If you're on Windows you'll need to install a codec: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/file-formats.html#HEIFHEIC
Here's the Wikipedia page if you want more info about the format. It's not an Apple-only thing (but it is now their default image format), but support is growing. Compared to JPEG it can reduce file size by about 50% for equivalent image quality. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/High_Efficiency_Image_File_Format Cheers, Dave > On Feb 11, 2021, at 7:43 AM, Paul Stenquist <pnstenqu...@mac.com> wrote: > > I think it’s Apple’s version of RAW. PhotoShop (the latest cloud version) > opened them. Not in ARC but in PhotoShop. I was then able to work on them but > didn’t do much. The out of camera rendering was quite good. > > Paul > >> On Feb 10, 2021, at 11:59 AM, Daniel J. Matyola <danmaty...@gmail.com> wrote: >> >> Paul: >> >> I am jst starting to explore the photo abilities of my iPhone 12 Pro Max. >> >> Some of mu images come out at .heic files. While I edit most of my iPhone >> images on the phone, when I tried to edit some of the .heic images on >> PhotoShop, it would not load them. What is an .heic file, and how do you >> process them? >> >> Dan Matyola >> *https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery >> <https://tinyurl.com/DJM-Pentax-Gallery>* >> >> >>>> On 2/9/2021 15:54:15, Paul Stenquist wrote: >>>> Yep, it’s a bad pic of my wife sleeping, but how it was taken is >>> interesting. It was shot in almost total darkness in the middle of the >>> night with an iPhone 12 Max Pro in night mode. The Raw Image is 4032 x 3024 >>> pixels. The stop is f1.6. The exif data says 1/5 second but it took several >>> seconds to record the image. I have to investigate how that works. It’s >>> cropped just a bit to straighten the frame. It was so dark I couldn’t >>> really see her, but held the camera over her head. As I held it there, the >>> frame grew brighter but did not illuminate her in any way. It’s not >>> flattering, although I think my wife always looks great. Whatever light the >>> camera found cast some unfortunate shadows, but I will be playing with this >>> phone again soon. BTW, my last phone, an iPhone 7 plus was over 4 years >>> old and wouldn’t hold a charge for more than four or five hours. So I >>> treated myself to a new one. I had heard so much about the 12 pro max >>> camera that I had to have one. >>>> >>>> https://www.photo.net/photo/18643308/Good-Night >>>> -- >>>> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >>>> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >>>> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >>> follow the directions. >>> >>> >> -- >> %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List >> To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net >> to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and >> follow the directions. > -- > %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List > To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net > to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow > the directions. -- %(real_name)s Pentax-Discuss Mail List To unsubscribe send an email to pdml-le...@pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
