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Progress docs per craftrules standards/progress-docs.md: target-app parity, gaps, roadmap with alpha gate, readiness by audience (full / mainstream / essentials) with Opus 5.5 hours, model-by-model RAW coverage against Adobe's camera list (docs/raw/), and format, hardware, UI and localization parity docs. Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 5.5 <[email protected]>
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File format parity
Last reviewed: 2026-10-10 · Last updated: 2026-10-10 · Change: major (created; formats measured from the code and the target's Info.plist) · Target: Adobe Lightroom Classic 15.5 / Lightroom 9.6
Every format Lightroom reads or writes, with our support, fidelity and tests. Camera raw formats are deep enough to have their own document: raw-parity.md.
How measured: the target's document types come from the installed Lightroom 9.6
Info.plist (CFBundleDocumentTypes: catalog mcat, xmp, toolkit / module / library bundles, and
the raw-and-image list: jpg, tif, dng, heic and 27 raw extensions) plus Lightroom Classic's documented
import and export formats. Ours come from crates/codecs/src/sniff.rs, crates/codecs/src/encode.rs,
crates/engine/src/export.rs, crates/engine/src/import.rs and the tests named below.
Images (non-raw)
| Format | Target reads | Target writes | LightCraft reads | LightCraft writes | Notes / tests |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| JPEG | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (parallel decoder, ICC, EXIF orientation) | ✅ quality, size limit, ICC, metadata | crates/codecs/src/jpeg.rs, export tests |
| TIFF | ✅ 8/16/32-bit | ✅ 8/16-bit, LZW/ZIP | ✅ 1–64-bit integer, 16–64-bit float, bilevel, CCITT fax, WhiteIsZero | ✅ 8/16-bit, 32-bit float linear, none / LZW / ZIP | crates/tiff, crates/codecs/src/tiff_codec.rs |
| PNG | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ | |
| PSD / PSB | ✅ (maximized-compatibility composite) | ✅ (Classic: PSD export, edit-in round trip) | ✅ merged composite | ⬜ (external-editor round trip writes 16-bit TIFF) | crates/codecs/src/psd.rs |
| HEIC / HEIF | ✅ | ⬜ (Classic) / HDR only | ✅ in every release build (crates/heif, heic-rs) |
⬜ | heif feature on by packaging scripts |
| AVIF | ✅ | ✅ (HDR) | ⬜ recognised, not decoded (no permissive pure-Rust AV1 decoder) | ✅ 8/10-bit, PQ HDR | |
| JPEG XL | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (jxl-oxide) incl. DNG 1.7 JXL tiles |
⬜ | |
| WebP | not in its document types | ⬜ | ✅ | ✅ | beyond target |
| GIF, BMP | ⬜ | ⬜ | ✅ | ⬜ | beyond target |
| DNG (from raw) | ✅ | ✅ incl. lossy, embedded original | ✅ | ✅ uncompressed or LJ92; ⬜ lossy DNG, embedded original | crates/raw/src/dngwrite.rs |
| Render to DNG (15.5) | — | ✅ | — | ⬜ | new in Classic 15.5 |
| Original + sidecar | — | ✅ | — | ✅ | |
| HDR gain map JPEG (ISO 21496-1) | ✅ | ✅ | ✅ (gain map read) | ✅ | crates/codecs/src/gainmap.rs |
| PQ / HLG HDR | ✅ | ✅ AVIF, JXL, TIFF | — | 🟡 PQ AVIF, float TIFF; no HLG | |
| Contact sheet / print PDF | — | ✅ (Print module: PDF / JPEG / printer) | — | 🟡 paginated contact-sheet PDF (A4 / Letter, 150 dpi, sRGB) | crates/engine/src/contact_sheet.rs |
| Video (MP4, MOV, AVCHD…) | ✅ playback, trim, edit | ✅ export | 🟡 catalogued (kind, duration) | ⬜ | see video gap |
Colour spaces and profiles
| Feature | Target | LightCraft |
|---|---|---|
| Export colour spaces | sRGB, Adobe RGB, Display P3, ProPhoto, Rec.2020, custom ICC | ✅ sRGB, Display P3, Adobe RGB-compatible, ProPhoto, Rec.2020 with gamut mapping (CPU and GPU), embedded ICC; ⬜ custom ICC output profiles; AVIF stays sRGB |
| Input ICC (JPEG / TIFF / PNG) | ✅ | ✅ matrix / TRC and LUT profiles (moxcms) |
| Soft proofing with printer profiles | ✅ | 🟡 |
Metadata, sidecars, presets and catalogs
| Format | Target | LightCraft | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
XMP sidecars (crs: develop settings, ratings, keywords, regions) |
read / write | ✅ read / write, manual (⌘S) and automatic | xmp-interop.md |
| EXIF / IPTC / XMP embedded on export | ✅ | ✅ with metadata filters | crates/meta |
Develop presets .xmp |
✅ | ✅ import (mapping of supported settings) | |
Legacy presets .lrtemplate |
✅ (converted) | ✅ import | |
Camera / creative profiles (.dcp, .xmp profiles) |
✅ | ⬜ deliberately (Adobe profile formats are never used); .cube LUT profiles ✅ |
|
Lens profiles .lcp |
✅ | ⬜ deliberately | |
| Other apps' presets | — | ✅ Luminar .lmp / .mplumpack, .zip bundles |
beyond target |
Lightroom Classic catalog .lrcat |
native | 🟡 import (ratings, flags, labels, keywords, collections, virtual copies, supported develop settings; read-only pure-Rust SQLite incl. WAL) | lightroom-catalog-import.md |
Lightroom (cloud) library .lrlibrary |
native | ⬜ | cloud library format, local cache only |
Write back to .lrcat |
native | ⬜ (one-way migration by design) | |
| Keyword lists (text) | import / export | ✅ | |
| GPX track logs | ✅ | ✅ | crates/meta/src/gpx.rs |
| Export presets, metadata presets, filename templates | ✅ (.lrtemplate) |
✅ own JSON | not interchangeable |
Lightroom plug-ins (.lrplugin, .lrdevplugin) |
✅ | ⬜ | see ecosystem in target-app-parity.md |
Scores
| Part | Weight | Ready for real work | Kind |
|---|---|---|---|
| Standard image import / export | 35% | ~85% | estimated (table above; missing: AVIF read, JXL / PSD write, lossy DNG) |
| Sidecars, metadata, presets | 25% | ~85% | estimated |
| Lightroom catalog migration | 25% | ~50% | estimated (one-way, approximate rendering of unsupported settings) |
| HDR, print, video output | 15% | ~35% | estimated |
| Non-raw file formats | 100% | ~70% | estimated; raw is in raw-parity.md (~50%) |
Remaining: 30–55 h (AVIF decode 8–15 h if a permissive decoder is written or found; JXL encode 4–8 h; PSD write 4–8 h; lossy DNG and Render to DNG 4–8 h; HLG 3–5 h; catalog import depth 8–12 h).
Revision history
| Date | Change | Summary |
|---|---|---|
| 2026-10-10 | major | Created from the code and the installed Lightroom's document types |