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December 14, 2022
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P: JPEG XL support

  • December 14, 2022
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Hello, I would like if JPEG XL support was added into Photoshop. It would allow me to use single format for lossy and lossless photos.

Thanks. 

52 replies

Known Participant
December 14, 2022

You can look at some comparisons here: https://cloudinary.com/blog/time_for_next_gen_codecs_to_dethrone_jpeg Jon Sneyers is main dev and there are more in depth comparisons on Cloudinary blog.

JPEG XL could also partially replace PSD and and TIFF as working format with much better compression. See here: https://www.reddit.com/r/photoshop/comments/kd42nx/jpeg_xl_as_psd_transferstorage_alternative

 

There is a lot to like about JXL.

D Fosse
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Community Expert
December 14, 2022

I had to look this up. According to Wikipedia,

"The standard is expected to outperform the still image compression performance shown by HEIC, AVIF, WebP, and JPEG 2000. It also provides efficient lossless recompression options for images in the traditional/legacy JPEG format.

JPEG XL supports lossy compression and lossless compression of ultra-high-resolution images (up to 1 terapixel), up to 32 bits per component, up to 4099 components (including alpha transparency), animated images"

 

Not bad. Count me in. Why have I never heard of it?