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marekt93604610
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August 25, 2020
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P: Support for BigTiff file format

  • August 25, 2020
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Dear Adobe team, you must see there is a growing demand for big file use in Photoshop. It is nice, that we have the possibility to save as PSB, but most other tools which i have to work with do not support PSB nor PSD. While Photoshop can read, open and edit BigTiff files, it is unable to save them. We are almost at the and of 2020, please make this a possibility. There are tools out there, that can do math operations Photoshop can not. Aswell as there is Photoshop, that can do things the other tools are unable to. Please connect this by allowing to save with the BigTiff file format. It would certainly expand the possibilities of what we can do with your software.

http://bigtiff.org/

    Pinned Reply By CMass

    Big TIFF has been released as of Ps 26.2. 

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    chokri_KEFI
    Participant
    July 22, 2025

    Thanks a lot @davescm  

     

    found it 🙂

      davescm
      Community Expert
      davescmCommunity Expert
      Community Expert
      July 21, 2025

      @chokri_KEFI Choose TIFF as the file format to Save As and then, in the dialogue that follows, tick 'Use BigTIFF format'.


      Dave

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        chokri_KEFI
        Participant
        July 21, 2025

        Hi ,

         

        i just triend to save a tiff file and there is no big tiff in the options 

        i have the version 26.8.1

         

        any idea ?

         

        Thanks 

        AndrewB_Imaging
        AndrewB_Imaging
        Participant
        July 10, 2025

        Thank you for implementing this Adobe! Just tested it, and worked fine. Great news.

        CMass
        Community Manager
        CMassCommunity Manager
        Community Manager
        July 9, 2025

        Big TIFF has been released as of Ps 26.2. 

          Park Street Printers
          Park Street Printers
          Known Participant
          July 9, 2025

          I also just verified this on a photomerge of a large art installation that made a 7GB file with LZW compression.

          davescm
          Community Expert
          davescmCommunity Expert
          Community Expert
          July 9, 2025

          @Matthew31361620g7g0 @Park Street Printers 

          Big TIFF is an option in the TIFF save dialogue in the current version 26.8.1. Use Save as and select TIFF to see the dialogue.  I just tested it and saved, and then re-opened, a 12GB Tiff file.
          Note : I use Windows 11, I can't test on Mac

           

          Dave

            Park Street Printers
            Park Street Printers
            Known Participant
            July 9, 2025

            I've saved several files as BigTiff in Photoshop recently, unless I've lost my mind, which is possible. I sometimes do very high resolution work that exceeds 4GB in file size, and I don't need to have all the features of a psb, so I save as a BigTiff. I only started using that format very recently.

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            Matthew31361620g7g0
            Participating Frequently
            July 9, 2025

            At the Ohio State University Libraries, we would also love to see BigTiff support. It would be very useful for us when creating large tiled files of artwork.

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            Kieran388063324gk2
            Participant
            July 25, 2024

            I also really need this feature for working with large planetary heightmaps and performing image processing on them.

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