Format cheat sheet
- JPEG — smallest for photos, no transparency, lossy.
- PNG — lossless, supports transparency, larger for photos.
- WebP — small and supports transparency, but not accepted everywhere.
How the format is verified
After encoding, the tool reads the first bytes of the result and compares them with the signature of the requested format. If they disagree, no download is offered. This is why a renamed file can never pass as a conversion.