P: Please add AVIF file support

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

With AVIF being supported in modern web browsers the need for AVIF as a save as option or export to option would be very helpful.  For those of us that still use Photoshop as a primary graphic editor (even for simple web sites) this will become more and more important as JPG's are replaced.

[jane-e]

@SSL-ADT wrote "Please define the word "soon". Days, weeks or months?"

I am a volunteer who does not work for Adobe. Stephen Nielson, Senior Product Manager for Photoshop, used the word "soon" in his pinned reply. I am guessing that it means the same as you do — days, weeks, or months, but not years. When AVIF support is available, it will be anounced in this thread.

The public Beta version of Photoshop is for testing and for providing feedback to the developers. New features go there first for testing, then make it into the released version.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/photoshop-beta-desktop-app.html

Jane

[gregbenz]

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[Firewave]

Any updates on similar support for JPEG XL?  (hopefully including both its lossy and lossless options)  We badly need it for projects we're working on now that it has widespread support across macOS/iOS/Safari.  It's been available in Afinity Photo for some time...

[Stephen Nielson]

AVIF export is now available in the Photoshop Beta. Make sure you are on the latest version of Photoshop Beta, and then go to File > Save a Copy, and choose AVIF from the Format dropdown.

This feature is still in Beta so that we can collect feedback before releasing to everyone in the main app. Please comment here on any feedback you have!

[gregbenz]

@Stephen NielsonLooks great, thank you for adding support! Really nice to see the granular options offered here.

A few areas of feedback:

• Alpha compression settings are ignored, file size never changes with any of the options. Seems like user input is ignored.
• When choosing lossless, should probably force 444 sub-sampling (or warn user) as the other options result in loss of fidelity.
• With high quality settings, slow encoding actually produces a larger file than medium encoder speeds. Is this expected within the AVIF spec?

[Dunham13031955]

GOOD MORNING
I can save avif images normally in Photoshop. However, I tested saving an image in webp with a transparent background and converted it to avif in Pikflow. However, when I load this image in Photoshop, it goes straight to Camera Raw and has a black background, although the images when loaded in other applications such as Canva have a transparent background.
Does anyone know if there is a way to solve this?
I am not using the beta version

[BengalStar]

Ok so no support for 32 bits with AVIF.

- Can someone explain how to convert a 32bits HDR image to 16bits without loosing / distorting the HDR part of the image (gamma=1, expsoure=0 without clipping HDR)? This must be possible since ACR can export to AVIF and thereafter open in Photoshop as a 16bits while HDR is preserved!

- I imported AVIF and JPEG XL to IOS Photos (on iPhone 16 Pro). Only AVIF from ACR shows HDR in IOS. This is not Adobe problem I know but please we need a solution to edit HDR in Photoshop and get back to devices supporting HDR.

Thanks!

[BengalStar]

Ok now I just found it is possible to save to AVIF with HDR support from a 32 bits image by using the ACR filter from Photoshop directly. 

[Stephen Nielson]

AVIF export is now available in Photoshop v26.8. Update your version of Photoshop, and you should find it under File > Save a Copy.

https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2025-6.html#file-format-support