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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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    JohnRolfeEllis
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    January 20, 2012
    Also:

    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
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    Babar_e
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    January 19, 2012
    add 3D image support as well, some camera produce them,and they are just jpeg files with a different extention so nothing needed to display them as 2D images. This would already be great.
    http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
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    PhilipTobiasAuthor
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    January 19, 2012
    Thanks for pointing out some of the many similar requests, John. My feature request wraps up most of those into a single request.

    By the way, my above request originated in the Lightroom 4 beta forum. For practicality, it was suggested that I move it over here.

    I appreciate everyone's vote for this useful, and overdue, support for additional common image formats.

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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 19, 2012
    With you on PNG, its such a standard format and so important for websites.

    Read somewhere that it makes for a better import onto facebook than jpeg, as it forces Facebook to make a better job of compressing any photos.
    I don't know what its like for Picassa / Google + or flickr, but .PNG is a format that is real and supported all over.
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