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PSD to JPG converter

Convert PSD to JPG in your browser. No upload and no account: the file never leaves your device, so the only size limit is your device’s memory.

I want JPG
90%
Icon sizes
How to make the SVG

Tracing suits logos, icons and flat artwork and scales cleanly. Photos are better kept as pixels inside the SVG.

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50%
Dither Scatters black dots to suggest gray, instead of a hard cut-off.
Advanced 5
Keep the animation For animated GIF, WebP and APNG sources. Turn off to save just the first frame.
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Mirror horizontally
Mirror vertically

For an exact width and height, use the Resize Image tool instead.

Bytes of your files sent anywhere: 0 B

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Read more about the PSD format and the JPG format, or see every image tool and all image conversions.

Should you convert PSD to JPG?

Do this for photographs, where JPG saves a lot of space for a difference that’s hard to see. Keep the PSD if the picture is a screenshot, a diagram or anything with text and hard edges, which JPG smudges.

JPG is also the more widely supported of the two: it opens everywhere, while PSD is has patchy support.

PSD is Photoshop’s layered working file; JPG is a lossy photo format that trades detail you can’t see for much smaller files. Use JPG for photographs you are sending, uploading or printing, especially when a form or app is fussy about formats.

PSD and JPG compared
Property PSD JPG
Compression Lossless Lossy
Transparency Yes No
Animation No No
Support Has patchy support Opens everywhere
Best for Keeping an image editable, layer by layer Photographs that need to open anywhere and stay reasonably small
Introduced 1990 1992

How to convert PSD to JPG

  1. 01

    Add your PSD

    Drop your PSD image onto the box, or click to choose it. It is read from your disk and stays there.

  2. 02

    Check the settings

    The output is already set to JPG. Change the quality if you want to; the defaults suit most files.

  3. 03

    Save the JPG

    Press convert and save the JPG. Several files come back together as a ZIP.

What changes when PSD becomes JPG

PSD keeps everything, JPG does not

PSD stores the picture exactly. JPG throws away detail to save space, and the quality setting decides how much. At the default of 90 almost nobody can tell on a photograph; on text, lines and flat color the loss shows sooner, as soft halos around edges.

JPG can’t hold transparency

Any transparent area in the PSD has to become a solid color, because JPG has no alpha channel. The background setting decides which color; white suits documents and most uploads, but pick the color of the page it will sit on if you know it, because it can’t be undone later.

You get the flattened image

Layers aren’t kept: the JPG is the merged picture Photoshop saved inside the PSD. Files saved with “Maximize compatibility” turned off have no merged picture, and only Photoshop can rebuild them.

A one-time engine download

PSD is read by FFmpeg compiled to WebAssembly, a 31 MB download the first time you convert one. It is cached afterwards, and the conversion still happens entirely on your device.

Expect a much smaller file

PSD: A layered design often runs to 50–500 MB. JPG: A 12-megapixel phone photo is usually 2–5 MB. Shrinking the file is often the main reason to make this conversion.

This page is put together from our notes on each format, choosing only what is true of PSD and JPG, so every pairing states the same facts the same way. How these pages are made.

Why it doesn’t upload

Changing a picture’s format is work your browser already knows how to do. Sending your photos to a server first only adds waiting and risk, so nothing is sent.

How to check for yourself

Worth knowing

  • About the PSD. Converting a PSD uses the flattened preview saved inside it. If the file was saved with “Maximize compatibility” turned off, that preview is blank and only Photoshop can rebuild it.
  • About the JPG. Re-saving a JPG again and again degrades it, because each save compresses the already compressed version. Keep an original and export to JPG once, at the end.
  • DDS, PSD, EXR, XWD and JPEG 2000 are read by the FFmpeg engine, a one-time 31 MB download.

Questions

Will converting PSD to JPG lose quality?

JPG is lossy, so some detail is discarded. The quality slider decides how much; the default of 90 is chosen so the difference is invisible in almost every photo.

What happens to a transparent background when converting PSD to JPG?

JPG has no transparency, so transparent areas are filled with the background color you choose, white by default.

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