Convert JPG to EXR

Digital artists and matte painters often need to integrate their JPG concept art into high-end compositing workflows in software like Nuke or Fusion. Converting to EXR preserves color depth and dynamic range, allowing for non-destructive color grading and seamless blending with CGI elements.

E-commerce and advertising professionals can convert flat product JPGs into the EXR format to recover highlight and shadow detail. This provides greater flexibility for color correction, background replacement, and creating high-dynamic-range marketing materials without the banding or artifacts common in 8-bit files.

Architectural visualizers use this conversion to take rendered stills from a standard JPG into a linear EXR workflow. This is essential for applying accurate lighting adjustments, lens effects, and adding realistic environmental elements in post-production without degrading the original image data.

Researchers and medical professionals sometimes convert JPG representations of medical scans, like X-rays or MRIs, to the EXR format. The 32-bit floating-point data allows for more precise analysis, measurement, and annotation of subtle details that are lost in the compressed 8-bit JPG format.

Film archivists and restoration artists convert low-dynamic-range JPG scans of film negatives to EXR. This process helps reconstruct a wider gamut, providing a better starting point for digital restoration, dust busting, and color grading to match the original film print's quality.

In geospatial analysis, converting JPG aerial photographs to EXR allows for superior processing of terrain data. The EXR's high bit depth preserves subtle variations in land texture and elevation, which is critical for creating accurate digital elevation models and land classification maps.

3D artists working in game development or VFX convert texture source images from JPG to EXR to utilize them as linear, high-fidelity image-based lighting (IBL) or as high-bit-depth texture maps. This eliminates gamma issues and provides cleaner, more physically accurate renders.

Libraries and museums convert digitized JPGs of fragile historical documents, manuscripts, or photographs to the EXR format for long-term digital archiving. EXR's lossless compression and high dynamic range ensure that all recoverable detail is preserved for future study and high-quality reproduction.

VR/AR developers and 3D lighting artists convert 360-degree JPG light probe images (used to capture real-world lighting) into EXR. This conversion is a crucial step for using these images as high-dynamic-range environment maps that can accurately light 3D models and virtual scenes.

Scientists and photomicrographers convert JPG images taken through microscopes to EXR to retain the maximum amount of data from their specimens. The extended dynamic range is vital for quantifying features, performing image analysis, and creating publication-ready figures that accurately represent the research.