Convert camera RAW files to JPEG
Drag the RAW files into Images by Edmund, choose JPEG and press Export. It reads the RAW formats macOS itself supports, which covers the major camera makers, and converts a whole shoot in one pass. This is a straight conversion for sharing or proofing rather than a substitute for developing the files properly.
macOS 15 or later. Apple silicon Mac. Version 1.1.0, out 11 October 2026. What’s new.
Free, with nothing to unlock and no account.
A RAW file is twenty to eighty megabytes of sensor readings rather than a picture, and turning it into one takes a real decoder and a good deal of memory. That is what a Mac app has and what a browser tab does not.
Some of the other jobs do run here in the browser: SVG to PNG, Lossless compression, PNG to WebP, JPEG to WebP, WebP to PNG, PDF to PNG, PNG to ICO, PNG or SVG to ICNS and Bulk resizing.
RAW to JPEG, step by step
- Drag the RAW files inA card's worth is fine. These are large files, so give it a moment to read them; nothing is uploaded, so the only limit is your machine.
- Choose JPEG, and a size if you want oneFull size for archiving or proofing, or a longest edge if they are going to a client or a contact sheet. Quality is under Options.
- Press ExportThe JPEGs land beside the RAW files by default, so the originals stay exactly where they are and nothing is overwritten.
A RAW file is not a picture yet, and the colour profile is what keeps it honest
A RAW file is closer to a sensor reading than to an image: brightness values behind a colour filter grid, with no single correct interpretation. Turning it into a JPEG means demosaicing it, applying a colour rendering and choosing a tone curve, and the app uses the RAW support built into macOS to do that, which is the same code Preview and Photos use. What it does not do is discard the colour profile on the way out. An image without one is an image whose colours are a guess, and the guess is usually wrong on any screen wider than sRGB. So the profile travels with the file, and stripping the private metadata, which you may well want to do before sending a shoot on, is a separate switch that leaves the colour information alone.
Why not just use a converter website?
RAW files are twenty to eighty megabytes each. A shoot is gigabytes. Uploading that to a free service, waiting, and downloading it back is slower than the conversion by a wide margin, assuming the site accepts the format at all, which most do not.
They are also, usually, the unpublished originals of somebody’s work. Photographers tend to have firm views about where those live, and a converter site’s terms of service are rarely the place they would choose.
Questions
Which RAW formats are supported?
The ones macOS itself can read, which covers Canon, Nikon, Sony, Fujifilm, Olympus, Panasonic and Adobe's DNG among others. If Preview can open the file, so can this. Support arrives with macOS updates rather than with app updates.
Is this a replacement for Lightroom?
No, and it is not trying to be. There is no exposure, white balance or curve adjustment here. This converts, resizes and optimises. If you want to develop the file, develop it first and convert afterwards.
Will it use the camera's own settings?
It uses the interpretation macOS applies, which reads the camera's embedded settings where it can. Expect the result to look like the file does in Preview rather than like the back of the camera or like your editor of choice.
Can I strip the camera and location data?
Yes. Turn off Keep EXIF and GPS under Options and the camera model, lens, timestamps and any location come out. The colour profile is kept regardless, because removing it would change how the picture looks.
Other things it does
There is a full list on the Images by Edmund product page, along with what else the app does.
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Free, and it does the other eight jobs too. Two ways to get it when it lands: the Mac App Store, or straight from here.
macOS 15 or later. Apple silicon Mac. Version 1.1.0, out 11 October 2026. What’s new.