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

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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@JeffreyTranberry curious what happened to that idea/feature request you opened 5 years ago

WebP exists since 2010 and has an industry-standard for pictures on the web. Yet Adobe doesn't seem to bother. I cannot export them neither in LR nor PS. Yes, there are plugins for PS, but I do my bulk-exports for eventphotos in LR and have no need for PS for sports pictures (for example).

Programs like ACDSee support the webp-format, I still need to convert them after exporting. Pls Adobe implement that format in LR so I don't have to convert hundreds of pictures every time I exported them from LR.

The continued lack of official WEBP support in Lightroom is unacceptable

WEBP is highly efficient, delivering smaller filesizes for better quality than JPEG, all modern browsers support WEBP (including Safari) and as a result it's rapidly becoming the standard format for images on the web, replacing both JPEG and PNG.

Open source code for encoding and decoding of WEBP is easily found at https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/download

So there's no excuse really...

Adobe please give us the native tools we need to create content for the modern web!

@martijn_saly_5922019 DNG is also open-source, but none of the major camera companies uses DNG. Do you use DNG? None of the major camera companies uses WebP either.

Better != successful.

@allen_stewart DNG is also open-source, but none of the major camera companies uses DNG. None of the major camera companies uses WebP either.

Better != successful.