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PhilipTobias
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January 19, 2012
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P: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PDF, BMP etc.)

  • January 19, 2012
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Feature request: Please add Lightroom support for common Adobe publishing and Web image formats, such as EPS, AI, PDF, GIF, and PNG.

Many of us use Lightroom to manage client images in NEF, JPG, PSD and other formats. But the clients' associated images, which are used on their Websites and in their logos and publications, are invisible to Lightroom. If Adobe Bridge can display these other image formats, why can't Lightroom?

Even if Lightroom did not provide direct editing support for these other image formats, it would still be extremely useful if Lightroom could catalog and display them.

It would also elevate Lightroom from being "just" a photo editor into the realm of being a true Digital Asset Manager (DAM). Now that Lightroom includes basic video support - isn't it time to support all the common image formats that our other CS applications use?

Please vote for, as well as reply to, this request if you would also like to see Lightroom support these additional common image formats...

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    hillrg
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    July 11, 2013
    Yes.
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    July 11, 2013
    Hi, Rory. So you are suggesting that Adobe furnish a robust Software Development Kit (SDK), which would allow third parties to provide additional capabilities, such as improved image format support?
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    hillrg
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    July 11, 2013
    If LR had a comprehensive SDK then a third party could / would deal with this and many other issues. Since LR has limited development resources and modest capabilities outside the develop module this is where I would like to see the Adobe resources expended.
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    July 11, 2013
    Understood, Phil. - but until Lr6 or Lr7 supports GIF, some may prefer limited support over no support at all.
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    July 11, 2013
    That's nice. But many of us don't want converted or duplicate images. We simply want to view and manage our existing images - in whatever format they are already in.
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    July 11, 2013
    Ottomanic Importer (@v3.9) will import gifs by auto-converting them to png (requires ImageMagick).
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    Florian_R_
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    July 10, 2013
    no, I did take a look at the 'whats new in LR5 page' but it wasn't in there :)
    thanks for the info! That makes Lighroom 4->5 upgrade even more interessting.

    GIF to PNG conversion is just a convenience issue, basically its OK for me because if done right its a lossless conversion (compared to GIF->JPG).

    Although for my foto book it wouldn't matter on high JPG quality settings but basically I am on the "maintain as much as original image information as possible" side of the force 🙂
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    July 10, 2013
    If gifs got converted to png, would that be a problem? In other words, is it a convenience issue (doing the conversion I mean), or do you need to maintain the gif format for other purposes.
    areohbee
    areohbee
    Legend
    July 9, 2013
    You are aware Lr5 supports png? (not gif).
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    Florian_R_
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    July 9, 2013
    It would be really great if Lightroom could support GIF+PNG because when creating a book from my last holiday I wanted the add the travel route from my agency to the book but it is in GIF. So this would save me from converting such images.
    Basically I agree that the focus of Lightroom is raw+jpg.
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