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October 31, 2017
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P: Support for HEIC file format (Windows)

  • October 31, 2017
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Support for HEIC file format was included in Lightroom CC but still is needed in Lightroom Classic.  When will it be added?

[HEIC image support was added to LR 7.4 (for Mac OS 10.13 or later) and LR 7.5 (Windows 10).  (We're now at LR 8.2.1.) See https://helpx.adobe.com/lightroom-cc/kb/heic-files-support.html.  

- John Ellis]

331 replies

JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 12, 2017
BTW, the Lightroom camera app has a 'Professional' setting that allows you to manually adjust things like ISO and shutter speed, so you can avoid hand movement problems.
-- Johan W. Elzenga
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 12, 2017
So use another app that can shoot in DNG. There are plenty of them.
-- Johan W. Elzenga
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 12, 2017
There are plenty of good apps (and often better than the Apple app) that can shoot in DNG.
-- Johan W. Elzenga
Known Participant
December 12, 2017
You can't shoot DNG to avoid the problem. Lightroom shoots DNG very poorly. They all are too smeared from hand movements in compare to the standard Camera app.
Known Participant
December 12, 2017
You can't shoot DNG to avoid problem. Lightroom shoots DNG very poorly. They all are too smeared from hand movements in compare to the standard Camera app.
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 12, 2017
On most iPhones you can use DNG nowadays. Maybe not with the Apple camera app, but there are plenty apps (including Lightroom Mobile) that support this.
-- Johan W. Elzenga
JohanElzenga
Community Expert
Community Expert
December 12, 2017
You can shoot in DNG on an iPhone X. Maybe not with the Apple camera app, but there are plenty apps (including Lightroom Mobile) that support this.
-- Johan W. Elzenga
Participating Frequently
December 12, 2017
The difference is - HEIC is the native format on the most popular "camera" in the world. Lightroom's traditional strength has been simple to moderate editing workflows.

I shoot with both a "big" camera and my iPhone and want to mix photos in the same workflow. I can't do that without an ugly and lossy conversion through JPEG today.
Legend
December 7, 2017
They don't even have support for non-flattened PSD files (without Maximize Compatibility) after all these years. I'm not holding my breath.
Inspiring
December 7, 2017
I woud really really really like Lightroom CC Classic to support the HEIF/HEIC format. Any updates?