How to convert your HDR file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your HDR file.
- You'll see a preview.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert HDR to another file type
The converter easily converts your HDR file to various formats - free and online. No ArcGIS or extra software needed.
- HDR to SDR
- HDR to MP4
- HDR to JPG
- HDR to PNG
- HDR to SHP
- HDR to KML
- HDR to KMZ
- HDR to GPX
- HDR to GEOJSON
- HDR to TOPOJSON
- HDR to TIF
- HDR to TIFF
Convert a file to HDR
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Raster Image formats to HDR with high quality output.
- LAZ to HDR
- KMZ to HDR
- DTM to HDR
- CSV to HDR
- DEM to HDR
- PRJ to HDR
- LAS to HDR
- GPX to HDR
- DSM to HDR
- SHP to HDR
- DBF to HDR
- KML to HDR
About HDR files
The .hdr extension most commonly identifies a Radiance RGBE image file, a specialized 32-bit raster format used in 3D rendering, lighting simulation, and photography to capture high dynamic range (HDR) data. Unlike standard images, .hdr files store luminance values far exceeding the visible spectrum, making them essential for creating realistic lighting in software like Blender and Autodesk 3ds Max. However, this format presents significant challenges: files are large, cannot be displayed correctly in standard web browsers or OS viewers (often appearing washed out or black), and require tone mapping to be usable for print or web. Additionally, a .hdr file might alternatively be a text-based metadata header for ENVI geospatial data or Analyze 7.5 medical images. These header files are useless without their accompanying binary data files (e.g., img, bil) and cannot be converted in isolation. For Radiance images, convert to OpenEXR or 16-bit TIFF to preserve data for professional editing, or to JPG and PNG for web previews. convert.guru automatically distinguishes between image and header formats to guide you to the correct workflow.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your HDR file.
Users also converted MOV, MP4, JPEG, JPG, PNG, MKV, JXR, EXR, WEBM, HEIC, HDF, SEM and MPEG files.
The HDR 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 HDR converter.