Ever thought of converting HEIC files to JPG on your Mac? If your answer is yes or no, first let us talk about what is HEIC file. High-Efficiency Image File Format (HEIF) which is also known as High-Efficiency Image Coding (HEIC), is a file format for individual images and image sequences. This HEIC file format was developed by the Moving Picture Experts Group popularly known as MPEG. The MPEG group claims that the HEIF files can store twice as much information which stores in a JPEG image of the same size. Hence, this results in providing HEIF a better quality image. HEIF image files are stored with filename extensions .heif or .heic.
Further, as said above that HEIC files are smaller in size than JPEG even when compressed. For example, a 3.5 MB HEIC image file might end up as a 4.5 MB JPEG file even at 80% image quality. These sizes are of a rough calculation, though the exact file size will obviously change as per image and its file. Further, if you are using only Mac, it will be better to continue in the HEIC format, because it helps you in saving storage spaces. Even though JPEG is often most suitable for maximum compatibility for other devices and with the web. As most of the Mac OS users are running on low storage due to the lack of HDD in it.
Apple has started using the HEIC image format since 2011. Even if you are living in an Apple Ecosystem when you transfer it into your Mac, you may need a universal image format. Coming back to our point, sometimes you may need to change the HEIF / HEIC file which may be sent by someone using an iPhone into other formats for universal compatibility. With this article, we aim to teach our readers for converting a HEIC file to a JPEG file on the Mac with using the Preview app, where this app is pre-installed in every Mac OS. Now let us start with converting HEIC into JPEG.
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How to Convert HEIC to JPEG on Mac with Preview App
- First, choose your desired HEIC image and open the selected HEIC image in Preview app which is seen in your Mac
- Now after opening and selecting, the pull down the “File” menu and now click on “Export”
- After this Open the submenu for “Format” and choose “JPEG” as the file format and after choosing this, now adjust the quality as desired then click on “Save”
- Now you can see the converted JPEG file in the location, wherefrom your HEIC file was imported to the preview app
For these multiple HEIC files, you can use the batch image file conversion capabilities of Preview to export and save multiple HEIC files as JPEG, or even PNG, TIFF, or other image file formats in the Preview app.
You’ll need a modern version of macOS to be able to open and read HEIC files with the Preview app. Older versions of the Preview application on earlier Mac OS releases may not work with HEIC file format.