P: Please add AVIF file support

We are evaluated adding support for AVIF to Photoshop.

For general information. Release of AVIF support in Firefox was postponed. Mozilla are going to add/fix support for colorprofiles first.

Cool. looking forward to try it.

Thank you so much ❤️

I developed a Photoshop file format plug-in for AVIF images.

The plug-in supports loading and saving single images using 8, 10 or 12 bits-per-channel, image sequences and animations are not supported.

Lossless RGB compression is supported when saving 8-bits-per-channel images, the plug-in considers all bit-depth conversions to be lossy.

Photoshop edits 10-bit and 12-bit data as 16-bit which then has to be remapped to the 10-bit or 12-bit range when saving, and converting 8-bit data to 10-bit or 12-bit will cause a loss of precision.

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

The plug-in is currently only available for Windows, but it should be possible to port it to macOS.

It uses libheif with the AOM decoder and encoder.

Yes, please! I've been converting my images online so far in converters like https://avif.io/, but an inbuilt solution for Photoshop would be much appreciated!!

@Rick Hello Rick. Even Netflix is using AVIF format to speed up their online videostreaming catalog. I guess their designers are forced to rely on external programs/plugins since Photoshop lacks AVIF support.

Just a thought.

Edit: the link i gave is worth reading,

@rocklanddk 

AVIF spec was finalized, and 1.0 was launched Feb 2019, so it’s 2 yrs old next month. Chrome added support in 85 which was released August 2020 (desktop) , Opera added it the following month. Firefox has it going stable next month indeed in 86 (which is now where Nightly is at btw). So March will be 6 months of stable AVIF support from 2 Chromium based browsers on desktop. Edge is working on it ( https://twitter.com/ericlaw/status/1343797396422144001?s=21) 

Chrome/Chromium based browsers has supported AVIF for a long time, and you can enable it in Firefox betas. Looks like Mozilla are going to support it officially in Firefox from version 86 (ETA 2021-02-23): https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1682995

@Rick  Chrome added support for Avif, Windows 10 added support for Avif,

I converted all my photos to Avif, but I still can't open Avif in Photoshop.

is it enough voting for Avif? 🙂

Would you please add Avif support to Photoshop,