P: Support cataloging PSB files

I am also finding more and more of my final images going beyond the 4gb Tiff/LR4 limit. It is time for Adobe to bring LR up to speed to handle todays photographic possibilities.

Hello Adobe development team.
In the last months, i more and more make gigapanoramas, that are stitched together from several hundred up to thousands of single fotos.

This will give pictures of many many gigapixel. And file sizes of 2 GB or much more.

One recent gigapano i have done is made of 200 jpeg files from Canon 5DM2, and due to overlapping the resulting file size is 110824 x 16263 pixel, 1.8 gigapixel, and 13,4 GB filesize. A .psb file.

As i remember, .psb is a format owned by Adobe. So i don ́t understand why this is not supported by Lightroom, a software that is dedicated to lossless manipulating pictures.

Yes, of course the stitching sofwate can render cropped files. But rendering gigapanos takes a long time. The example picture above takes approximately 8 hours to render.

So it would be a great help and time saver if there were a software that can crop gigapanos in much less than 8 hours.

Thank you!

greetings from germany
Christian Stüben

I have just tried to import a .psb file into Lightroom to make some global adjustments and I am totally disgusted to find out that even the latest version of LR doesn't support their own file format! What is wrong with the people at Adobe? This is a file format that is increasingly being used by photographers working with large panoramic images produced by cameras with high-res sensors so this needs to be supported by LR. It is a no-brainer... Get it sorted Adobe quickly!!

It would be great to add .PSB support to lightroom! Personally I find LR amazingly useful for cateloging my working files as well as my RAW files and sometimes I am called upon to use .PSBs because I've exceeded the limit on .PSD. It would be extremely helpful to be able to incorporate my large photoshop files!

I would like to put in my request to add PSB support as well. I do a lot of stitching of images, then combining of exposures and frequently exceed the limits of TIFF and PSD. Kudos to Adobe for adding support for 32 bit HDR TIFF images recently.

See also:

http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...

Unfortunately, the Any File plugin will not show thumbnails of PSB files on Mac, and it will only show the thumbnails on Windows if you get a third-party codec (e.g. Ardfry's). I'm not aware of a third-party Quicklook plugin for PSB on Mac.

Unlike other application developers, Adobe refuses to provide the necessary thumbnail plugins for PSD and PSB files on Mac and Windows and PDF files on 64-bit Windows. (Apple has implemented Quicklook thumbnails for PSD files but not PSB files.)

I have been using Lightroom since version 1.2. My main use of the application is to create web galleries to show to my clients as well as for exporting my final Photoshop documents as Tiffs and Jpegs. I recently tried importing PSB files and disappointed that Lightroom 3.6 does not import these. It's important to my workflow and from various forum, find that it would be a welcome addition.

Or at least let you see thumbnails for them (like video support)

Lee or Lee Jay

(I"m confused if you have a double-barreled first name, or a first + last as your moniker here)

That recommendation for anyfile may be solution to many of problems. Thanks!

Alan