How to Open an AVIF File in Photoshop?

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August 31, 2020
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All of a sudden images i use to drag from a browser to the desktop are no longer .jpg, rather they are .avif files and i can not get Photoshop to open them. Is this something Adobe is aware of and will they fix this in the next upgrade? Since its now an industry standard, Photoshop is behind the times...

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Jonas243916175p3s

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You can open Avif on MacOs via open with, then chose photoshop under others, the camera raw dialogue will open and give you its settings, then after "post" is " done" you can open it, but that is where it ends without third party plugin support, if you want to save it, you can save it in the usual formats, but not in avif, export is the same, without plugin export is possible but not to avif, hopefully this will get inhouse support soon.

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jessew58662289

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@davescm the answer you gave is not true. I am currently running 23.5.1 and Photoshop will not open the file. I haven't updated Photoshop further because I'm in college classes that require us to use the apps. They don't update their apps but perhaps once or twice a year, and if I get ahead of them I cannot do my work on both their machine and my own (and their machine is what matters as they are the graders). They don't update as frequently because they have to take precautions and make sure releases are stable or won't brick their $2k Mac desktops in the lab.

davescm

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The answer I gave is true and refers to opening webp - which was being discussed when I gave that answer

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jessew58662289

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No it was not about WEBp. Heck the thread is called how do I open a .avid
file in photoshop. Look again.

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Design-Kink

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Here we go again, the only time I ever type anything on this forum is when I have to complain about software I pay a tidy amount of money for each and every month, that can't do the most basic of tasks, in this case it won't open .AVIF files.

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Design-Kink

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But weirdly I can just open it in Illustrator.

FotoCoachBodo

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I have this problem with avif-Files on Mac also with photoshop. But it can be opened in Bridge !? Why? I don't understand this. I Hope there will be a solution also for Photoshop Mac Users. I do not like to use a separate converting tool.