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Aug 31, 2020 2:51 PM UTC
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How to Open an AVIF File in Photoshop?

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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Sep 22, 2023 4:04 PM UTC

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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Participant
Mar 2, 2023 12:44 AM UTC

@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.

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davescm
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Mar 8, 2023 3:44 PM UTC

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

 

Dave

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Participant
Mar 8, 2023 5:12 PM UTC
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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Participating Frequently
Feb 13, 2023 4:37 AM UTC

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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Participating Frequently
Feb 13, 2023 4:41 AM UTC

But weirdly I can just open it in Illustrator.

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FotoCoachBodo
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Feb 21, 2023 2:08 PM UTC

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.

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Kevin Stohlmeyer
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Sep 19, 2022 5:58 PM UTC

You can download a plugin to support this.

From AVIF site:

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Known Participant
Sep 19, 2022 6:45 PM UTC

Awesome, thank you! Will Adobe incorporate this into future releases?

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Participant
Aug 31, 2020 2:51 PM UTC

When can we expect support for exporting to the AVIF image format?

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davescm
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Aug 31, 2020 3:00 PM UTC

Don't expect, request.

You can raise feature requests at the link below , where they will be seen by Adobe staff.
https://feedback.photoshop.com/photoshop_family

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