If you have ever asked if JPEG and JPG are separate file types, this is a frequent question. It is one of the most frequent queries in photo editing, and the response is simple: JPEG and JPG are exactly the same format.
The only difference is the file extension — a short leftover of old Windows versions that could not handle longer file extensions. Even so, there are still scenarios when you might need to rename or convert images from .jpeg to .jpg.
JPEG is short for Joint Photographic Experts Group, the organization that created the format in 1992. Legacy versions of Windows needed file extensions to be only three characters, which is why the extension became JPG.
Nowadays, both file types are recognized by any OS, browser and software. Whether a image is named image.jpg or image.jpeg, it displays the same way.
Despite being the same file type, certain legacy software only accept .jpg extensions and will not accept .jpeg extensions due to the suffix. For these situations, read more converting the extension from .jpeg to .jpg is enough.
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