The image format used by iPhones has a lot of advantages but more than a year since its adoption, it’s still not fully supported. AppleInsider examines the problems you can face editing HEIC images and what you can do about it.
When you need to feel justified in spending all this money on a new iPhone XS or iPhone XS Max, you can just take a photograph and relish how good it looks. Only, if you then want to use that photograph somewhere else, you can end up with a shot that has visible faults in it —faults where you can see clear discoloration or even visible digital artefacts in the image.
You can be quite far down your production workflow when you see this. If you don’t know what’s caused it or if you don’t have access to the original image, you will at best lose time and at worse have effectively lost an image.
That’s because by default iPhones now shoot in HEIC format and while that’s hopefully an excellent thing that we’ll all come to love, it’s taking a long time to get there.
Apple first supported HEIF in macOS High Sierra and iOS 11 more than a year ago. While Adobe Photoshop added HEIC support last October, Lightroom didn’t get it until this June. Pixelmator Pro officially supported it from the launch of macOS High Sierra.
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