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Lightroom: Support Common Image Formats (EPS, GIF, PDF, BMP etc.)
Feature request: Please add Lightroom support for common Adobe publishing and Web image formats, such as EPS, AI, PDF, GIF, and PNG.
Many of us use Lightroom to manage client images in NEF, JPG, PSD and other formats. But the clients' associated images, which are used on their Websites and in their logos and publications, are invisible to Lightroom. If Adobe Bridge can display these other image formats, why can't Lightroom?
Even if Lightroom did not provide direct editing support for these other image formats, it would still be extremely useful if Lightroom could catalog and display them.
It would also elevate Lightroom from being "just" a photo editor into the realm of being a true Digital Asset Manager (DAM). Now that Lightroom includes basic video support - isn't it time to support all the common image formats that our other CS applications use?
Please vote for, as well as reply to, this request if you would also like to see Lightroom support these additional common image formats...
Many of us use Lightroom to manage client images in NEF, JPG, PSD and other formats. But the clients' associated images, which are used on their Websites and in their logos and publications, are invisible to Lightroom. If Adobe Bridge can display these other image formats, why can't Lightroom?
Even if Lightroom did not provide direct editing support for these other image formats, it would still be extremely useful if Lightroom could catalog and display them.
It would also elevate Lightroom from being "just" a photo editor into the realm of being a true Digital Asset Manager (DAM). Now that Lightroom includes basic video support - isn't it time to support all the common image formats that our other CS applications use?
Please vote for, as well as reply to, this request if you would also like to see Lightroom support these additional common image formats...
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hamish_niven
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1.9K Points
9 years ago
Read somewhere that it makes for a better import onto facebook than jpeg, as it forces Facebook to make a better job of compressing any photos.
I don't know what its like for Picassa / Google + or flickr, but .PNG is a format that is real and supported all over.
Plus one from me
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John_R_Ellis
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9 years ago
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philip_tobias
68 Messages
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2.5K Points
9 years ago
By the way, my above request originated in the Lightroom 4 beta forum. For practicality, it was suggested that I move it over here.
I appreciate everyone's vote for this useful, and overdue, support for additional common image formats.
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eric_bayard
136 Messages
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4.7K Points
9 years ago
http://feedback.photoshop.com/photosh...
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wayne_lattuca
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152 Points
9 years ago
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lee_jay_fingersh
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9 years ago
I don't know if that counts as support for this request or not.
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lee_jay_fingersh
947 Messages
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9 years ago
Because Lightroom isn't part of the Creative Suite, which has tools to display and edit the files you mention, while Lightroom doesn't.
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philip_tobias
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9 years ago
Baloney. There is no reason to hobble Lightroom like this, Lee. Quit making excuses for its lack of support for common image formats that most of us use.
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peter_frandsen
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114 Points
9 years ago
I do FULLY support your feature-request for a extended, in the world outside Adobe, STANDARD and daily used fileformats! I'm going over to vote now on your request.
FYI:
I have, like you, made this request in many Adobe- & Apple-related forums since even before 2009. Also Apples Aperture does support all formats already, but it's way to slow to work with when you have like 80' or so mediafiels to keep track of. In our case, we're 4 people using a mix of CS5 (mostly Photoshop), Lightroom, iPhoto, Final Cut Pro, Xcode etc and a central Lightroom media archive on a NAS that we all could share and maintain (metadata etc) would be just fine - IF it just supported all common filestypes. Don't know now yet if Bridge CS5 will work for us (looking at it now...).
So I think Adobe is actually shooting themself in the foot here, since I'm actually just started to look around for a DAM solution (again), taking another look at other competitors etc. I'm definitly not alone doing this. Just how patient do you have to be with Adobe?
Keep the request-fire going, we all need this common file-support. God job Phillip :-)
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philip_tobias
68 Messages
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2.5K Points
9 years ago
Although Adobe Bridge supports more file formats, it is a nuisance to use alongside of Lightroom. If you're already in the correct folder in Lightroom when you realize a file you are looking for isn't there, it can take minutes to launch Bridge and navigate to exactly the same folder to look again. That is a major productivity waster - it takes you entirely off task.
It would be much better if Lightroom itself could catalog and display these other common file formats that many of us every day.
Thanks again. ...pt
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simon_king_3561468
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1.3K Points
9 years ago
wasn't that the reason Bridge had so many problems - it was supporting just about every format known to man?
(I know it might be fixed now but I gave up on bridge a few version back as it was completely unusable , I was told at the time, for this reason - (whethertrue or not ) it was the version (CS3?) that just had a mind of its own
Anyway point is: if it risks making LR run badly or slowly then forget it, not worth the hassle
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royal_scanlon
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84 Points
9 years ago
I can't remember if you said i, or another, but i concur, "Adobe is shooting itself in the foot" insofar as photographers using Lightroom as their DAM when Lightroom can't even access many of the images (or parts of images) used in their work. It just doesn't make sense out here in the real world.
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philip_tobias
68 Messages
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2.5K Points
9 years ago
Now let's encourage everyone to VOTE for this feature request.
Regards. ...pt
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peter_frandsen
4 Messages
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114 Points
9 years ago
- w my extra suggestion for e prefs panel to choose which format to support.
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philip_tobias
68 Messages
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2.5K Points
9 years ago
Yes, a preference panel that allows each person to specify which files types to support, would be a nice refinement.
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