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September 11, 2020
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P: Please add AVIF file support

  • 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

96 replies

Genius
April 15, 2025

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

Known Participant
April 15, 2025

I mean. Thinking about it, Adobe is just being true to who they are. They made us all wait for the pdf too. They were late. Macs weren't just on the shelves. Users had them for months before they could actually really use them with their fancy new laser printers and all because Adobe couldn't get its [cursing removed] together and deliver on time. Literally no one who uses their overpriced code can get away with treating their customers with the same disdain and lack of professionalism. Not sure why the world ever tolerated it from Adobe.  That plus their ridiculous security and rapacious pricing.  smh   so done.

Known Participant
April 15, 2025

Too little too late. It's been two years now since I cancelled my extremely expensive Adobe Cloud subscription. I avoid Adobe now and guess what, I don't really miss it. There are so many new and better ways to generate content. This paternalistic, uber-hierarchical, monopolistic, hyper-bureaucratic anachronism we know as Adobe is dead to me. This issue right here, documented by this thread, was the proverbial last straw for me. I'm still on this thread because it makes me laugh. Adobe is so clueless. They squandered an enormous amount of loyalty and good-will to alienate me and turn me from a super-user/brand evangelist into an I-dont-care-if-you-roll-out-the-moon, I'll-never-be-back, former customer.

once we slept
Participant
April 15, 2025

amazing. when is soon? another 5 years?

jane-e
Community Expert
Community Expert
April 14, 2025

@malavi_5035 

 

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

 

Jane

 

Participant
April 14, 2025

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,

Participant
April 14, 2025
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!
Inspiring
April 13, 2025

@Stephen NielsonThat's fantastic news, thank you!

Stig N
Participating Frequently
April 11, 2025

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.

Community Manager
April 11, 2025

Yes, this is legit. I lead the product management team for Photoshop.

 

Right now, we are only building it for File > Save As Copy > AVIF