P: Support for HEIC file format (Windows)

David Sanger's understanding is correct. This isn't a sign of a dying product. It's a sign of a brand new file format that has all sorts of technical and legal ramifications.

My understanding is:
 - Photoshop - Yes
 - Lightroom CC - Yes
 - Lightroom CC Classic - No

Actually it is not implemented in Lightroom CC. You can't import HEIC photos into Lightroom CC on the desktop, and any images imported on mobile devices just get converted to JPEG.

It's implemented in Photoshop.
It's implemented in Lightroom CC.

So the code is there, and so is the $ to implement it. From subscribers such as myself who are promised 'extra features and upgrades for subscribing'.

That it's still 'under consideration' for Lightroom Classic' tells you how much Adobe want to invest in Lightroom Classic - as little as possible. It's clearly a dying product, and Adobe hope people switch to Lightroom CC before they get to wise and jump ship to another company.

It's appalling.

Yup, nothing like having an "import" perform a lossy compression without telling you.

Google's getting in on the act - the next major version of Android (P) will support .heif photos. This has to be on Adobe's radar.

277. Happy Friday everyone!

I heard that the Luminar LR competitor might release in mid-May, so let's call it 2 months = 60 days. Might add that to the count, too.

Ah, so even worse than I thought. Thx.

I don't see that. My iPhone 7plus images are shot in HEIC. If I add them to Lightroom CC they get converted to JPEG on import.
Furthermore if I instead transfer the HEIC file to my MacBook Pro, the desktop version of Lightroom CC cannot see or add them to the catalog.
This  means Adobe really doesn't yet really support the format even in Lightroom CC.

270. Happy Friday everyone!

Also near as I can tell, HEIF/HEIC support was added to LR CC in mid-October, so call it 135 days ago now. I'll add that to the count 🙂