AI to JPG
Convert an Adobe Illustrator .ai file to JPG in your browser at the resolution you choose. Each artboard becomes an image. No upload, no watermark, no Illustrator needed.
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Don't take our word for it. Turn off your Wi‑Fi, then use this tool. It will work exactly the same, which is only possible because your file never goes anywhere.
Worth knowing
JPG has no transparency. Anything transparent in the artwork comes out white — use AI to PNG if you need the background to stay clear.
Colours shift slightly, because Illustrator artwork is usually CMYK and images are RGB.
Why this works without Illustrator
An .ai file saved by any modern version of Illustrator contains a full PDF rendition of the artwork — Adobe writes it in automatically so other software can read the file. That means the artwork can be rendered here the same way a PDF page is, at whatever resolution you ask for, without needing to understand Illustrator's own format at all.
Choosing a resolution
This is the only decision that matters, and it is worth thirty seconds of thought because it cannot be undone later. A JPG is a fixed grid of pixels: export too small and enlarging it afterwards produces mush, because the detail was never recorded.
- 96 DPI — a thumbnail, a forum avatar, something that will only ever be small.
- 150 DPI — the sensible default for websites, email and slides.
- 300 DPI — print. Leaflets, business cards, anything going near a printing press.
- 600 DPI — large-format prints, or when you want room to scale down cleanly.
JPG or PNG?
The deciding question is transparency. JPG cannot store it at all — every transparent area becomes solid white. For a logo that has to sit on a coloured background, that white box is exactly the problem people spend an afternoon trying to remove afterwards.
So: JPG for artwork with a full background, like an illustration or a poster mock-up, where it makes usefully smaller files. PNG for logos, icons and anything cut out. If you are unsure, PNG is the safer of the two.
JPG also re-compresses lossily every time it is saved. Export once from the original artwork rather than editing and re-saving a JPG repeatedly.
Several artboards
Each artboard is exported as its own image, numbered in the order Illustrator had them, and the set comes back as a zip. A logo file with six variants gives you six JPGs in one download rather than six trips through the tool.
What changes
Colours shift slightly, because Illustrator artwork is usually CMYK and images are RGB — the two describe colour differently and no conversion between them is exact. And the result is a flat image: no layers, no editable text, no scaling without loss. Keep the .ai file, always. It is the only version you can still change.
If you need transparency, use AI to PNG. If you want a file that stays sharp at any size, AI to PDF keeps the artwork as vectors.
Questions people ask
What resolution should I choose?
150 DPI is right for screens and email. Choose 300 if it is going to print. Higher than that mostly costs file size, since the artwork is being flattened either way.
Why is my JPG background white instead of transparent?
JPG cannot store transparency at all — it is a limitation of the format, not of this tool. Use AI to PNG, which can.
I have six artboards. What do I get?
Six JPGs, zipped together and numbered in artboard order.
Does the file leave my computer?
No. The artwork is rendered by this browser tab. You can turn off your Wi-Fi and it still works.