HEIF

[CekariYH]

Hi,

Canon, Sony and a few others have had the newer HEIF fileformat HIF for some years now.

When will Adobe support those???

Been longing for skipping jpg altogether a long time now.

Ok, some willl say use RAW and I do mostly but sometimes one need the smaller filesize and HIF are supperior to jpg etc.

/CekariYH

[Ged_Traynor]

Hi

Have you tried this

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/ps-heic-codec.html

[CekariYH]

Oh, sorry forgot to say on MacOS, and the Adobe them selfs say they don't support HIF.

[wallheater]

Another Mac user here, really angry to find no support for HEIF in the Photoshop and Lightroom software I have been renting for years. 5 years since the first HEIF question on this forum, and almost 2 years since HEIF support is alleged for Windows. Am I wrong?

As a compact, high-bit-depth format, HEIF would be great input for Lightroom Develop to create JPGs with some creative control, instead of the "batch convert to JPG" tools that seeem to be our only option.

[jane-e · Accepted solution]

@CekariYH and @wallheater 

HEIF is supported on macOS. Windows users need to install the CODECs from Microsoft first.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#HEIFHEIC

Jane

[CekariYH]

No, HEIF are supported by MacOS but NOT with Photosop!

[wallheater]

This answer is not "correct." HEIF being supported by Mac or Windows is beside the point.

What we want is for Adobe to make PS or LR able to "develop" HEIF images, similar to RAW images. 

Converting to JPEG first, with our OS's native tools or 3rd party software, eliminates the "develop" control that we want. It is also a terrible workflow.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

This answer is not "correct." HEIF being supported by Mac or Windows is beside the point.

What we want is for Adobe to make PS or LR able to "develop" HEIF images, similar to RAW images. 

Converting to JPEG first, with our OS's native tools or 3rd party software, eliminates the "develop" control that we want. It is also a terrible workflow.

By @wallheater

Your requirement to "develop" HEIF images was not the original request on the topic from 2022 that you have commented on, so it would seem that you have "moved the goalposts" on this, that is not what @jane-e was commenting on back in 2022. The original poster didn't exactly specify what they meant by "support HEIF". Does this mean open? Does this mean save? Does this mean something else?

EDIT: On the Mac, I can select a file with a .HEIC or .HEIF extension in Adobe Bridge and use the Cmd + R command to open this into Adobe Camera Raw and "develop" it.

[Powerstranger]

I am having the same issue opening .HIF files produced on a Sony A7IV. But randomly I tried renaming the file from .HIF to .HEIF and Photoshop and Lightroom opened the files.

It's a shame that we can't just directly opening them in Lightroom and Photoshop.

[jane-e]

@Powerstranger 

You didn't say your OS, but if you are on macOS, you can convert from HIF with Preview. Microsoft Windows requires an additional purchase. Details here:

https://fileinfo.com/extension/hif

Jane

[streganonawithlove]

Yep, definitely works if you rename the files from .HEIF to .HIF. But that takes a fair amount of time if you have multiple files to go through and process. Not sure why Adobe chooses not to let the .HIF extension open. Seems like a simple fix. Especially as merely renaming a file, without any conversion whatsoever, works.

Adobe, this should be fixed right away. This hints of laziness.

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Yep, definitely works if you rename the files from .HEIF to .HIF. But that takes a fair amount of time if you have multiple files to go through and process.

By @streganonawithlove

You can use Adobe Bridge, a Photoshop script the Mac Finder or another tool to batch rename the file extension, which takes next to no time at all.

 Adding native support for HEIC/HEIF/HIF etc. rather than relying on OS support would be ideal.

You can start a new topic marked as an "idea", not as a "discussion" for a feature request for native Photoshop file format support (it eventually happened for WebP for Save, but not Export).

[CekariYH]

Doesn't work for me.