toolkit Canon CR2 files decode to JPG on this page without leaving your computer: add as many as you like above and a batch comes back as a single .zip. Nothing is uploaded. A card's worth of CR2 is several gigabytes, so keeping the work local saves the upload entirely — and client photographs never sit on someone else's server.
What CR2 is
CR2 is the raw format Canon introduced in 2004 and used for well over a decade of EOS DSLRs — the Rebel, 5D and 7D lines among them — as well as early EOS M mirrorless bodies and some PowerShot compacts, before CR3 began replacing it in 2018. It is built on TIFF and holds the sensor's unprocessed readout. If your camera or SD card produces files ending in .CR2, this is the page for them.
A card's worth of CR2 in one drop
Select every CR2 from a shoot and they are all converted in turn. The results are collected into one .zip, and each keeps its original name with a .jpg extension, so a folder of IMG_4821.CR2 comes back as IMG_4821.jpg and stays sorted the way your camera numbered it. Nothing is renamed, reordered or watermarked, and the batch costs nothing — the conversion is your own machine's work.
Why convert CR2 to JPG
Canon's own software and the major photo editors read CR2; almost nothing else does. A client, a relative or a web form wants a file that opens on a double-click, and at tens of megabytes a frame a CR2 is awkward to send in any case. A JPG solves both problems, and the CR2 stays on your disk as the original.
Vertical shots are rotated for you
A Canon body never rotates the image data: a vertical frame is stored in landscape layout with a tag noting how the camera was held. That tag is read from the CR2 and applied before encoding, so the JPG is upright rather than lying on its side.
Choosing a JPG quality for CR2
Quality is set once for the batch: 100%, 92% (the default), 80% or 60%. For proofs and client galleries 92% is the usual choice; 80% makes a much lighter file for email or social uploads, and the loss is hard to see at screen size.
Frequently asked questions
Are my CR2 files uploaded?
No. The CR2 is decoded and the JPG encoded in your browser via WebAssembly, so client work stays on your own machine.
Can I convert all my CR2 files at once?
Yes, however many there are. They come back as one .zip in which each photo keeps its original file name, so the numbering from your camera survives the conversion. There is no batch limit and no fee.
Does this work for both Canon DSLR and mirrorless CR2 files?
Yes — any file with a .CR2 extension is handled the same way regardless of which Canon body produced it.
What about Canon's newer CR3 files?
CR3 is a different container format from CR2 — use the dedicated CR3 to JPG page for those.
How can I open a CR2 file without Photoshop or Lightroom?
Converting it is the simplest route: once it is a JPG, any viewer opens it. To work on the raw data itself, Canon's free Digital Photo Professional reads CR2.
Can I convert JPG to CR2?
No. A CR2 holds the sensor's raw readout, which a JPG no longer contains, and nothing here writes Canon raw files. The conversion is CR2 to JPG only.