DNG Converter

Convert Digital Negative files (DNG) online for free


Drop or upload your .DNG file

How to convert your DNG file

  1. Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your DNG file.
  2. You'll see a preview.
  3. Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.

Convert DNG to another file type

The converter easily converts your DNG digital negatives to various formats - free and online. No Adobe Lightroom or or other Camera Raw software needed.

  • DNG to JPG
  • DNG to PNG
  • DNG to JPEG
  • DNG to PDF
  • DNG to RAW
  • DNG to TIFF
  • DNG to KERNEL
  • DNG to PI2
  • DNG to UBRL
  • DNG to MIFF
  • DNG to MSL
  • DNG to FARBFELD

Convert a file to DNG

To convert other file formats to the "Digital Negative Raw Image" file type, you need software like Adobe Lightroom or a similar tool.


About DNG files

A .DNG (Digital Negative) is a raw image format created by Adobe Systems based on the TIFF standard. It stores uncompressed, unprocessed sensor data directly from digital cameras. Apple also utilizes the .DNG container for its ProRAW format on iPhones, embedding computational photography data alongside the raw image.

To natively open, edit, and "develop" a .DNG file, professional photo editors like Adobe Lightroom or Adobe Photoshop are typically required.

The main disadvantage of a .DNG file is its massive file size, which frequently exceeds 25MB to 100MB per image. Because it is a raw format, you cannot easily upload a .DNG to social media, embed it in a web browser, or send it via standard email attachments. While it retains maximum dynamic range for extreme color correction, it is an entirely impractical format for daily viewing, quick sharing, or web publishing.

To share your photos online, convert .DNG to JPG or WEBP. If you need a smaller but lossless format for continued editing, convert to PNG. For archiving or high-quality commercial printing, use TIFF. Drag and drop your file here to analyze and convert it - free, online, and without installing heavy software.

Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your DNG file.

Users also converted DMG, LUT, CUBE, XMP, DNF, DNC, DND, DPG, DMGPART, DNS, DNP, LRTEMPLATE and INSP files.


FAQ

If you want to convert DNG file to XMP, CUBE or DWG, you can use Adobe Lightroom or similar software from the "Raw Photography Image Storage" category. In the File menu, look for Save As… or Export….

To convert files to DNG, try Adobe Lightroom or another comparable tool in the "Raw Photography Image Storage" category.



The DNG Converter Story

The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our DNG converter.