Mike_B
New Member
- Joined
- Jul 14, 2019
- Messages
- 2
- Lightroom Experience
- Beginner
- Lightroom Version
- 6.x
- Lightroom Version Number
- Lightroom version: 6.14
- Operating System
- Windows 7
Can anyone verify if it's possible to work with iPhone HEIC format images in Lightroom Classic (8.x) in a Windows 7 environment?
From what I have put together HEIC support was introduced by Microsoft in Windows 10, however it looks like you can install the codec in Windows 7 with CopyTrans HEIC for Windows, or perhaps the current version of Lightroom Classic (8.3), which is stated as Windows 7 compatible, comes with the necessary codecs?
Thanks for any thoughts/insight on this.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Longer version of question
I'm currently running Lightroom 6.14 on a Windows 7 PC. I recently noticed that photos I have been taking on my iPhone are HEIC. Normally I upload photos directly from my iPhone to my PC and was oblivious to the HEIC -> JPG conversion happening on import. It wasn't until today when I decided to use Image Capture on my Mac that I noticed the original image format was HEIC (I guess I must have been living in a cave and never heard the news about Apple's transition to HEIC).
Doing a bit of reading on HEIC it seems a pity to lose the color depth, file size efficiency, LivePhoto support, and perhaps some improvements in overall image quality with the conversion to JPG. I don't mind going from paying nothing (using LR 6.14) to $10/month and upgrading to LR Classic 8.3 to get HEIC support, but if it also necessitates a mandatory upgrade to Windows 10 to get HEIC support, that's a lot of legwork, and something I'd like to know up front. Also, feel free to poke holes in my belief that there's benefit in working with HEIC format images in Lightroom over JPGs.
From what I have put together HEIC support was introduced by Microsoft in Windows 10, however it looks like you can install the codec in Windows 7 with CopyTrans HEIC for Windows, or perhaps the current version of Lightroom Classic (8.3), which is stated as Windows 7 compatible, comes with the necessary codecs?
Thanks for any thoughts/insight on this.
--------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------
Longer version of question
I'm currently running Lightroom 6.14 on a Windows 7 PC. I recently noticed that photos I have been taking on my iPhone are HEIC. Normally I upload photos directly from my iPhone to my PC and was oblivious to the HEIC -> JPG conversion happening on import. It wasn't until today when I decided to use Image Capture on my Mac that I noticed the original image format was HEIC (I guess I must have been living in a cave and never heard the news about Apple's transition to HEIC).
Doing a bit of reading on HEIC it seems a pity to lose the color depth, file size efficiency, LivePhoto support, and perhaps some improvements in overall image quality with the conversion to JPG. I don't mind going from paying nothing (using LR 6.14) to $10/month and upgrading to LR Classic 8.3 to get HEIC support, but if it also necessitates a mandatory upgrade to Windows 10 to get HEIC support, that's a lot of legwork, and something I'd like to know up front. Also, feel free to poke holes in my belief that there's benefit in working with HEIC format images in Lightroom over JPGs.