P: Please add AVIF file support

It is July, 2024 . . . Still no AVIF, let alone WebP, in the "Export as" dialog.

UNBELIEVABLE!

When is Photoshop Save As .AVIF support coming?

Photoshop IS bloated but more cause of all the old stuff weighing it down and archaic UI.

It's great photoshop can be what it needs to be for different people. But it's also got a bunch of stuff thats duplicated, redundant, and old. Multiple ways to save a gif/jpeg/png (why has "save for web" not been replaced yet), camera raw being a separate thing having multiple redunant photoshop functions for no real reason (granted i'm not mainly a photographer). Thats just naming a few.

But that doesn't mean it shouldn't keep with the times, it just needs a real revaluation.

But then the next user complains that Photoshop is "bloated" and has too many features. I personally never use Artboards so those would be bloat to me, as an example. The nice thing about open software platforms is that you CAN use different tools if you want or need to.

Yeah I'm NOT grandfathered in and I'm pretty sure I'm not re-upping this year. The current price structure doesn't reflect the diminishing value imo. There's real cost to having to constantly relearn interfaces and if I'm bouncing around anyway investing time in constant problem solving for each workflow with every single project I just don't see pretending that the Adobe ecosystem meets all needs anymore. 

I care less and less about whatever bean counter decided to deprioritize this request because pretty soon all of Adobe's image creation and editing software will be obsolete and irrelevant. I already use it at least 80% less than I did just five years ago.

By @5t3v3 

honestly I find it frustrating how much I have to bounce around to different programs just to get what I need. Photoshop used to be a onestop but now clip studio is in it's stride, fresco is nice for sketching, i mainly use photoshop for puppet warp, and occasional game dev needs (and thats shaky cause photoshop does very bad things to PNGs). ScreenToGif is generally more viable for editing and compressing gif files, sometimes video too. I have to use Affinity to open a bunch of formats photoshop doesn't easily support.  Photshop doesn't want to open OEXR files properly like affinity, no JXR, no AVIF (in proper photoshop I couldn't care less about camera raw). Affinity is my only option for viewing and editing images in HDR. 

I just don't like affinity as a program to main it, yet. 

So i'm stuck bouncing to different programs cause photoshop doesn't care about being a market leader for more than photo editing i guess?

At this point the main reason I keep my photoshop sub is cause i'm grandfathered into the $10 a month thing. Not costly enough for me to cancel.

Maybe the program is too old and bloated for a real improvement, hence why there's like 6 different photoshop adjacent programs they've made over time. Why not just leave the current version on maintenance and start over?

15 years using photoshop and saving a gif hasn't changed. Might seem like a nonsequitor but that represents how I feel about photoshop as a whole.

I care less and less about whatever bean counter decided to deprioritize this request because pretty soon all of Adobe's image creation and editing software will be obsolete and irrelevant. I already use it at least 80% less than I did just five years ago.

Apple supports AVIF in Sonoma. Bridge 12 displays AVIF correctly and Photoshop 2024 opens the format. Saving is restricted to ACR, though.

Whats the point of this site if it takes years for things people ask for to get added?

Agreed, .AVIF (and WEBP) file types NEED to be directly supported in the modern Photoshop ecosystem.

In the mean time, PLEASE exclude AVIF from opening in Camera Raw as CR doesn't support transparency.