Adobe pipelines already know TIFF. They do not all know HEIC.
Photographers and designers need a raster that survives mixed OS teams. This spoke is that bridge into Photoshop, Lightroom, Illustrator, and InDesign. TIFF is editing-ready in the sense of a proper placed or opened image — not a layered PSD clone of Photos. You still retouch in the app. Local conversion for unreleased campaigns. If a Windows intern cannot install HEIF extensions because IT locked the Store, they can still produce a TIFF in Chrome and drop it on the shared drive. That is the unblocking job. Color management, masks, and frequency separation remain Photoshop’s problem, correctly. Hub is general. Print after edit is the printing spoke. Phone-capture narrative is the iPhone spoke. Web mockups can be WebP; soft comps JPEG; alpha plates PNG. Scanning workflow habits apply: treat the phone still like another plate. Convert, then catalog. Do not drag HEIC into a Lightroom catalog on Windows and hope the next update magically fixes import.