P: Add full support for external editing in Rec2020 (critical for HDR and ideal for print)

[gregbenz]

The Rec2020 colorspace (aka ITU-R BT.2020) is a critical colorspace for photography and not well supported in Lightroom Classic.

Rec2020 is the preferred colorspace for HDR (and is LRC's working primaries when in HDR mode). Rec2020 is also very ideal for print-related work as it includes many printable colors which fall outside Adobe RGB / P3, and yet avoids the excess of ProPhoto (which includes many imaginary values outside the range of human vision).

You cannot use it via any "edit in" options to open your image in Photoshop, which is especially important for working with RAW Smart Objects. The colorspace options in LRC preferences / external editing are limited to ProPhoto, Adobe RGB, P3, and sRGB.

This would ideally be done as a "JDI", as both LRC and PS support Rec2020, we simply don't have the option in the colorspace dropdown for external editing.

Note that there is limited support now in the "export" pathway (you can select file settings / color space = "rec 2020"). We just need a way to offer the same colorspace options for external editing.

[johnlee16]

Get it done.......

[ShootingMountaineer]

Adober, you are trending in the right direction with more and more robust HDR support, this would be another great move forward for the workflows of the future!

[MJH613]

Adobe, please add full support for external editing in Rec2020.

[Red Aurora]

Adobe, your products are the best tools for developing HDR on the market today!  Please please consider enabling REC2020 through the entire workflow from input to any output device and passed transparently across all of your tools!

[Patrick Michael]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[davida85916061]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[jpordon]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[Maurizio16DC]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[CARL HINZPETER]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR. And please add HDR in the slide-show. Thanks in advance. Carl Hinzpeter 

[georges25812936]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020. 

[Kevin27822571pbhy]

Agreed, please add!

[sebastienm56447961]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[mikej4252593]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[Steve38102048pr3c]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[davedmiller]

With the use of HDR increasing across devices, full and complete support for Rec2020 should be included across the board, in all Adobe products. 

[BlackRanch08]

Adobe, please add full support for Rec2020 to normalize HDR editing across softwares.

[ctaylor_1]

Full and complete support for Rec2020 should be included across the board, in all Adobe products.

[lkemper]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020. It is crital for the growth of HDR.

[FSt0p]

Hi.

Can you explain why you need it from the practical standpoint?

Apart from "we need it" from people who are obviously watched some of your videos, I don't see why it's so needed.

And honesly those copy/pasted messages just looks like nothing else but spam.
So what's wrong with ProPhoto RGB?

Here is gamut comparison of various color spaces:

ProPhoto is wider than Rec2020, so can encode all colors that can be encoded in Rec2020.
Why not just use "Edit In Photoshop" with ProPhoto colorspace, and than in PS convert to anything you like including Rec2020?

If this is not about PS but about some other external editors - can you name some that support Rec2020, but doesn't support ProPhoto?

[johnw62868647]

Tine to make HDR the standard of the photo editing industry!!!

[Tony_TLJ]

Please add external editing support for Rec2020.  It is crital for the growth of HDR

[Kevin Stohlmeyer]

Locking this post. There is an internal ticket submitted for this request. In the future please upvote the original post do not cut and paste replies as that can be interpreted as spam.