Convert Adobe DNG (Digital Negative) raw photos to standard JPG with full control over white balance, exposure, and quality. Perfect for sharing smartphone, drone, and DSLR raw shots. Working with other raw formats like CR2, NEF, ARW, or ORF? Use our universal RAW to Image converter instead. After conversion, try Compress JPG or Image Resizer to optimize for web.
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DNG (Digital Negative) is Adobe's open raw photo format. It stores the unprocessed sensor data straight from your camera, smartphone, or drone, giving you maximum flexibility in post-processing. Google Pixel, Samsung Galaxy, iPhone (ProRAW), DJI drones, and most modern DSLRs and mirrorless cameras can produce DNG files - either natively or through Adobe Lightroom export.
The downside: DNG files are large (20-80 MB is typical), most apps cannot open them, and they cannot be shared on social media or via email without conversion. Converting to JPG produces a universally compatible file that is 5-20 times smaller, while still looking great when the settings are tuned. After conversion, you can further compress your JPGs or resize them for web use.
As shot, auto, or six preset Kelvin values for accurate color.
Pull back highlights or lift shadows up to 2 stops either way.
sRGB for web, Adobe RGB for print, ProPhoto RGB for archival.
Process up to 10 DNG files at once and download as ZIP.
Camera, lens, date and GPS data carried over to the JPG.
Files auto-delete after 4 hours, no account required.
Google Pixel (since Pixel 3), Samsung Galaxy in Expert RAW mode, iPhone via Apple ProRAW.
DJI Mavic, Mini, Air, and Phantom series all save raw DNGs alongside their JPG output.
Leica, Pentax, Ricoh, Sigma, and Hasselblad use DNG natively. For Canon CR2/CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Fujifilm RAF and other proprietary raw formats, use our RAW to Image converter directly - no need to convert through DNG first.
Adobe Lightroom, Capture One, Affinity Photo, and many mobile editors export DNG for archival or further editing.
If you want to keep your edits flexible, archive the DNGs and only convert when you need to share. For maximum quality after conversion, choose 95+ JPG quality and avoid resizing down.
For sharing or printing, use 90-95 - the difference from 100 is invisible but the file is 30-50% smaller. For web galleries or social media, 80-85 is a great balance. Below 70 you will start seeing JPG artifacts (blockiness) in flat areas like skies. If you need smaller files afterwards, try the Compress JPG tool with our perceptual quality settings.
"As shot" uses the white balance your camera recorded at capture time, which is usually correct. Choose Auto if your camera was in mixed lighting and got it wrong. Pick a specific preset (Daylight, Cloudy, Tungsten) if you know the exact lighting and want a clean, neutral result.
If your DNG looks too dark or too bright, dial it in here. Positive values lift the entire image (recover shadow detail), negative values pull it down (recover blown highlights). Raw files typically have 2-3 stops of recovery headroom, so even -2 EV will not crush the highlights into pure white. Best practice: keep it at 0 for most shots and adjust per-image only when needed.
sRGB is the right answer 95% of the time - it is the standard for the web, social media, and most monitors. Adobe RGB has a wider color gamut and is useful only if you are printing professionally with a color-managed workflow. ProPhoto RGB is even wider and is mostly for archival or further editing in pro software.
Yes, by default. Camera make and model, lens info, shutter speed, aperture, ISO, capture date, and GPS coordinates (if available) are copied to the JPG. If you want to strip metadata for privacy or smaller file size, uncheck "Preserve EXIF data" before converting.
80 MB per DNG file, 10 files per batch. This covers nearly all smartphone, drone, and DSLR raw files. Medium-format DNGs from cameras like Phase One or Hasselblad H6D can exceed this - if you hit the limit, please contact us.
This tool is specifically tuned for the DNG format. For other camera raw formats including Canon CR2 and CR3, Nikon NEF, Sony ARW, Fujifilm RAF, Olympus ORF, Panasonic RW2, and Pentax PEF, use our universal RAW to Image converter. It supports 30+ raw formats from every major camera manufacturer and offers the same white balance, exposure, and quality controls. You will not need to convert your files to DNG first.
Yes, completely free. No signup, no watermark, no hidden limits. Browse the rest of our Image Converters for more.