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CR2 to JPG converter

Convert Canon CR2 files to JPG or 16-bit TIFF in your browser. Full resolution, the camera's colour and brightness, a batch at once, and nothing is uploaded.

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CR2 to JPG, on this computer

Files are read and converted in this browser tab. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no limit but your computer's memory.

      Make the picture by

      Developing reads every photosite. The camera's JPEG is the picture it made when you pressed the shutter.

      Save as

      TIFF keeps 16 bits per channel for further editing; it is about six times the size of the RAW. DNG keeps the sensor data exactly as it is, for software that does not know your camera.

      Look

      What a CR2 file is

      CR2 is Canon's RAW format from roughly 2004 to 2018: the EOS DSLRs from the 5D and 7D series to the Rebel (xxxD) and xxD bodies, and the PowerShots of the same years. It is a TIFF-based file holding the sensor's 12- or 14-bit values, losslessly compressed, plus the camera's own JPEG.

      Cameras that record CR2 include the EOS 5D Mark II, III and IV, 6D and 6D Mark II, 7D and 7D Mark II, 80D, 77D, Rebel T6i/T7i (750D/800D), 1D X.

      The JPEG inside a CR2

      A CR2 file also carries the JPEG the camera made: full size: 5760 × 3840 on an EOS 5D Mark III and 5472 × 3648 on an EOS 6D. Canon also stores a 464 × 309 uncompressed thumbnail; the converter skips it and uses the real JPEG.

      Converting CR2 to JPG here

      1. Drop one or many CR2 files on the converter, or choose them.
      2. Keep “Develop the RAW” for the full sensor, or choose “Use the camera's JPEG” for its exact look.
      3. Choose JPG (and its quality) or a 16-bit TIFF, the size, and the brightness if the camera's was not what you wanted.
      4. Press Convert. Each file can be downloaded as soon as it is ready, or all of them as one ZIP.

      What it does not do

      • No lens corrections: distortion and vignetting that the camera removes from its own JPEG stay in the developed picture (most visible on Micro Four Thirds).
      • No sharpening and no noise reduction: the developed picture is what the sensor recorded, which at 100 % looks softer and grainier than a camera JPEG.
      • No picture styles or film simulations: the developed colour is neutral. The camera's own JPEG keeps them.
      • Apple ProRAW and other already-demosaiced (linear) DNGs are refused by name, not guessed at.
      • Memory: a 24-megapixel file needs about 0.5 GB while it is developed, a 60-megapixel one about 1.3 GB. Files are converted one at a time so a batch does not add up.

      Other formats: CR3 to JPG · NEF to JPG · ARW to JPG · RAF to JPG · ORF to JPG · RW2 to JPG · PEF to JPG · DNG to JPG · every RAW

      CR2 to JPG: questions

      How do I convert CR2 to JPG?

      Drop the CR2 files on the converter above, choose JPG and press Convert. Each file is developed in your browser and offered for download; with several files, “Download all as ZIP” collects them. Nothing is uploaded.

      Is the CR2 converter free, and are there limits?

      It is free, with no account and no watermark. The only limit is your computer's memory: a 24-megapixel file needs about half a gigabyte while it is being developed.

      Will the JPG look like the one my Canon camera makes?

      Its brightness is matched to the camera's own JPEG and its white balance is the one you shot with, but picture styles, sharpening and lens corrections are not in the RAW data, so the developed picture is neutral. The JPEG the camera embedded is full size: 5760 × 3840 on an EOS 5D Mark III and 5472 × 3648 on an EOS 6D; choose “Use the camera's JPEG” to keep its exact look.

      Can I open CR2 files without converting them?

      On Windows 10 and 11, the Photos app opens most RAW files once Microsoft's free Raw Image Extension is installed from the Microsoft Store. On a Mac, Preview and Photos open RAW from the cameras Apple supports, and newer bodies need a recent macOS. Converting to JPG is what makes the picture open everywhere else: phones, websites, print shops.