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April 27, 2025
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Please add support for exporting JXL (JPEG XL)

  • April 27, 2025
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It's great to see that AVIF support is coming to Photoshop!

 

There is another modern file format which would be very helpful to have in Photoshop: JPEG XL (ie "JXL" file extension). While it currently lacks the high degree of browser support offered by AVIF, it otherwise offers many benefits over AVIF which are useful for a variety of uses:

  • JXL supports up to 32-bit depth (vs maximum 12 for AVIF). This makes it much more suitable for an image which is intended to undergo further editing.
  • JXL offers effectively unlimited pixel dimensions, while AVIF has significant constraints for full resolution images (tiling can expand these limits, but with some risks at the edges and I've seen some tiled AVIF images open up as if they were 13 different photos).

This makes JXL a much more attractive file format for sending images to a print lab than AVIF, JPG, or TIF. It offers very high quality/resolution in a very small file.

 

Assuming browser support grows, JXL would also offer these additional benefits:

  • JXL supports progressive decoding, so that you can see a decent version of the image much when viewing over a slow connection.
  • JPG images may be recompressed to JXL with no further loss of quality. This makes it very easy to significantly improve website performance (with no impact to image quality).

 

There are additional benefits to JXL, as detailed here. Like AVIF, JXL supports high quality in small files, transparency, HDR, and more. With the benefits above for both print and web, JXL would also offer simplicity as a single file format could be used in an optimal way for a much wider range of uses.

 

Note: LR and ACR already support JXL exports That is great, but ACR does not offer a simple and efficient export workflow, many people use PS and not LR, and PS support enables much more powerful workflows (actions, scripts, panels, etc may all help process images and export JXL if there were support). So adding support to PS as well would be very valuable.

11 replies

D Fosse
Community Expert
Community Expert
September 16, 2026

You can Save to JXL. So it is already supported and has been for quite some time

However, it’s not available in the Export module, if that is specifically what you need. It should be noted that Export still doesn’t support actions, so you’d have to use Save for that anyway.

Several (mainly web-related) file formats have been added to Photoshop recently: JPEG XL, WebP and AVIF - as Save options. Export support may come later, but the Export module is still unfinished work and we’re still waiting for a number of critical functions.

 

EDIT - oops, old thread, don’t know why it came out on top.

Participant
September 16, 2026

A JPEG XL, WebP and AVIF save option belongs in “Save for Web” too with all the options on one page (like the JPEG settings).

Doppelkammertoaster
Participating Frequently
September 25, 2025

@Scott Hausmann Bridge supports jxl for a while already. It is a bit weird though. If it can save metadata directly into the file depends on how that jxl was made. I noticed that it cannot do it if the image was saved with an older decoder but can if with a newer one.

There is a plugin for Windows to show thumbnails for jxl, but Microsoft is as ever slow to actually add modern formats to their OS officially.

Inspiring
August 21, 2025

@Scott Hausmann are they not showing up for you or you meant some other kind of work?

 

 

Participant
August 20, 2025

I'm wondering if you know if and when Adobe will update Adobe Bridge to work with JXL files?

gregbenzAuthor
Inspiring
June 19, 2025

@Stephen Nielson Great to see this progressing, however the current release seems to have a bug. Behind a certain pixel size, the file output is much larger than expected.

Community Manager
June 18, 2025

JPEG XL 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

Participant
September 16, 2026

This is the kind of features you should avert about.
Yes, it may be not very attractive to marketing users (Express Boards are cool),
but for some, this is the kind of news we were waiting for!
Now put it simply, as .webp, in the export submenu, please.
Something like “Export modern formats”. Pretty appealing.

Legend
April 28, 2025

JPEG XL export is available via Camera RAW.

Participant
April 28, 2025

Come on Adobe its a no brainer, please provide support for JXL files

Fritsx
Participant
April 27, 2025

Yeah, that would be a great additition to Photoshop.