P: Please add AVIF file support

Forum|Forum|5 years ago
September 11, 2020
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With AVIF being supported in modern web browsers the need for AVIF as a save as option or export to option would be very helpful. For those of us that still use Photoshop as a primary graphic editor (even for simple web sites) this will become more and more important as JPG's are replaced.

Pinned Reply By Stephen Nielson

AVIF export is now available in Photoshop v26.8. Update your version of Photoshop, and you should find it under File > Save a Copy.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2025-6.html#file-format-support

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kcroy2011

Participating Frequently

I was unable to open an AVIF file until I installed a 3rd party plugin. What happens when you try and open one - does it open in the RAW mode?

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ExUSA

Legend

AVIF export has been available for a while via Camera RAW.

once we slept

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amazing. when is soon? another 5 years?

jane-e

Community Expert

@malavi_5035

See the pinned reply from Employee Stephen Nielsen. It's on its way.

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CandoganMC

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Thank you very much Stephen. At least thank you for answering our request. i believe most of our issues are not the updates but being feel leftover here. i believe your community management can take this comments more seriously to answer us. I am already committed to Adobe and would like to be committed as long as i been feel "cared". Regards,

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malavi_5035

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With AVIF now widely supported in modern web browsers, it’s time for Photoshop to include AVIF as a "Save As" or "Export" option. For those of us using Photoshop as a primary graphic editor, even for simple websites, this feature is becoming crucial as JPGs are gradually replaced. Let’s make web design workflows more efficient Adobe, please add AVIF support!

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gregbenz

Inspiring

@Stephen NielsonThat's fantastic news, thank you!

Stig N

Participating Frequently

Cool! And happy to see the options to keep all meta-data 👍(which is why I usually use the legacy Save for Web functionality rather than the newer Export dialog(*)). Of course it would be convinient to have support where I usually export for web-use. But it will work fine via Save as Copy too 🙂

I also notice there's no option to adjust bit-deepth. Maybe that is coming later - or maybe it is already build into the Quality-slider? I don't know how useful >8bit is for sRGB SDR, but for widegamut color profiles and especially for HDR I guess it will be very useful. And yes, it is so far just a (very promising) beta-version screenshot 🙂

(*) I'm still on Photoshop 2024. Haven't yet dared trying to update to PS 2025, so I don't know how it looks there.

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