How to batch convert RAW to JPG

On your computer, Adobe Lightroom Classic, Photoshop's Image Processor, darktable and the camera makers' own apps all convert a whole batch of RAW files to JPG at once.

If the JPGs are for a client, you don't need to convert anything first. Upload the RAW files to a shoots.page gallery: it renders a full-size JPEG of every photo in the background, and your client downloads the whole shoot as one ZIP.

Lightroom Classic comes with a paid Adobe plan, with a free trial. In Adobe's words, "In Lightroom Classic, you don't save photos in the traditional sense. Instead, you export photos." To export a batch:

1. Select the photos you want to convert in Grid view.
2. Choose File > Export. The top of the Export dialog shows how many photos will be exported.
3. Set Export To to Hard Drive.
4. In File Settings, choose JPEG and a color space.
5. Set the size under Image Sizing.
6. Click Export.

For delivery settings, see Lightroom export for delivery.

Photoshop also comes with a paid Adobe plan. Its Image Processor converts a folder of files in one run:

1. Choose File > Scripts > Image Processor.
2. Pick the images: the open files, or a folder, optionally including all subfolders.
3. Choose where to save the processed files.
4. Tick Save as JPEG and set Quality, from 0 to 12.
5. If you like, tick Resize to Fit or Convert Profile to sRGB.
6. Click Run.

The JPEGs land in a folder called JPEG in the destination. Adobe notes that Camera Raw files keep their current settings unless you make changes.

You don't need a subscription to convert a batch. The RAW to JPG guide covers each format; for batches:

• darktable: free and open source, for Windows, Linux and macOS 13.5 or later (no Intel Mac builds). Select the images, choose a file format in the export module and press export to start a background job for all of them.
• RawTherapee: free and cross-platform. It has a Queue with its own output location template; version 5.13 added a %e specifier that expands to the output file's extension.
• Nikon NX Studio: a free download for NEF and NRW. After the Nikon ID sign-in, you can select entire folders, click Export, choose JPEG and set the quality and sRGB conversion. See NEF to JPG.
• Canon Digital Photo Professional 4: free, for Windows 11 and macOS 26, 15 and 14. Batch processing of RAW images is one of its listed features; for one file, use File > Convert and save with Save as type set to Exif-JPEG. See CR2 to JPG and CR3 to JPG.
• Sony Imaging Edge Desktop: free. It develops ARW files to JPEG or TIFF and can develop multiple images at once.
• FUJIFILM X RAW STUDIO: converts RAF files with the processor of a camera connected by USB. Fujifilm says "there is no difficulty in batch processing large number of images", and the results match the camera's tone, color reproduction and Film Simulations.
• Photos on a Mac: select the RAW photos, choose File > Export > Export [number] Photos, set Photo Kind to JPEG, pick JPEG Quality and Size, and click Export.

shoots.page is a photo-delivery gallery, not an installed converter. For a client delivery, or to get the JPEGs yourself:

1. Pick your RAW files on the shoots.page homepage and sign in with Google. Uploads run in resumable 8 MiB parts.
2. Wait for the previews, then publish the gallery.
3. Open the published link (https://shoots.page/g/...), not your dashboard: there, your own download is the RAW itself.
4. Click Download all photos to get one ZIP.

With the Originals switch on, as it is by default, each RAW is in the ZIP as a full-size JPEG with a number prefix: IMG_0001.CR2 becomes 0001_IMG_0001.jpg. ZIP downloads covers the rest.

The full-size JPEGs are made in the background. If you download before a file's JPEG is ready, you get its 2000 px preview under the same .jpg name. Measured on one processor core, a full-size render took from 1.8 seconds for a Canon EOS R6 CR3 to 5.8 seconds for a 61 MP Sony ARW.

The Free plan's 2 GB holds about 80 RAWs at 25 MB each. Pro gives you 100 GB, about 4,000 RAWs, for USD 9 a month or USD 90 a year before tax, or EUR 8 a month or EUR 80 a year in Europe with VAT included. The JPEGs shoots.page makes don't count toward storage; the gallery size calculator estimates what a shoot needs.

• No edits or presets: shoots.page ignores editor catalogs, refuses .xmp sidecars and applies no Film Simulation, picture style or lens correction. If you edited, export JPEGs from your editor and upload those.
• Fixed output: full size, quality 92, sRGB. No quality or size controls.
• Camera rendering: LibRaw 0.22.1 uses the camera's recorded white balance and a standard demosaic. If a RAW holds a camera JPEG of at least 90% of full size, shoots.page may use it instead.
• Trimmed EXIF: the JPEG keeps camera make, model and capture date and time. Lens, GPS and exposure data are removed.
• Files that fail: anything over 1 GiB or 100 megapixels, which includes Fujifilm GFX100-series RAFs. Nikon High Efficiency NEFs, as shot by the Z 8, can't be decoded yet. Remove those before publishing.

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