You can use Adobe Photoshop, Zoner Photo Studio and other applications listed in our conversion list to try convert Canon digital camera RAW image (*.cr2) to Digital camera photo RAW image format (*.raw). However this conversion can cause irreversible changes in RAW image attributes.
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Conversion of cr2 file format to raw file format beta
Search for cr2 to raw converter or software able to handle these file types.
Found 2 different conversion types using the same filename extensions.
Conversion cr2 to raw type 1:
Convert from Canon digital camera RAW image format version 2.0 to Digital camera photo RAW image format.
Microsoft Windows software 
- convert cr2 to raw on Windows
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom is set of tools used to manage and post-product photo images. It is used for viewing, editing, and managing digital photos. It is support variety of picture image formats as well as camera RAWs. The latest version is Lightroom 6. It is available either as standalone or as part of Adobe Creative Cloud also known as Adobe Photoshop Lightroom CC.
File extension | File type (from-> to) | Convert | Open | Save | Edit | Create | Import | Export | Extract |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Convert from cr2 file | Canon digital camera RAW image format version 2.0 | No | Yes | No | cr2 editor | No | Yes | No | No |
to raw file | Digital camera photo RAW image format | No | Yes | No | raw editor | No | Yes | No | 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 raw. 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.
Zoner Photo Studio
Zoner Photo Studio is application used to manage photos and pictures. Photo Studio can also convert, edit and apply effects to picture images. Photo Studio supports variety of picture formats as well as photo RAW formats. Zoner Studio is available in three editions, Pro, Home and Free.
HDR Darkroom
HDR Darkroom is a professional program used to produce producing sophisticated looking HDR images.
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is great photography editing software that offers numerous features, powerful tools and other breakthrough capabilities to offer their users maximum performance for image editing.
The latest version, Photoshop CC is available through the new Adobe Creative Cloud suite. The previous version was Photoshop CS6.
ArcSoft PhotoStudio
PhotoStudio is digital photo managing and editing application. PhotoStudio application featuring an array of advanced tools, filters and special effects inside a very friendly user interface.
PhotoFiltre Studio
PhotoFiltre Studio is a complete image retouching program. It allows users to do simple or advanced adjustments to any image or photograph and apply a vast range of filters on it.
ACDSee Photo Manager
ACDSee Photo Manager is popular photo editor and manager for Microsoft Windows. ACDSee is able to open variety of graphics file formats as well as RAW photo image formats and convert them. ACDSee can edit, retouch and finalize photos and share them on popular photo banks such as flickr, Smugmug, SendPix.
ACDSee is used to organize and edit digital photos. ACDSee supports over 100 popular formats including BMP, GIF, IFF, JPG, PCX, PNG, PSD, RAS, RSB, SGI, TGA and TIFF.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software 
- convert cr2 to raw on OS X
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom for Mac
Adobe Photoshop Lightroom also comes in version for Mac OS X. The program is used for management and post-production of photo images in professional level. It can be used to view, edit and manage RAW digital photos. It is support most of the classic image formats as well as several camera RAWs.
The latest version is Lightroom 6. It is available either as standalone or as part of Adobe Creative Cloud.
Adobe Photoshop for Mac
Adobe Photoshop for Mac is popular image editing application. It is able to create and compose images, edit photos and supports variety of image formats to open, export and convert.
The latest version, Photoshop CC is available through the new Adobe Creative Cloud suite. The previous version was Photoshop CS6.
Linux/Unix software 
- convert cr2 to raw on Linux
darktable
Digital photos editing and converting tool for Linux operating system, darktable is used for management and editing of digital negatives (RAW files) in a database and enables users to enhance them.
Conversion cr2 to raw type 2:
Convert from Canon digital camera RAW image format version 2.0 to Adobe Photoshop RAW file.
Microsoft Windows software - convert cr2 to raw on Windows
Adobe Photoshop
Adobe Photoshop is great photography editing software that offers numerous features, powerful tools and other breakthrough capabilities to offer their users maximum performance for image editing.
The latest version, Photoshop CC is available through the new Adobe Creative Cloud suite. The previous version was Photoshop CS6.
Apple macOS / Mac OS X software - convert cr2 to raw on OS X
Adobe Photoshop for Mac
Adobe Photoshop for Mac is popular image editing application. It is able to create and compose images, edit photos and supports variety of image formats to open, export and convert.
The latest version, Photoshop CC is available through the new Adobe Creative Cloud suite. The previous version was Photoshop CS6.
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