Convert RAW to JPG
A Pro feature: develop camera RAW files into pictures you can share, without installing anything.
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How it works
Add your images
Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection.
Pick a quality or a target size
Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need.
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A RAW file holds what the camera's sensor recorded, before the camera turned it into a picture. That is ideal for editing and useless for sharing: phones, browsers and most programs cannot show it. This page develops the file for you and returns a JPG at the sensor's full resolution.
Development uses the white balance the camera recorded at the moment of the shot and a colour description of that camera model, and applies the stored rotation. The result is a neutral, faithful picture, close to what the camera's own JPG would have looked like. It is not a substitute for a RAW editor: there is no highlight recovery or lens correction. Brightness, contrast, exposure and saturation can be adjusted in the editor before you download.
We have developed files from Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Panasonic, Olympus, Pentax and Leica cameras this way. If a camera is too new for the developer, you get the full-size preview the camera stored inside the RAW file instead, with a note saying so. Developing RAW files is part of the Pro plan, which takes files up to 200 MB each. Files are deleted within one hour.
What developing a RAW file involves
A camera sensor does not see colour. Each of its pixels sits under a tiny red, green or blue filter and measures the brightness of that one colour, so a RAW file is a mosaic in which two thirds of the colour information is missing at every point. Developing fills the gaps by comparing each pixel with its neighbours. It then corrects the colour cast of the light with the white balance the camera measured, translates the sensor's colours into standard sRGB using a description of that camera model, and compresses twelve or fourteen bits of brightness into the eight a JPG can hold.
Every one of those steps involves choices, which is why two programs never develop the same file identically. The choices here aim at a neutral picture with nothing pushed.
File sizes before and after
RAW files are large because they keep everything. A 24-megapixel camera writes 25 to 50 MB per shot depending on its compression setting, and a 45-megapixel body can pass 90 MB. Developed at this page's starting quality of 90, the same pictures become JPGs of roughly 6 to 15 MB, still at every pixel.
For sending, that is usually more than you need. Set Resize to 3000 pixels on the long side and a typical frame drops to about 2 MB, or use Target size to hit a limit exactly. One ceiling applies: files of more than 50 megapixels are developed at half their width and height, and the result says so.
Where this fits in a photographer's day
This is not a replacement for Lightroom or Capture One, and it is not meant to be. It is for the moments around the edit. A client wants to see the selects tonight and the edit is next week. You are travelling with a tablet and no RAW software. Someone handed you a card of files from a camera whose format your old editor does not know. A relative needs one of your pictures and has never heard of a NEF. Develop, download, send, and keep the RAW files for the real work.
Frequently asked questions
Which RAW formats can I convert?
CR2, CR3 and CRW (Canon), NEF (Nikon), ARW (Sony), RAF (Fujifilm), RW2 (Panasonic), ORF (Olympus), PEF (Pentax), DNG and the formats of many other makers.
Is the JPG the full resolution?
Yes, the whole sensor area is developed. Reduce it in the editor if you want a smaller copy.
Can I recover highlights or change white balance?
No. The file is developed with the camera's recorded settings. For that kind of work, use a RAW editor.
Is RAW conversion free?
No. Developing camera RAW files is part of the Pro plan. Every other format on this site, HEIC and PSD included, converts for free.
Does the JPG keep the shooting data, such as date and lens?
No. A developed picture does not carry the camera's metadata over. The RAW file keeps it all, which is one more reason to hold on to the originals.
Can I get a TIFF or PNG instead of a JPG?
Yes. Choose either in the Format menu. Both are lossless, at eight bits per channel, which suits further editing in programs that do not read RAW.