Whenever you open a digital RAW file recorded using a camera, such as the CR2 from Canon, in Adobe Photoshop, you can save it to a special Digital Negative format (.dng), which is what cr2 to dng conversion achieve. The same can be quite often achieved in many of the professional photo editors.
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Conversion of cr2 file format to dng file format beta
Search for cr2 to dng converter or software able to handle these file types.
Convert Canon digital camera RAW image format version 2.0 to Adobe Digital Negative.
We have found 8 software records in our database eligible for .cr2 to .dng file format conversion.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert cr2 to dng on Windows
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Adobe's professional tools for RAW image management and post-production
File extension | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from cr2 file | No | Yes | No | cr2 editor | No | Yes | No | No |
to dng file | Yes, Adobe Photoshop Lightroom supports dng file conversion as a target file type. | Yes | No | No | No | No | Yes | No |
The tables with software actions are a good pointer for what a certain program does with various file types and often may give users a good hint how to perform certain file conversion, for example the above-mentioned cr2 to dng. However, it is not perfect and sometimes can show results which are not really usable because of how certain programs work with files and the possible conversion is thus actually not possible at all.
Adobe Photoshop
One of the best bitmap graphic editing program
Zoner Photo Studio
A program used to manage pictures and photos
Adobe DNG Converter
Utility used to convert RAW digital pictures to Adobe DNG RAW format
PhotoFiltre Studio
A complete image retouching program
HDR Darkroom
A fast and inexpensive app for creating impressive landscape images
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert cr2 to dng on OS X
Adobe Photoshop for Mac
Mac version of popular digital image editor
Linux/Unix software 
- convert cr2 to dng on Linux
darktable
A digital photo editing and converting software for Linux
Additional links: Open cr2 file, Open dng file
CR2
Files with cr2 extension are in most cases digital RAW photographs captured by some of the more recent models of Canon professional digital cameras.
DNG
A dng file extension is related to the Digital Negative (DNG) RAW digital image file format developed by the Adobe Corporation. It is used to store digital RAW pictures captured by digital cameras and DSLRs (Digital Single Lens Reflex cameras).
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