloured banner, you want a format that keeps the alpha channel. PNG to WebP and PNG to AVIF both hold on to transparency while still reducing the file.
You can drop in up to 30 images at once. A single file comes back as a JPG; a batch arrives as a ZIP with each name matched to its original so nothing gets mixed up. Going the other direction, JPG to PNG reverses the trip, while Compress Image shrinks a JPG further without changing its format.