Convert TIFF to JPG Online

TIFF files are the professional standard for scanned documents, medical imaging, satellite imagery, and publishing workflows. They preserve every pixel at full depth (often 16 bits per channel vs JPEG's 8 bits) and can be very large - A scanned A4 page at 600 DPI as TIFF is typically 50–150 MB. Converting to JPG reduces this to 1–5 MB for screen sharing and web use.

The conversion from TIFF to JPG is one of the most common tasks in professional photography workflows. Photographers shoot in RAW (or work in TIFF for editing), then export final deliverables as JPG for client sharing, social media, and web galleries. The JPG retains 8-bit colour depth (sufficient for display) at a fraction of the file size.

Multi-page TIFFs (used for multi-page scanned documents) require special handling. Each page can be extracted as a separate JPG, similar to converting a multi-page PDF. This is particularly common when digitising books, contracts, or historic documents that were scanned as a single TIFF file.

TIFF (Tagged Image File Format) was created in 1986 by Aldus Corporation (later merged into Adobe) to standardize scanner output for desktop publishing on PageMaker. Its tag-based container could embed multiple resolutions, color spaces, ICC profiles, and even vector annotations, which made it the default deliverable for print shops, medical imaging (DICOM extensions), GIS, and museum archives. Adobe still publishes the TIFF 6.0 specification (1992) unchanged. Today TIFF remains the gold-standard archival raster format, but its multi-megabyte files and patchy browser support make it impractical for web delivery, which is why TIFF-to-JPG remains one of the most-requested production conversions.

TIFF files are the standard output of professional scanners, digital cameras in studio workflows, and medical imaging equipment. They are lossless, often 16-bit, and can easily reach 50–200 MB per image. Converting to JPG is the most common step for taking TIFF images from a production environment and making them web-ready or shareable without specialised software.

Photographers converting from TIFF to JPG typically do so after finishing all editing and colour correction, since JPG's lossy compression is fine for final delivery but not for ongoing editing. The conversion reduces a 100 MB TIFF to a 3–8 MB JPG that can be emailed, posted online, or submitted to stock agencies.

Archives, museums, and libraries scan documents and artworks at high resolution to TIFF for preservation, then convert to JPG for online viewing portals, digital exhibitions, and research databases where download size matters. The TIFF master stays in the archive; the JPG is the public-facing copy.