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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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    Julian_z
    Participating Frequently
    March 18, 2013
    I also vote for this - at least PNG would be really necessary.

    Also Export to PNG should be possible.
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
    Known Participant
    January 28, 2013
    Hi, whatsyourproblem.

    To vote for this feature request, just click the +1 button at the top of the message thread.

    Yes, it "beggars belief" that this basic image format support has not yet been included in Lightroom.

    Thank you, and all the others, for your support of this common sense request. ...pt
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 28, 2013
    I don't know how you vote, but I do feel strongly that this is a feature that should have been added before even books, GPS tagging and video support.
    Lightroom is about image management and to miss off something like .png beggars belief.
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    dbur971
    Inspiring
    December 22, 2012
    Thanks, this is better, but 'BMP' was missing from this one originally.
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    dbur971
    Inspiring
    December 22, 2012
    Please support BMP files in Lightroom. I know it's real basic old stuff that no one would use for a photo today, but many BMPs exist in my library and why should I have to go back through time and redo them all as tiffs? Come on, you know how to read BMPs. All your other products do it.

    Export of BMPs would be nice also as sometimes to create a wallpaper or graphic for use in other applications it needs to be a BMP.

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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
    Known Participant
    August 15, 2012
    Yes, John, Adobe has left a lot of us gobsmacked by their lack of common image format support. Your case is a good reason why they should do better.

    Thank you for voting for additional image format support. ...pt
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 15, 2012
    As a long term iView user (long prior to MS taking it over and ...) who has just "updated" to LR, I am gobsmacked by the lack of support for common image formats. PNG is a special request for me. When I moved to digital, I scanned all my old photos - mainly transparencies using a specialist scanner. TIFF was too large a format for high dpi scans (then archiving to DVD) so I converted the scans to png as it was not lossy. THESE ARE PHOTOGRAPHS and I now cannot manage or work with them in LR. I would expect full support (not just import/export) for this common photographic and image format in a mature photographic workflow product.
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    August 12, 2012
    Thanks, 3dworks, for also voting for additional Lightroom image format support, including JPEG2000. I have occasionally used that efficient format, and it is poorly integrated in many applications, apparently including Lightroom.

    Thank you for your vote! ...pt
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 11, 2012
    Please could you add this file format in future versions of LR? At the moment there is just a third party plugin for reading files in this format, no write support.

    As long as no third party developer fills that gap, LR needs an extra conversion workflow by using third party applications, which is not very handy.

    JPEG2000 may be not be this popular among photographers, but it is used in many institutions like museums etc, as it is known to have some huge advantages for archiving big data pools in an effective and error correction friendly way.

    For the interested, some scientific insights about the advantages of JPEG2000 can be found here:

    http://www.dlib.org/dlib/july08/buono...

    cheers

    markus

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    August 7, 2012
    Even if it doesn't support editing these formats, it should still download them from my device when I do an import.
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