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Last update: May 12, 2026

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Assets Essentials supports a wide range of file formats and each functionality has varied support for different file types.

  • image file type icon Images: JPG, PNG, GIF, TIFF, and others
  • creative cloudtype icon Creative Cloud files: PSD, PSB, AI, and INDD
  • camera type icon Camera RAW files: CR2/CR3, NEF, SRW/SRF, and others
  • document file type icon Documents: DOCX, PDF, PPTX, and XLSX
  • video file type icon Videos: MP4

Assets Essentials supports any binary file format with basic services, such as, storage, upload, copy, move, delete, and adding metadata.

Assets Essentials also supports camera RAW files from a wide range of leading camera manufacturers including Canon (CR2/CR3), Nikon (NEF), Sony (SRW/SRF), Fujifilm (RAF), Olympus (ORF), and others, powered by Adobe Camera Raw.

The various file types have different degrees of support for the use cases and features, as described below. Use the legend to understand the support level.

Support Level
Description
✓
Supported
✓ ‡
Supported conditionally
−
Not applicable

Add, upload, and view assets support-to-upload-view

Asset type
Browse
Copy
Upload
Create
Delete
Details
Image zoom
Recently Viewed
Raster images
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
✓
RAW files
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
✓
Folders
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
−
−
MP4 videos
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓ ‡
−
✓
PDF
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
−
✓
PSD, AI, PSB, and INDD
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓ ‡
−
✓
Other binary files
✓
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
−
✓

Search, use, and edit assets support-to-search-use-edit

Asset type
Download
Drag and drop
Image editor
Search
Smart Tags
Rename
Versions
Raster images
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
RAW files
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
✓
Folders
✓
✓
−
✓
−
✓
✓
Videos
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
✓
CC Libraries
−
−
−
−
−
✓
✓
PDF
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
✓
PSD and PSB
✓
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
✓
AI and INDD
✓
✓
−
✓
−
✓
✓
Other binary files
✓
✓
−
✓
−
✓
✓

Review assets and collaborate support-to-review-collaborate

Asset type
Annotate
Comment
Create tasks and review
Raster images
✓
✓
✓
RAW files
✓
✓
✓
Folders
−
−
−
Videos
−
✓
✓
CC Libraries
−
−
−
PDF
−
✓
✓
PSD, PSB, AI, and INDD
−
✓
✓
Other binary files
−
✓
✓
DOC
−
✓
✓
DOCX
−
✓
✓
PPT
−
✓
✓
PPTX
−
✓
✓
XLS
−
✓
✓
XLSX
−
✓
✓
TXT
−
✓
✓
RTF
−
✓
✓

Other asset management tasks support-to-manage-assets

Asset type
Metadata
Renditions
Trash
Copy
Move
Raster images
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
RAW files
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Folders
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
Videos
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
CC Libraries
✓
−
−
−
−
PDF
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
AI and INDD
✓
−
✓
✓
✓
PSD and PSB
✓
✓
✓
✓
✓
Other binary files
✓
−
✓
✓
✓

Users of Adobe Asset Link can upload and check-in (upload a new version) files into the Assets Essentials repository from the supported Adobe Creative Cloud desktop applications.

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