Convert RAW to JPG online

How to convert RAW to JPG

Nothing to install, nothing to sign up for:

• Drop your RAW files anywhere on this page — one file, several, or the whole zip — or click to browse, or paste a URL.
• Press the camera button in the toolbar (or ⌘K → *Convert RAW photos to JPG*): every RAW in the current folder converts — up to 50 per run — and downloads as one `<archive>-jpg.zip` with the folder structure kept.
• Each photo is a full develop, so expect a second or three per file; the progress bar counts files honestly and you can cancel between them.
• Want to *look* first? Click any RAW and it develops in the viewer at full resolution with zoom, metadata, and ← / → through the folder; the status bar’s Download .png exports that one file exactly as developed.

A real develop, not the embedded preview

RAW files carry a small JPEG the camera bakes in for thumbnailing, and “instant” converters usually just unwrap it — which is why their output never looks better than the camera’s own JPEG. Here the sensor data itself is processed: the Bayer pattern is demosaiced (AHD interpolation), the camera’s as-shot white balance is applied, and the result is converted to sRGB — the same pipeline a desktop RAW converter runs. The JPEG you download is rendered from that develop (quality 92), which is why each file takes a moment and why fine detail survives zooming.

One honest consequence of a real develop: a RAW has no single “correct” JPEG. Your camera’s own JPEGs apply the manufacturer’s rendering — Canon Picture Styles, Nikon Picture Controls, Fujifilm film simulations — while this converter applies the as-shot white balance and a neutral sRGB conversion. Two valid interpretations of the same capture; expect the tones to differ slightly from the camera’s back-of-screen look, the way two desktop converters differ from each other.

What you trade when you go RAW → JPG

The trade is headroom. A RAW keeps 12 or 14 bits per photosite and the exact white-balance and exposure the camera recorded; a JPEG is 8-bit and already rendered — convenient everywhere, recoverable nowhere. For sharing, printing, and handing files to people without a RAW editor, JPEG is the right destination; keep the RAWs as the negative.

Sizes run the expected direction: RAWs compress photosite data losslessly (or near it), so the JPEGs are usually smaller than their sources — a 25 MB full-frame RAW typically lands between 3 and 10 MB as a quality-92 JPEG, depending on the megapixel count and the scene.

Metadata does not survive the export. The JPEGs are re-encodes of the developed pixels, so EXIF — shooting date, camera, lens, and GPS location — does not travel with them. For photos you are posting or sending onward, that is a privacy plus; if you need the metadata, it stays readable in the viewer’s Info panel while you still have the RAW.

Which RAW files convert here

The whole camera-RAW family this site develops: Canon CR2 and CR3, Nikon NEF and NRW, Sony ARW, Adobe DNG, Fujifilm RAF (X-Trans included), Olympus/OM System ORF, Panasonic RW2, Pentax PEF — plus the vendor tail (RWL, SRW, IIQ, 3FR and more). Two honest exclusions: plain .tif/.tiff are TIFFs, not camera RAW, and Sigma .x3f needs a decoder this engine build does not include — both are refused rather than rendered wrong.

Converting is only half the story — if what you actually want is to *inspect* RAW photos (zoom to 100%, cull a folder, check what is inside a delivery zip), the online RAW viewer is the same engine framed for looking; each format’s reference page lives under /open/…. Shooting an iPhone? That is HEIC, not RAW — different page, same no-upload principle.

Honest limits

Real capability, real boundaries — stated up front.

• A develop takes time — roughly one to three seconds per photo, longer for 50-megapixel medium format; the progress bar counts files and cancel stops between them (a develop already running finishes and is dropped).
• One-time engine download (~1.1 MB) from this site’s own domain, cached by your browser; afterwards converting works offline.
• Folder batches convert the first 50 RAWs of the current folder per run — rerun per subfolder for more, or in another folder.
• Per-file export is PNG — the viewer’s Download .png is the byte-exact developed render; the JPEG path is the batch (quality 92, metadata stripped).
• Size caps keep the tab alive: 128 MB per file, 512 MB of developed pixels — far above any camera file, but stated rather than discovered.
• No editing — this is convert-and-inspect; white balance, exposure, and tone stay as the develop renders them.

Credits

The develop engine is LibRaw (LGPL-2.1), distributed via rawconvert-wasm (MIT) as WebAssembly and served from this site’s own domain as standalone, replaceable files. This page adds the viewer, the batch converter, and the archive integration; LibRaw does the developing.

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