Converting cr2 files to jpeg

CR2 Image File extension. This does not contain a ready to view picture like a JPG or PNG file, it is used to store information directly coming from the sensor. You can choose to store your pictures in RAW format which gives you the benefit of being able to do a lot of post processing on the file, if you tried to do this with JPEG, this would be difficult and would likely result in a quality loss. Actions CR2 Converter View other image file formats Technical Details RAW files are the best quality to size ratio that a photograph can be stored in, primarily because each colour is recorded in either 12 or 14 bits and a lossless compression is used.

JPG Image File extension. The resultant 'lossy' file means that quality can never be recovered. The JPG format is often used in digital camera memory cards. Actions JPG Converter View other image file formats Technical Details JPG is a graphical file format for editing still images, it offers a symmetrical compression technique which is processor intensive and time consiming in both compression and decompression.

Compression rates of can be achieved, although the loss is noticeable at that level. This thread is locked. You can follow the question or vote as helpful, but you cannot reply to this thread. I have the same question Report abuse. Details required :. Cancel Submit. Hi Maisie, To be able to open the. CR2 file in Photo Gallery. To do this, please follow these steps: 1.

Launch Photo Gallery. You can use the options to control image resolution, quality and file size. CR2 file contain uncompressed and untouched raw image data from Canon cameras. These raw files are also sometimes called digital negatives. The purpose of raw files is to get maximum information from the sensor of the camera to give possibilites to adjust the image later e. With the compression technique it can reduce the image size without losing the image quality.

So it is widely used in web publishing to reduce the image size maintaining the image quality.