When a JPG has to become a TIFF
The request almost always comes from someone else: a print shop that only accepts TIFF artwork, a journal with a figure-format policy, a stock agency, a records department digitizing paperwork. JPG is what cameras, phones, and design exports hand you; TIFF is what those workflows are built around. Converting is a two-minute job, and this page does it without a desktop editor or an upload form.
What conversion can and cannot fix
This is worth being blunt about: TIFF is a lossless format, but it cannot undo compression that already happened. A JPG threw away detail at the moment it was saved, and wrapping the decoded result in a TIFF preserves exactly what is left — no new artifacts, but no recovered sharpness either. The output satisfies a TIFF-required rule; it does not turn a heavily compressed photo into a master file. If the camera raw, the original TIFF, or a PNG export still exists somewhere, convert from that instead.
Size, previewing, and how it runs
The TIFF is written uncompressed at your image’s original dimensions, so a 3 MB JPG can easily become a 40 MB TIFF — expected, and part of why archives like the format. Browsers cannot display TIFF, so the downloaded file will not preview in a tab; open it in Photos, Preview, or an image editor. Decoding and encoding both happen in a Web Worker on your own device, three files at a time, with before and after sizes shown per file and a ZIP for the whole batch. No account, no watermark, no daily cap.