DDS → JPG / online converter

DDS to JPG Converter

Convert a DDS game texture to a JPG you can view anywhere.

01 / how to

How to convert DDS to JPG

ADD YOUR DDS

Drop the DDS file into the box above or choose it from your device.

CONVERT TO JPG

JPG is already selected. Press Convert and wait a few seconds.

DOWNLOAD

Save the finished JPG file. The original is deleted from our server.

02 / what you get

What happens to your data

Kept

The main image of the texture is converted, with its transparency
Saved as a JPG at quality 80, a good balance between sharpness and file size
Opens on every device, in every app and on every website

Good to know

Only the first image is converted. Mipmaps and cube-map faces are ignored.
Textures that store data in separate channels (normal or specular maps) show those channels as colors and look unusual as ordinary pictures.
JPG is lossy and has no transparency.
Transparent areas become white, because the new format has no transparency.
The new format is lossy, so tiny pixel-level differences from the original are expected. Keep the original if you need exact pixels.

03 / formats

DDS vs JPG

DDS

A DDS file is a DirectDraw Surface — a texture format used by games and 3D engines (Unreal, Unity, Source). It is compressed so a graphics card can read it directly, which is why ordinary image viewers often can't open it.

Used in: Game textures · Unreal, Unity, Source · 3D engines

JPG

A JPG (or JPEG) file is the most common photo format — it compresses images by slightly reducing quality to keep file sizes small. It's what your phone camera, most cameras, and the web use by default for photos.

Used in: Photos & camera exports · Web pages & email · Social media uploads

04 / more

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