Convert JPG to TIFF Online
Upload a JPG or JPEG and get a .tif file that print shops, scanners and document systems accept. One thing to know up front: the pixel data inside our TIFF is still JPEG-compressed, so this is a format change, not a quality upgrade, and it cannot recover detail the original JPG already threw away.
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Why People Convert JPG to TIFF
Nobody converts a JPG to TIFF to make the photo better. The reason is nearly always a rule somewhere: a commercial printer whose prepress workflow only ingests TIFF, an academic journal or patent office that specifies .tif for figures, a scanning and archiving system or OCR pipeline that expects TIFF, or an old imaging application that was written before anyone cared about JPEG. TIFF is the format those systems settled on decades ago, and they rarely budge.
What happens here: sharp, running on libvips on our servers, decodes the JPEG, applies the EXIF orientation to the pixels so the image is stored upright, and writes a TIFF using its default encoder. That default is JPEG compression at about quality 80, 8-bit YCbCr, which means your photo goes through a second lossy encode on the way into the TIFF. The original JPG remains the better master of the two. There are no settings to adjust on this page, no compression chooser and no quality field.
What is preserved is the geometry and the look: the width and height in pixels are untouched, nothing is cropped or resampled, and at normal viewing sizes the TIFF is visually the same photo. What is lost is metadata and headroom. No EXIF is written into the TIFF, so the capture date, camera model and GPS coordinates do not travel with it; wide-gamut source data such as Adobe RGB is converted to sRGB, and a CMYK JPEG is converted to sRGB too, which matters if the print shop expected CMYK separations. The TIFF is also not uncompressed, not 16-bit, and does not carry an alpha channel, since JPG has no transparency to begin with.
How to Convert JPG to TIFF
- Start from the best JPG you have, straight out of the camera or phone rather than a copy that has been re-saved or shared through a messaging app, since every re-save adds compression that the TIFF will inherit.
- Add your files here. .jpg, .jpeg and .jfif are all accepted, up to 10 files per request and 50 MB each as a guest, or 100 MB per file with a free account.
- Run the conversion. These files are small work for the server and usually finish a second or two after the upload, each JPG producing its own .tif.
- Download each TIFF from the results list; the links work for about four hours.
- Open one in the application that asked for TIFF before you submit the whole set, and if that application needs an embedded colour profile or CMYK data, add it there, since we write sRGB with no profile.
What the Converter Handles
- Accepts .jpg, .jpeg and .jfif, including progressive JPEGs and CMYK JPEGs, which are converted to sRGB
- Writes a JPEG-compressed TIFF (8-bit YCbCr) that mainstream tools such as Photoshop, Preview and ImageMagick open directly
- Rotates the pixels according to the EXIF orientation flag, so photos taken sideways are stored upright
- Keeps the original pixel dimensions exactly: no resizing, cropping or re-framing
- Produces a compact .tif, because the pixels are re-encoded as JPEG inside the TIFF container instead of being stored uncompressed
- Converts a batch in one request with no software to install; free, with no sign-up required
Video Tutorial
Watch this step-by-step tutorial to learn how to convert JPG files to TIFF format online for free using MiConvert.com. No software installation required.
JPG to TIFF: Questions We Get
Can I convert JPG to TIFF without losing quality?
The TIFF we write is JPEG-compressed at roughly quality 80, so there is a second lossy encode. On a photo that is subtle; on screenshots, scanned text or graphics with hard edges it can be visible. If you need a genuinely lossless TIFF from your JPG, do the conversion in Photoshop, GIMP or ImageMagick and choose LZW or Deflate compression. Keeping the JPG untouched as the master is also a legitimate answer.
Will converting to TIFF make the photo higher quality or add pixels?
No. Detail discarded by the original JPEG encoder cannot come back, and we never change the pixel dimensions: a 1200-pixel-wide JPG becomes a 1200-pixel-wide TIFF. Searches for converting a JPG to an enhanced TIFF are really asking for an upscaler, which this page is not, and our resize tool only shrinks images, it never enlarges them.
How do I get a 300 dpi or 600 dpi TIFF?
There is no DPI control here. DPI only describes how many of the existing pixels go into each printed inch, so the practical question is whether the image has enough pixels for the print size you need: 300 dpi at 8 inches wide means 2400 pixels. Set the resolution field in your editor or in the print dialog after conversion.
Does the TIFF keep the EXIF data and GPS location?
No. The TIFF is written without EXIF and without an ICC profile, so the capture date, camera settings and any location tag are not carried over. If you need that information, keep the JPG alongside the TIFF, or re-attach metadata in your editor.
Is the TIFF going to be huge?
Not the way most people expect. Because the pixels are re-encoded as JPEG inside the container, the .tif is typically in the same size range as the source rather than the many-megabyte uncompressed TIFF a print shop might be used to. If a recipient specifically requires uncompressed or LZW TIFF, produce it on your desktop.
My print shop wants CMYK TIFF. Can you do that?
No. Output here is sRGB, and even a CMYK JPEG is converted to sRGB on the way in. CMYK separation is a prepress step that depends on the press profile, so it should be done in Photoshop or by the printer.
How many files can I convert at once?
Up to 10 per request as a guest or with a free account, 25 on Plus and 50 on Pro. Guest and free use is also limited to 10 conversion jobs per hour from one IP address, and each TIFF is downloaded individually, since there is no zip-all option.
What happens to my files after conversion?
Everything runs on our servers after upload, not in your browser. The JPG you uploaded is deleted as soon as the job finishes, and the TIFF stays available through a random download link for about four hours before it is deleted automatically. File names, sizes and outcomes appear in our operational logs, and signed-in accounts keep a conversion history row.