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

What a strange reaction. 😮 We process hundreds of photos for online web every day. The Webp format has a third smaller capacity than JPG, it is the standard, it speeds up the loading of pages and thus better placement of positions in Google. Tiff is completely out for online web output. I expected LR to be primarily a production tool and not a toy for creative photographers. It's sad that today I have to use a competing tool in addition to LR only for WEBP export.

Please make this as easy as selecting JPEG or TIFF on export!!!  🙂 

Thanks much!

@J453   In reply to your message 12 Jan 2017.

It is 2023 now. More than 6 years later. When can we expect Lr full WebP support?

I hope Lightroom has an exporting feature for WEBP format. It is required for most of us

why so complicated? webp is almost standard for my work

WebP is an 8-bit format, so can it really have a wide colour gamut?  If you really want wider colour gamut, perhaps you should look at HEIF/HEIC or AVIF.  HEIC images are also half the size of JPEG with better quality and more features.

Lossy WebP compression has arguably worse picture quality than JPEG, depending on your image type.

I don't wanna install a bunch of other applications (and I meant "have to convert them" automatic or not - it still needs a step outside of LR). 

And yes... I know, some browser still have issues with WebP. I still hope they come around and support a format that has a wider color spectrum and saves a nice bit of the file sizes at the same time.

I'd rather have HEIC support. Can open but not save on Big Sur, hello Adobe?

@SensationElle Scroll up, there is an automatable solution above.  

I've got computers and devices that can not show webp images, but thankfully the format isn't that prevalent even if you think it "has an industry standard".  Not to say it's not used in your niche though.

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