P: Please add AVIF file support

AVIF support is a critical feature to add to Photoshop. It offers numerous advantages over other web formats:

• Much smaller files (30% typically, but I see up to 85% for some images)
• Better quality (higher bit depth to avoid banding, fewer artifacts typically)
• HDR ("High Dynanic Range") for Apple computers, Android phones, etc which support it.
• Transparency (with a much smaller file than PNG)

There is an excellent 3rd-party plugin for AVIF with Photoshop. However, it is Windows-only and does not support HDR with the metadata required for optimal display. And Adobe Camera RAW already offers very helpful AVIF support, but it cannot be used with batch exports (actions or scripts) and does not support transparency.

With MS Edge now adding support, browser support will soon be nearly universal and this should be a native part of Photoshop.

If you are going to add new web formats, include all of them

WebP, AVIF, HEIC, and JPEGEX are all fairly new and each horse has some people betting on it. Nobody knows which will be the one actually adopted en masse and which ones will be left behind.

Still evaluating, after almost 2 years?

My previous reply was intended for imsaber's post about the plugin at https://github.com/0xC0000054/avif-format

As for Adobe, it is way past time for this support to be implemented. What's the problem, folks? 

Good tip ... if you're running Windows. Unfortunately it is not supported yet on MacOS. 😞

When will you stop evaluating and finally start working?

Instead of giving us features nobody asked for, when will you start developing for your customer's needs again?

It's getting more and more frustrating with Adobe...

They just started supporting .webp format so my guess is it will take them 3 or more years to add .avif support. Here is a plugin that can do this since Adobe has failed at keeping up-to-date with technology: https://github.com/0xC0000054/avif-format

Hey I would just say install this plugin and forget about convincing or arguing with Adobe staff:

https://github.com/0xC0000054/avif-format

Easy-peasy! Cheers.

A year on from the offical 'correct' answer from Adobe, and this format is still not supported.
That's some serious evaluating you guy are doing. Especially as Adobe is an active member of the Alliance for Open Media, which developed the codec in the first place!

It's crazy that behemoths with huge resources at their disposal, are so slow to follow even after 2 years the evolution of the DIGITAL DESIGN STANDARDS !

Dear @strawbo13, I unsterstand that a behemoth like Adobe has a lot of complexity in its producing, but 2 years man, really??

After 2 years that industry top players like Google started to intergrate a new & better file format, and still no news from Adobe?