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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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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 9, 2017
    hi John Please could you explain how to get it? I have gone to the Adobe Add-ons page and searched for Any File, anyfile, any - but not got a result at all. Searching for file finds something totally unrelated. OK I did a google search and found it on your home page, rather than on adobe. It is a free trial then paid for (albeit with a very friendly option) plug-in. Not sure its worthwhile for so far one GIF, but I will have to see what other files I'm missing compared to my previous DAM program.
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    FeedbackCommunityMember
    Inspiring
    January 9, 2017
    I've just found this out and am gobsmacked. I created the GIF in Photoshop from a series of photos, exported it, and now can't use it in Lightroom. Yet Lightroom reads videos. Astounding. I came to Adobe Creative CLoud because it was supposed to be more of a standard than the DAM that I had been using. Now I find it does less. My vote has been cast for Adobe to include them, even if only to enable Lightroom to be more of a PROPER cataloguing program. I thought so! I previously had Photoshop Elements 12, and that can handle GIFs and also PDF files. Now I am even more amazed that the supposedly professional better option cannot.
    Michael Naylor
    Michael Naylor
    Participating Frequently
    November 3, 2015
    Another option is to wait until Affinity launch their DAM in 2016.
    Michael Naylor
    Michael Naylor
    Participating Frequently
    November 3, 2015
    Without any kind of announcement to my knowledge, it is now possible to change your Adobe ID. Something that may be necessary if you change your email supplier as I have done. Well done Adobe, you've done something that Apple is incapable of, but zero marks for not informing me that this is now possible.
    johnrellis
    johnrellis
    Genius
    November 3, 2015
    Check out my Any File plugin -- it's intended for exactly this purpose. Not as convenient as having it builtin to LR, but it gets the job done.
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    threeshinyapples
    Participant
    November 3, 2015
    I would love to be able to import non-image files into Lightroom's database. It would be a very useful feature.

    An example of where this would be useful: I occasionally have additional files which are associated with a set of photos. Notes in text files, information in PDFs, audio files, and so on. I can copy these files to the same folder as the photos in the library. But without the ability to see these files in Lightroom, to add keywords and make them searchable, they are effectively lost forever among the thousands of other files and directories.

    The ability to manage these files in Lightroom would be extremely valuable. I would not expect Lightroom to support editing or even preview of non-image files. Just the ability to keep track of them.
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    Kim Letkeman
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2015
    Sigh ... Adobe continue to run like two separate teams that only loosely collaborate, and that really hurts the suite. Heck, I pay 10 bucks a month in perpetuity so that I can use both seamlessly ... and that vision has certainly not quite arrived ...
    Michael Naylor
    Michael Naylor
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2015
    I've posted a similar post on the Adobe forum and got a near instant response from support. He says Adobe are working on an updated Bridge. Most of my work ends up in Photoshop, so I mainly use LR only for RAW conversion, exporting, and its catalogue. Maybe an updated Bridge will suite me better.
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    Thany2
    Known Participant
    September 24, 2015
    About your first paragraph: precisely. Adobe knows damn well how to read animated GIFs, and Lightroom is already capable of handling video - Animated GIF is nothing but mute video in essence.

    About your other statements: a bit offtopic, is it not? I suggest you create a different topic for those, although I do agree.
    Michael Naylor
    Michael Naylor
    Participating Frequently
    September 24, 2015
    I've only recently become aware of another need for GIF file support - in particular: for Animated GIFs or Cinemagraphs produced by Photoshop CC 2015. So, I'm really surprised to discover my LR CC 2015 is unable to add them to the catalogue.

    I also notice that Bridge is listed under "Previous Versions" in that ridiculous Creative Cloud App that take so long to verify my account - a possible indicator that Adobe is allowing Bridge to vanish altogether.

    And another thing: they are unable to change my Adobe ID (i.e. my email) and say I must delete my current subscription and create a new one to do this. I find that to be pathetic.

    All this is causing me to become p***ed off and look elsewhere, but there just isn't a viable Photoshop alternative for the type of work I do. They have me by the short and curlys.
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