Amazon Photos and HEIC and Live Capture

Tech Talk Photography
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I’m moving all of my photos (from a variety of devices) to Amazon Photos now that I’ve signed up for a Prime membership. I’m not too knowledgeable about photo editing and sharing yet so this will start off as a place to back up all my photos. (I do have a Mylio subscription but I haven’t done a deep dive into it yet I don’t know if I’ll keep it yet).

  1. In my iPhone camera settings, should I change the format settings from High Efficiency to Most Compatible? Should I enable ProRAW?
  2. Should I disable live capture?

Thanks

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Amazon has a help doc with the info you’re looking for - File Requirements for Amazon Photos - Amazon Customer Service

Looks like HEIF, iOS Live Photos and ProRaw are supported so you should be able to keep those enabled.

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Great list, thanks. I wonder why iOS Live Photos but not Google motion photos are not supported?
Anyway, do you know if most photo editors like Gimp or Adobe can work with iOS live and HEIC photos natively? Or will I have to end up converting those into another format before I start editing them?

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No, most editors don’t take kindly to HEIC, you’ll probably need to convert at some point.