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

@Ambrosial_style1587, see these previous posts in this thread:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-ideas/p-camera-raw-lightroom-classic-lightroom-ecosystem-support-for-webp/idc-p/12304363#M3918

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-ideas/p-camera-raw-lightroom-classic-lightroom-ecosystem-support-for-webp/idc-p/13332354#M5621

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-ideas/p-camera-raw-lightroom-classic-lightroom-ecosystem-support-for-webp/idc-p/13119120#M5613

https://community.adobe.com/t5/camera-raw-ideas/p-camera-raw-lightroom-classic-lightroom-ecosystem-support-for-webp/idc-p/13913135#M5629

He didn't say anything about importing WebP images. He wants to export some images in WebP format.

How did you get webp into LRC in the first place?  I have been trying to import .webp for years.  My inability to do so is the main reason I want to dump Adobe forever.

@johnrellis suggested in a post that it might be possible to add the Google Convert code somehow as a Post Processing option in Lightroom.

I would like to get the highest resolution, and best quality but produce very small sized WebP images to be used on a website.

I would like the photos to be sized 1200 x 900 with a DPI of 72, and quality of 80%.

I use a Windows 10 desktop.

The procedure I plan to use is

• Within Lightroom, use the Develop module
  • to adjust all the parameters such as exposure, colour etc.
  • crop to aspect 1200 x 900
  • export as TIFF and select
  • Image Sizing – 1200 x 900 pixels, Resolution 72 DPI
    • Output sharpening un-ticked

There is a Post Processing option in this Lightroom Export screen

@johnrellis suggested in a post that it might be possible to add the Google Convert code somehow as a Post Processing option in Lightroom.

Has anybody ever done this… or could explain the steps needed to set this up?

How can I export a photo as WebP from Lightroom Classic?

I have a few hundred photos I need to export as WebP.

I don't want to have to export them as jpg, and then open each one in Photoshop in order to save them as WebP.

Could someone let me know the steps to do this please?

Thanks in advance,

Dave

There's an apple in with them oranges. HEIC may have some compression, but it's basically huge (and it's the default on an iOS device, making for nice fat cloud accounts using lots of electricity, ahem). Among the compressed formats, WebP seems to be the best right now, and is widely adopted, so it would make sense for image-organizing software to support it.

This is not an ideal solution and may I join the chorus of people calling for Adobe to catch up with our needs?  If you have a WordPress website there are plugins that you can use that will automatically convert to webp. I have it running on my website: here is my corporate photography page with quite a few images, if you open on of the images and try to save it you will see that they are webp however I uploaded only jpg.   

'Adobe', there are so many alternatives coming to market now, you guys need to be on the front foot 😉 

What am I missing?  Does not Adobe Systems claim to be the world leader in digital image processing software?  Apparently, without using a lame plug-in like "anyfile", I have to go through all kinds of gyrations to import a very large percentage of photos in the known universe.

If this is true, everyone ever involved with Adobe Lightroom Classic needs to be fired.  Immediately.

Also, LRC absolutely SUCKS for video.  I want to dump Adobe LRC very much.

Thank you for the endless hours of extra work and frustration.  Please send me a product survey.

Part of the problem is that numerous formats have been put forward to replace JPEG, including PNG, WebP, JPEG XL, JPEG 2000, HIEC, and AVIF. Each has its merits but its still a horse race. WebP has been pushed by Google and HEIC is now the default image format for iOS so you have competing commercial interests. Compatability is all over the place, and while some devices (desktop computers, cell phones) can be easily updated, many others cannot.

I suspect that HEIC and AVIF will be the formats to win out but who knows.

Hi, I'm interested to know the benefits of webp?   Is the picture quality any better than jpeg and why use it, I'm keen to know?  I found this converter https://cloudconvert.com/jpg-to-webp if that helps at all.

The main benefit is that webp images have a significantly smaller file size compared to JPGs with the same compression and image quality. As a result, websites that use webp images load much faster in the browser.

There are literally dozens, if not hundreds, of existing JPG-to-WEBP converters available on the internet, as well as in virtually all other leading image editing applications - including Photoshop itself. This forum thread doesn't exist because we're lacking the ability to convert images to webp - rather, it exists because we specifically need and want Lightroom itself to "catch up with the times" and support exporting images to webp natively.

Saving an image first to JPG, and then converting it to webp as a second step - eg. using an online converter - results in two instances of lossy compression, which degrades the image quality. It's always better to export natively to the target image format, directly from the source.