P: Support cataloging PSB files

I completely agree with Jim! Pleasseeee, make this an update!

And to second what Jim says . . . Lightroom Mobile??? My clients don't pay me to show up and shoot with a cell phone. It's cute, but something I will probably never use . . . . .

Steve Glass

Adobe, listen up!!  Your customers are serious photographers, and we have serious cameras and computers.  Canon already has a 50MP camera, and Nikon soon will.  When we edit these images on Photoshop, AND we use Smart Object layers, the saved image files can quickly exceed 4GB.  When this happens, we can no longer use Lightroom to keep track of (manage) our images.  We have to invent some insane work-around, because Lightroom does not recognize the image format that your Photoshop program creates!!  Your customers have been asking you to plug this hole for 7 years now!  You've poured resources into that Lightroom Mobile feature (for cell phone photographers), and have left your core users to make-up DIY work-arounds for professional-sized images!  WAKE UP ADOBE.  We need a program to manage our images!  ALL OF OUR IMAGES!!

The clock has been ticking for 7 YEARS now.   You've already lost the cell phone photogs to Facebook, Flickr,  500px, SmugMug, iCloud, Google, etc, etc.   Please renew our faith in your support for professional photogs.  We know and love your programs, but images are getting bigger and Lightroom has not kept up.  Make our day Adobe... SHOW US THE LOVE (and the commitment to your loyal customer base).  We can live without bells and whistles, but the main thing Lightroom does is manage our image library.  This is really important.

- Sincerely yours,
  Jim Christensen

I agree with Steve too. But really, Adobe! It is time!

No no no, they need to be visible AND manipulable in Lightroom! There's no point in having files you can't manipulate, like text, etc. One of the major benefits of Lightroom is being able to focus on the images and the images only... but when you can't work across all of the image types it becomes much less useful!
... but everything else you said +1!

+1 here as well. And that's a BIG 1! I really believe that every file type being written by Photoshop should at least be visible in Lightroom!

That said, and my reason to post here, is that I am doing a lot of large panoramas and startrails with my D810. Those files blow the 2 GB file size limitation in a heartbeat. The way I deal with the startrails, is that I am layering 10 shots of startrails into one PSD document. I then link each of theose 10 layer files into a master document and might add a lightpainting plus other layers on top of it. This way I am mostly capable of keeping things below 2 GB.

But off course I hit the wall with a 70 shot startrail now and I am wondering if a TIFF would keep the linked information??

I am posting this somewhat off topic question into this thread because the main problem is that PSB files are not shown in Lightroom. And with a growing catalog it is impossible to memorize the kind of document used in every shot and in the future I might miss that I layered a PSB file to twiddle around the file size limitation if those files are not visible in Lightroom. Please feel free to tell me to open a separate thread for this question!

Bck to the main topic, PLEASE Adobe, enable the display of all images that Photoshop can create in Lightroom. As others said in this thread, I would not mind not being able to manipulate it in Lightroom. But after all, one of the main features of Lightroom is to catalogue our files! All image files at least!

Or at least close the thread and state that this will never happen, or why it hasn't happened yet please!

As a commercial photographer/digital artist using very high resolution cameras, my photoshop build files get to be really big. How big? Big enough to have the need to create .PSB files (Photoshop Large Document Format) in order to keep all of my layers.

I use Lightroom for organizing & processing all of my photo files. The problem is that LR doesn't read the .PSB files. Why is it that Adobe Bridge can see these files, but LR doesn't? It's 2017, shouldn't a program that's called Adobe Photoshop Lightroom support a Photoshop large format file? I think it should. Please add support for .psb files in LR. It would be a tremendous help for anyone working with large format files.

Yes Adobe please, how long do we have to beg!

100% this.

I don't even bother with PSD's anymore because I know they won't make the file size cut 50% of the time. Instead I zip compress TIFFs as that helps with the file-size restrictions, but the saves take so long some times due to the compression, that I have to wait to even see if it will make the cut. If it doesn't I have to begin the process of going through my "backup" layers... "do I really need this..." "hopefully the client likes what I did there and won't regret deleting this option..."
It's silly. 

+1. ...no, +100

I feel so silly deleting layers I know I need to try and meet the file size limitations of TIF/PSD. Files are getting bigger we need PSB support or PSD improvement. whats even more frustrating is the info panel that lists the Doc: size is way off from the actual size, and the process waiting for the could not save dialog is painfully long. I am venting because I just spend 40 minutes trying to save one file....