Browser save-as-type to the rescue.
Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-converter/
Chrome too, but find it yourself if you are still using that.
Tl;Dr: PNG but better.
No.
It losslessly compressed ~150GB of my PNGs to ~75GB, so I'd say it's definitely better space-wise.
It's absolutely not loseless at any kind of quality past web content
The WebP format supports fully lossless compression in addition to lossy compression. I used the lossless mode for my images.
Webp is actually a decent format, it's just that a certain desktop OS used by roughly 70% of people chooses to not support it
many android applications including Facebook messenger don't support it either
Lemmy.world's android app doesn't fully support it. I frequently get broken link image and never get animation. I know it can work because the same posts work in the Thundarr Lemmy app.
I really like WEBP.
It supports transparency, animations, and compression, and seems to look really good even with very strong compression. It's a shame that, despite it coming out 13 years ago, it's still barely supported by so much software.
Sounds to me like people need to stop supporting software that doesn't take the time to update. WEBP is great, and I haven't run into a single program that doesn't support it, personally.
99% of the images I save are used as a desktop background at work for a day or two.
.webp doesn't work as a windows desktop background.....
I end up just screenshoting and cropping.
.webp is great until you need to use anything that wasn't built with it in mind. Lots of stuff just never bothered adding support.
There is an easy fix though. Just open the image in Gimp and then export it as a jpeg or PNG.
Spending up to a minute or more opening a huge-ass program to just convert one single image doesn't seem exactly elegant to me. Maybe it's easy but it's also a bit of a pain.
convert image.webp image.png in your terminal should do the trick, if you're on Linux
ITT: people running win7
Where's the problem?
Webp images can be a pain in the ass to work with because many programs don't support them.
Is this a Windows thing I'm too Linux to understand?
Which programs don't support webp exactly?
In my case, Illustrator and XD, which I use a lot. One of the best features of XD is the ability to drag and drop images into placeholders but I can't do that with webp. In Illustrator, importing a webp file crashes the app.
You know when you were a kid and the was a toy in a clamshell of plastic that was super hard to tear?
It's a bit like that, but with less chance of slicing your thumb open
I like it in concept, but not in practice. Way too many programs inexplicably can't read it and it's annoying as shit.
Every webp image I've wanted to save I just renamed the extension to png and it works fine.
Renaming an extension does not actually modify the contents of the file. Some software that supports webp may look at the contents and recognize it as webp and load it. But that’s not all software.
It’s a bad practice to do that. It’s like changing a .docx to .pdf and expecting it to be fine.
This doesn't always work unfortunately.
Web pee
It annoys me that Firefox won't autoplay animated webp, at least ones in Lemmy posts, unless I open a whole new tab just for the fucking .webp
I disabled webp in firefox and still had to get a secondary image converter extension to get around this format, I wish I could opt out forever.
Legitimately amazing compression for gifs, but isn't supported for shit outside of the browser it comes in, be it editing images or upload to older online galleries. Good luck to anyone who just renames the file format to png/jpeg, now you have no idea what's actually the correct format when you need it... I used to think that was a good idea, until I faced programs that would not run 'renamed' formats whatsoever.
What were you thinking with the whole extension renaming ruse?!
But anyway, I've done that too.
I think it's a matter of time. MP3s were not support by many tools when it first came out.
A pain in the ass. Up next is jpegXL. If it’s backwards compatible with jpeg, great. If it’s not, then it can fuck off too.
Still will require apps to be compatible with it, otherwise we are looking another case of webp problems
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