How to save WebP as JPG or PNG in Chrome

Chrome saves images in the format the site sent, and that's often WebP. To get a JPG or PNG, you convert the image: as you save it, with an extension, or afterwards, with an app you already have.

First: JPG or PNG?

PNG keeps every pixel and any transparent background. Files are bigger. Best for logos, screenshots and graphics.
JPG is smaller and opens everywhere. Best for photos. It has no transparency, so transparent areas get a solid colour, usually white.

Not sure? Pick PNG. It never loses anything.

With an extension, in one step

An extension can convert the image as you save it, straight from the right-click menu. Here's how it works with ours.

Our extension

Imgkeep

Add Imgkeep to Chrome from the Chrome Web Store.
Right-click the image and choose Imgkeep: Save image as.
Pick PNG or JPG. The file is saved to your Downloads folder.

In Options you can send images to a folder you pick instead, or choose where each time. You can also set the JPG quality, the background colour transparent images get as JPG (white by default), and file names like {name}-{w}x{h}. It never overwrites an existing file. Conversion happens on your computer; nothing is uploaded. Free and open source.

Add Imgkeep to Chrome — free Works in Chrome 116 and newer.

Without an extension

Windows: Paint

Save the image as usual (right-click › Save image as…).
Right-click the saved file, choose Open with › Paint.
File › Save as, then JPEG picture or PNG picture.

If the image had a transparent background, check the result: Paint may not keep it.

Mac: Preview

Save the image, then open it in Preview (on older macOS versions, Preview may not open WebP).
File › Export, and set Format to JPEG or PNG.

Any computer: copy and paste

Right-click the image, choose Copy image, and paste it into an image editor, then save as JPG or PNG. In Preview, use File › New from Clipboard. It skips the WebP file entirely, but transparency may be lost.

Online converters

They work, but you upload the image to someone else's server. Fine for public pictures; think twice for anything private.

If it still won't open

Renaming photo.webp to photo.jpg doesn't convert it. It's still WebP inside, and many apps will refuse it. The reverse also happens: a site can send WebP from an address ending in .jpg. Here's why Chrome saves images as WebP.

If you can't save an image at all, it may exist only inside the page (a blob: address). Extensions without access to the page, Imgkeep included, can't read those. A screenshot works.

Questions

Does converting WebP to JPG lose quality?

PNG keeps the pixels exactly as they are. JPG compresses again, so there's a small loss, usually invisible at high quality settings.

What about animated WebP?

JPG and PNG can't hold animation, so a converted animated WebP becomes a still image of one frame. To keep it moving, save it as GIF instead: in Imgkeep, choose GIF (keeps animation).

Can I make Chrome always save JPG?

No. Chrome has no setting for the format of saved images. It saves the file the site sent. The same goes for AVIF: see how to save AVIF as JPG or PNG.