RAW to JPEG converter: free, in your browser, no upload

Published September 15, 2026 · Daniel Tello · RevelRaw

Drop a RAW file below and download the JPEG inside it — usually within a second, even for a 60 MB file. It works with Sony .ARW, Canon .CR3 and .CR2, Nikon .NEF, Fujifilm .RAF, Olympus .ORF, Panasonic .RW2 and .DNG including iPhone ProRAW. There is no upload, no account and no file-size limit, because nothing goes to a server: JavaScript on your own machine pulls out the JPEG your camera already saved inside the RAW and hands it to you. The tool tells you the exact resolution of every extraction, honestly, including when a format only carries a reduced preview.

Why it's instant: the JPEG is already in your RAW

Every camera RAW carries a JPEG the camera rendered at the moment you pressed the shutter — it's what the back-of-camera screen shows and what makes thumbnails appear instantly. Online converters ignore it: they make you upload the whole 25–100 MB RAW to a server, decode it there, and hand back a re-render, with file-size caps and daily limits along the way. This tool does something simpler and more honest: it finds the camera's own JPEG inside the file and gives it to you byte for byte. No decoding, no upload, no waiting — you can load this page, switch off Wi-Fi, and it keeps working. It's the same principle behind RevelRaw itself, a native macOS RAW editor where everything happens on your Mac.

The trade-off, stated plainly: what you download is the camera's rendering, at whatever size the camera embedded. For most formats that's the full-resolution image. For a few it's a reduced preview — the table below shows what we found, and the tool reports the exact resolution of every file you drop.

What you get, format by format

We tested this tool on real files from the public raw.pixls.us archive on September 15, 2026. What came out:

What the camera embeds varies by body and settings, so treat this table as what we measured, not a guarantee — the honest number for your file appears next to its download button. One of our test DNGs (an iPhone 8 native RAW) carried no preview at all; when that happens, the tool says so instead of guessing. Every format here links to a full guide: ARW · CR3 · CR2 · NEF · RAF · ORF · RW2 · ProRAW.

When the embedded JPEG isn't enough

The extracted JPEG is the camera's interpretation: its white balance, its contrast, its noise handling, frozen at capture. That's exactly right for getting a shareable file out of a RAW quickly. It's exactly wrong for the shots that deserve better — the underexposed keeper, the sky that needs two stops of highlights back, the white balance the camera missed. Those need a real conversion: open the RAW in an editor, make it look the way you want, and export the JPEG last. On a Mac, our RAW to JPEG guide walks through every route, and RevelRaw makes the editing part fast: drop the same file in, AI scene detection ranks 40+ curated presets against the shot, fine-tune, export. Also worth knowing: if a format gives you only a reduced preview here (Olympus ORF, Panasonic RW2), a RAW editor is how you get a full-resolution JPEG from it.

Metadata and GPS: check before you share

Whether the extracted JPEG carries metadata depends on the format, so the tool flags it on every card. In our tests, extractions from Fujifilm RAF, Panasonic RW2 and iPhone ProRAW files carried their own full EXIF block — including GPS coordinates if location was on — while extractions from Sony, Canon, Nikon and Olympus files carried none. A JPEG with no EXIF is safe to share but useless for archiving settings; a JPEG with EXIF deserves a look before it goes anywhere public. Our free EXIF viewer reads either one the same way this page works: locally, no upload.

FAQ

How do I convert a RAW photo to JPEG without uploading it?

Drop your RAW file on this page — ARW, CR3, CR2, NEF, RAF, ORF, RW2 or DNG. JavaScript running on your own machine finds the JPEG your camera embedded inside the RAW and hands it to you as a download, usually within a second. Nothing goes over the network; once the page has loaded it works offline.

Is the converted JPEG full resolution?

Usually, but it depends on the camera. In our tests, Sony ARW, Canon CR3 and CR2, Nikon NEF, Fujifilm RAF and iPhone ProRAW DNG files all carried a full-resolution JPEG inside. Olympus ORF and Panasonic RW2 files carried a reduced preview (3200 × 2400 and 1920 × 1280 in our samples). The tool reports the exact resolution of every extraction next to the download button, so you always know what you got.

Does converting RAW to JPEG lose quality?

A JPEG is a finished 8-bit rendering, so it holds one interpretation of the shot and far less editing latitude than the RAW. For sharing, that's fine — the extracted JPEG is exactly what the camera would have saved alongside the RAW. For a photo you want to improve first, the better order is to edit the RAW in a RAW editor and export the JPEG last — what RAW photo editing is covers why.

Do all RAW files have a JPEG inside?

Almost all — cameras embed a JPEG so the back-of-camera screen and thumbnails work without decoding the sensor data. But not every DNG does: one of our iPhone test files (an iPhone 8 native RAW) carried no preview at all, and some phone or converter-produced DNGs only carry a small thumbnail. When there's no usable JPEG inside, the tool says so instead of guessing.

Does the extracted JPEG keep EXIF and GPS data?

It varies by format, and the tool flags it per file. In our tests, JPEGs extracted from Fujifilm RAF, Panasonic RW2 and iPhone ProRAW files carried their own full EXIF block — including GPS if the camera wrote it — while extractions from Sony ARW, Canon CR3 and CR2, Nikon NEF and Olympus ORF files carried no metadata at all. Check before you share; our free EXIF viewer reads either file without uploading it.

Which RAW formats does this converter support?

Sony .ARW and .SR2, Canon .CR3 and .CR2, Nikon .NEF and .NRW, Fujifilm .RAF, Olympus and OM System .ORF, Panasonic .RW2, and .DNG — including iPhone ProRAW and drone DNGs. Canon's pre-2004 CRW is detected but carries no extractable JPEG. Files that are already JPEG, PNG or HEIC are turned away honestly: there is nothing to extract from them.

Related reading: Free RAW EXIF viewer · Convert RAW to JPEG on a Mac · All RAW formats RevelRaw opens · How to edit iPhone ProRAW photos on a Mac