Convert BMP to JPG
Convert BMP images to JPG free, in your browser. No upload, no account, no watermark.
Runs in your browser. Nothing is uploaded.Change the format. Drop an image, a PDF or a Word document.
- JPG · PNG · WebP · Text · Word
- Word
- PDF · Text
Your files are processed by your own browser and never sent to a server. Open your browser's network tab and convert one, there is no upload to see.
How to convert BMP to JPG
- Drop your BMP files onto the box above, or paste them with Ctrl+V.
- Pick a quality. Around 90% is indistinguishable from the original for most images.
- Your browser does the work on your own machine.
- Save each file from its tile, or take them all at once.
What changes, and what does not
Detail is thrown away for the first time
BMP keeps every pixel exactly. JPG does not, and that is the point of it: the file gets far smaller because detail your eye is worst at noticing is discarded. Keep the original if you may need to edit it again.
Colour
BMP: 16.7 million, usually stored with no compression whatsoever. JPG: 16.7 million, with no transparency at all.
BMP and JPG side by side
| BMP | JPG | |
|---|---|---|
| Where it came from | 1987, as part of Windows | 1992, from the Joint Photographic Experts Group |
| Throws detail away | No, every pixel is kept | Yes |
| Transparency | No | No |
| Animation | No | No |
| Where it opens | Windows software. Rare on the web, because the files are enormous. | Everywhere, on everything, including hardware old enough to vote |
| Best at | Almost nothing today. It exists because old Windows tools still emit it. | Photographs, and anything going somewhere you cannot predict |
How much smaller will the file be?
Expect a large drop. A photograph saved as BMP carries every pixel exactly, and JPG does not need to, so falls of eighty or ninety per cent are ordinary. A screenshot or a logo will fall much less, because BMP was already efficient at flat colour and hard edges, and may even grow.
Can I convert it back afterwards?
Not to the same file, no. Going to JPG discards detail permanently, and converting the result back to BMP gives you a BMP of the damaged picture rather than the original. Keep the original if there is any chance you will need to edit it again.
About BMP
An uncompressed Windows format. Enormous files, no reason to keep them that way.
About JPG
The safest choice: every device, upload form and printer accepts it.
Will the quality change?
JPG is lossy, so the image is decoded and re-encoded and a little detail is dropped. At high quality this is invisible. Convert once from your original rather than repeatedly, because each pass compounds.
What happens to transparency?
JPG cannot store it. Any transparent area is filled with the colour you choose in the panel, which defaults to white. If you need the transparency kept, convert to PNG, WebP or AVIF instead.
Other conversions
BMP also converts to PNG, WebP, AVIF, PDF and Word.
JPG also comes from HEIC, PNG, WebP, AVIF and GIF.