P: Support cataloging PSB files

[alanterra]

Lightroom should catalog psb files, just as it does psd files. I have many psb files that are not over the 65,000 pixels per side or 512 megapixel limits, but are larger than the 4GB limit on psd files, and it would be nice to see them in Lightroom.

[davidg19038978]

The original request was 8 years ago to ask Adobe to support their own format in Lightroom. Like many other photographers I run into the size limit often when using a high megapixel camera and doing focus stacking, exposure blending in Photoshop.

ON1 has no problems working with PSB files and I am having to consider switching products.

I wish Adobe would make it a priority, add this request to the just do it list and release support for PSB with the next update.

[Guest]

The truth is, we threaten we are going to switch, but not enough people actually do it.

[davidg19038978]

Just noticed I had replied to this thread but not voted as my original post had been merged with this thread. Wonder if there are others who haven't voted too?

If this thread had more votes maybe Adobe would increase the priority of implementing it?

[John R Ellis]

More votes always help to get Adobe's attention (of course, votes are just one factor among many in Adobe's decision-making). But note that this request, with 155 votes, is already very popular, the 13th most popular unimplemented feature request. 

[John R Ellis]

1. In the search box for this forum, search for "lightroom".

2. In the search results page, click on Advanced Search.

3. In the search box, delete "lightroom" and set these exact settings:



4. Click Search.

[Guest]

I have tried posting this thread to other Lightroom forums and tweeting the link as well. We should all trying get this thread in front of as many people as possible.

[danmarker]

if only Russian trolls used PSB this issue would be the #1 issue and be fixed by now

[danmarker]

8 years?!? Come on Adobe, support your files already..... please 

[naestyoh]

If it helps, as a stopgap, I have been using a "link' method to edit the PSB file in LR by creating a single-layer TIFF with linked PSB. Any changes to PSB get passed to the TIFF. There's a youtube video on the process. 

[Roland_Rick]

Thanks for having started this thread. -  But isn't it instead of "should" much more a complaint "Why does Lightroom Classic (I never work with the other one) not catalog PSB files?" - Incompatible within their own environment... It's completely incomprehensible to me. - Honi soit qui mal y pense...

[Stephen Newport]

8 years......

[Roland_Rick]

Yeah, same like the preview for the Radial and Zoom blur filter. Once found somewhere a complaint on this dated 2004. That's really quick offering solutions on customer enhancement requests and a perfect demonstration of Adobe's amazing customer awareness (may contains sarcasm). I apply that filter in Affinity Photo. Way more convenient. In Photoshop you must still guess the center and do the try and error game utillising a smart object. Just compare, 1. is Ps CC 2019, 2. is Affinity Photo 1.7.x (but it was already there in all prior version):

Ps CC 2019, tool in cool A.D. 1997 or so style


Affinity Photo's tool. 40 bucks, no subscription. As long you don't click Apply, you can move the centre anywhere without any latency. It's one of the very rare destructive filters of AP, so, make a layer copy first. However: because mostly there is a detail you do not want to have blurred in the centre, you normally mask it on a separate layer anyway:

[Roland_Rick]

Sorry, first posting did only show up empty text, because the forum software does not accept emojis and rejects all content... Now text and example images are in...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

4 Months and still no movement on this? Maybe we can get it back in Bridge '20...

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

How can I use PSB files within LR CC? Currently I convert them to TIFF and import this to LR. It is strange to me that Adobe doesn't support its own image file format in LR.

[naestyoh]

There's a way. Hit up youtube for the walkthrough. You can open the PSB in PS, then do some sort of export as reference to a PSD single-layer then import that to LR and all changes you make to the PSB in PS will be propagated to that PSD. 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Adobe!!!! - It is ridiculous and insulting to photographers that Lightroom Classic does not support your own "psb" file format!!! Shame on you!

[thibaudr73078643]

Yes indeed

[ChristopherHauser]

We need PSB support or a different solution for LR...

[ChristopherHauser]

This is getting embarrassing for a company like adobe... it has been ages and modern cameras hit the limit so easily.

[naestyoh]

Yeah, but while it seems like an easy fix, I think it would take some considerable re-coding to expand the variables to allow PSB. That's the roadblock. Maybe something like LR9 will have it? For now, there is a workaround if you absolutely need LR editing of a PSB using "Linked Smart Objects"

[Amitzi Photography]

and yet Adobe seem to have the resources to create a whole other version of LR no one really asked for!!! I think that the Photoshop format is seriously outdated anyhow. Right now the slowest part of my workflow is saving Photoshop files in either PSD or TIFF files. 

[davescm]

I think the complex recoding argument falls down after 8 years, which is now the age of this request. PSB is after all Adobe's own file format and , as Christopher says, modern cameras hit the limit easily.

[naestyoh]

4GB? Easily? I do hit it but with 20-image pani stitches. Not “easy”. But I’m onboard with psb in LR

[naestyoh]

Amit - speed it up by unchecking psd compression. It’s 10x faster without.... if you have the disk space.