Turn Canon CR2 and CR3 RAW files into full-size JPGs you can share, email and upload, without installing Lightroom or uploading your photos.
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Processed inside your browser.
Clean, full-quality output.
No upload queue or waiting.
Works on phone and desktop.
Canon cameras save RAW photos as CR2 (and, on models from 2018 onwards, CR3). These files hold everything the sensor captured, which is great for editing but awkward for everything else: phones, social apps, web forms, email previews and most photo viewers simply can't open them. To share a shoot, send proofs to a client or upload a photo to a website, you need a JPG.
This converter turns CR2 and CR3 files into full-size JPGs directly in your browser. It uses the finished image your Canon camera stores inside every RAW file, so the result looks exactly like the photo on your camera screen. There is nothing to install, no account, and your photos never leave your device.
Before
CR2, Canon EOS 5D Mark IV
≈ 30–60 MB
Can't be opened by most phones, web forms, social apps or email previews.
After
JPG, 6720 × 4480
≈ 3–8 MB
Full camera resolution, with the colours and Picture Style you shot with.
Measured on a sample 5D Mark IV CR2 file. Exact sizes depend on the scene and the quality you choose; the JPG is made from the full-size preview Canon stores inside every CR2.
Drop .CR2 (or newer .CR3) files into the workspace above, or click to choose them. You can add several at once, up to 100 MB each.
Use the quality slider. 90–100% is right for prints and archives; 80% gives smaller files for sharing.
Click Convert to JPG. Each file is read on your device and saved as a JPG at the resolution stored in the file.
Save JPGs one by one or download the whole batch as a single ZIP file.
| Use | Quality | Typical JPG size | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| Archive, printing | 100% | 6–10 MB | Closest to the camera JPEG |
| Sharing with clients | 90% | 3–5 MB | No visible difference on screen |
| Email, messaging | 80% | 2–3 MB | Resize afterwards for smaller files |
| Web upload forms | 70–80% | 1.5–3 MB | Compress further if there is a KB limit |
| Quick previews | 60% | 1–2 MB | Fine for culling, not for printing |
CR2 (Canon Raw version 2) was the RAW format of Canon EOS cameras for well over a decade, from early digital SLRs to models such as the EOS 5D Mark IV, 90D, 6D Mark II and the Rebel / Kiss series. It is based on the TIFF structure and contains the raw sensor readings, losslessly compressed, along with camera metadata and several ready-made JPEG previews.
In 2018 Canon introduced CR3 with the EOS M50 and the EOS R mirrorless system. CR3 uses a different container (based on the ISO media format used for video files) and adds an optional compact C-RAW mode, but it still stores a full-size preview image. This tool reads both.
A RAW file is not yet a picture: the sensor data has to be "developed" (demosaiced, white-balanced, tone-mapped and sharpened) before it can be shown. Your Canon camera does this development every time you press the shutter, and saves the result inside the CR2 as a full-size JPEG. That is the image you see on the camera's rear screen.
This converter locates that full-size image inside the CR2 or CR3, checks it is complete, rotates it upright using the orientation recorded by the camera, and saves it as a JPG at the quality you pick. Because Canon rendered it, it includes your Picture Style, white balance, Auto Lighting Optimizer and any in-camera lens corrections you had switched on.
The advantage of shooting RAW is the room it gives you to fix things later: lifting dark shadows, recovering bright skies, changing white balance after the fact, or reducing noise from high ISO shots. Those adjustments work on the raw sensor data, which needs a full raw developer. Canon's own Digital Photo Professional is free for Canon owners; darktable and RawTherapee are free and open source; Lightroom and Capture One are paid options.
Use this converter when the camera already got the shot right and you simply need JPGs: to share a set of photos with family, send quick proofs, upload images to a website or marketplace, or check a batch on a computer without editing software.
The quality slider controls JPEG compression. At 100% the JPG is as close as possible to the camera's own rendering, and a 30 MP photo is typically 6–10 MB. At 90% the file is roughly half that size with no difference you can see on a screen, which makes it a good default for sharing. Lower settings are fine for quick previews.
Resolution has a bigger effect on size than quality. If the photos are going to a website, social network or email, resize them afterwards with the Image Resizer: a 2048-pixel-wide version of a 30 MP photo is around a tenth of the file size. For forms with a strict KB limit, use the Image Compressor.
RAW files are big, and photos are personal. Uploading a 50 MB CR2 to a conversion website takes time and hands your images to a third party. Here, everything happens in your browser: the file is read from your disk, converted on your device, and the JPG goes straight to your downloads folder. No photo is uploaded, stored or seen by anyone.
Because nothing is uploaded, conversion time depends only on your computer. A typical CR2 converts in a second or two on a laptop, and you can convert a whole card's worth of photos and download them as one ZIP.
The JPG is written from the image pixels, so the EXIF information from the CR2 (camera body, lens, aperture, shutter speed, ISO, capture time and GPS location) is not copied. That is useful when you share photos publicly, because the location and camera serial number are removed. If you organise your library by date, keep the original CR2 files, which still hold all of that data.
Turn a card full of CR2 files into JPGs that open on any phone or computer, without editing software.
Send proofs in the camera's look while you edit the selected images properly in your raw developer.
Upload forms reject CR2. Convert, then resize or compress the JPG to the required size.
See photos on a work or borrowed computer where no Canon software or codecs are installed.
Every Canon CR2 and CR3 file contains a full-size JPEG that the camera rendered when you took the photo, next to the raw sensor data. The converter finds that image, turns it the right way up using the orientation stored in the file, and saves it as a JPG at the quality you choose. It does not re-develop the raw sensor data.
For Canon cameras, yes. A CR2 from a 30 MP EOS 5D Mark IV gave a 6720 × 4480 JPG in our tests, and CR3 files from recent EOS R and M models also carry full-size previews. If a file ever contains only a small preview, the tool tells you the size.
Yes. CR3 is the format Canon introduced in 2018 with the EOS M50 and EOS R. Drop CR3 files exactly like CR2 files; they are converted the same way.
Yes. The preview is rendered by the camera, so it includes the white balance, Picture Style (Standard, Portrait, Landscape and so on) and in-camera corrections you shot with. It will look like the image on the camera screen, not like an unedited raw file in Lightroom.
No. Exposure recovery, white balance changes and noise reduction need a raw developer such as Canon Digital Photo Professional (free from Canon), Lightroom, darktable or RawTherapee. This tool is for quickly turning CR2 files into usable JPGs as shot.
No. The files are read and converted in your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, which also makes large batches faster because there is no upload or download wait.
A CR2 stores 14-bit sensor data for every pixel plus several previews. A JPG stores one finished 8-bit image with lossy compression. A 50 MB CR2 typically becomes a 3–8 MB JPG at high quality, with no visible difference on screen.
No. The JPG is re-encoded from the image pixels, so EXIF data such as the camera model, lens, shutter speed and GPS location is not copied. Keep your CR2 originals; the EXIF viewer can show what they contain.
Yes, in any modern mobile browser. CR2 files are large, so on a phone it is best to convert a few at a time; a desktop browser handles big batches more comfortably.