Convert camera RAW files to JPG
RAW files hold the sensor data straight from the camera. They need to be "developed" into a normal picture before most programs can show them. The converter does that with LibRaw, the open-source RAW library, and saves the result as JPG (or PNG, TIFF, WebP and more).
- Upload RAW files (DNG, CR2, CR3, CRW, NEF, NRW, ARW, SRF, SR2, ORF, RW2, RWL, RAF, PEF, SRW, 3FR, IIQ, ERF, KDC, DCR, MRW, MOS, MEF) or a ZIP of a folder.
- Keep “JPG / JPEG” and quality 92, or choose TIFF or PNG for further editing.
- Click Convert.
How the picture is developed
- White balance: the camera's own setting, as it was when you took the photo.
- Colours: converted to standard sRGB, the colour space every screen and browser expects.
- Demosaicing: AHD, a high-quality method that rebuilds full colour from the sensor's colour filter pattern.
- Brightness: set automatically, the way most RAW viewers do by default.
- Orientation: photos taken in portrait orientation come out upright.
The result looks like a neutral, straight-from-camera picture, not like the camera's own JPG, which applies its own style (contrast, sharpening, picture profiles). For creative editing, use a RAW editor; this converter is for quickly getting usable files.
Good to know
- Developing a RAW file takes a few seconds per photo; a batch of many photos takes a while.
- 16-bit TIFF output isn't produced from RAW here; the developed picture has 8 bits per colour.
- Very new camera models may not be supported yet by LibRaw; you get a clear message if a file can't be developed.
- Camera info (EXIF) isn't copied from RAW files.
More about what this tool reads and writes: Image Converter.