P: Camera Raw/Lightroom Classic/Lightroom Ecosystem: Support for WebP

Nice that you can handle WebP-files now in LrC, but why is an export-option for WebP not included in this release?

Greetings all, 

Updates for Adobe Photography products are released.  The February update has an update regarding this feature request.  WebP is now supported for Import, Render, and Syncing.

If you do not see the update in your Creative Cloud Application, you can refresh it by hitting [Ctrl/Cmd]+[Alt/Opt]+[ R ].

Note: It may take up to 24 hours for your update to be available in your Creative Cloud app.

Thank you for being so patient.

webp cam out three years after Lightroom - a full 15 years ago. I can import avif, which has probably 5% of the market usage as webp, but not webp, an enormously popular and widely used standard. Adobe is just vaccuming up our money but they seem to be utterly incompetent and uncaring. Lightroom has been out for 18 years and they still have never addressed even the most basic usability issues. We still have nine slots for keyword sets, when making it user configurable would dramatically improve keywording efficiency.  Why not 15 slots, or 25, or 50. I have 1,400 keywords in my main catalog. Nine??? But we have all the latest AI wrinkle cream. Thank God for that.

@Rikk Flohr: Photography the reason I'm asking you is because I saw you made a pinned reply here stating that "At this time, HEIC exports remain not planned", and I hoped you could give us a similar comment (one way or the other) regarding webp support. Why were you able to comment on HEIC there, but not on webp here? 🙂

Adobe does not comment on future features or potential features. 

@Rikk Flohr: Photography is there any chance you could kindly weigh in on this thread and let us know if Adobe has any plan to support exporting to webp in Lightroom, given that (1) webp is already supported in Photoshop and (2) webp now has complete browser support, even broader than AVIF which is already supported by Lightroom? Thanks!

@Rob_Cullen 

Thanks Rob, this utility worked very well.

Best Wishes,

Dave

@Nite-Stian: "I really miss the options to export as PNG and WEBP directly from Lr."

LR Classic Export does support PNG, though not WebP.

"I want to easily be able to batch export from the app I am working in."

See here for how to do batch exports from LR to WebP:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-ideas/p-camera-raw-lightroom-classic-lightroom-ecosystem-support-for-webp/idc-p/13119120/page/2#M16042

Having it built-in to LR would make the exports go faster, of course.

Google isn't penalising sites simply for having JPGs - rather, Google recommends sites *also* use webp images too.

Other formats like AVIF, JPEG-XL, or HEIC don't have nearly the same level of browser support that webp has. Literally every major browser supports webp, which is not the case for those other formats: https://caniuse.com/webp