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P: Ability to export files in the HEIC/HEIF formats

LEGEND ,
Sep 03, 2018 Sep 03, 2018

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Now that HEIC is starting to get some reasonable adoption after iOS 11, it’s great that Lightroom Classic CC can import those files. But it would be even better if it could export them too. For various reasons, I end up exporting from Lightroom to Apple Photos.app, and it seems like a no-brainer for me to use HEIC if Lightroom supported them. (Why not save the extra disk space?)

I know I can export to TIFF or some other lossless format and then use a third-party utility to convert them to HEIC, but that’s too much of a pain. Having native support in the Export workflow would be ideal.

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Adobe Employee , Jan 04, 2024 Jan 04, 2024

Update:

The recent additions of JXL and AVIF formats to Export provided improved quality, fidelity, bit-depth, and file size improvements, largely mitigating the need for this request.  At this time, HEIC exports remain 'not planned.'

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New Here ,
Aug 22, 2024 Aug 22, 2024

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Mr. Flohr,

 

I am now running ios 18's beta and the .JXL format is completely unusable after exporting from Lightroom.  Like it's TRASHED!  Avif has limited functionality, so what does Adobe plan to do to keep Apple subscribers?

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LEGEND ,
Aug 22, 2024 Aug 22, 2024

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AVIF and JPEGXL can be converted pretty easily on the Mac, but refusing to support HEIC is ridiculous.

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New Here ,
Sep 18, 2024 Sep 18, 2024

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I believe the HEIF format is more compact and efficient, and that Lightroom mobile should be able to support it.

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New Here ,
Sep 19, 2024 Sep 19, 2024

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How do you convert it in a way that it shows up properly on the photos app?

So far all the conversions I did never look the same way it in the Develop module

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