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

I have a Shopify e-commerce website where customers upload their photos.  I then save them on my Mac and import them into LR.  Recently, Shopify started converting all those files to webp.  Now, even though I use LR, the premier, industry-standard, I cannot open my customer's photos.  Webp is open source and has been around for many years so it doesn't make sense that Adobe hasn't added webp support.  I had to buy a converter app to continue my business because Adobe has let me down.

Don't export to JPEG if you're going to process them again. Intermediate files should always be lossless, so PNG, TIFF (with encoding that isn't JPEG), or DNG will do.

Agree -- this thread started 2 years ago and WebP is gaining ground. I'd appreciate Adobe helping it (me) out. 

This definitely should be adopted by now and much easier to manage WebP format.

By the end of the year every major web browser will be supporting (or have plans for supporting) the WebP format. The format is completely open source, so I am not sure why Photoshop is so far behind the curve on this. Please add native support in Photoshop.  The plugin is a crude work-around for what should be built-in to PS. 

Converted to an idea/feature request.

Looks like WebP is gaining some traction. It is available under the same sort of license as, say, DNG.

I see there is a Ps plugin for the format. Might be nice to make this one of the target export file types in Lightroom.

While it isn't a typical camera format, it attempts to solve the problems that JPEG was intended to address. Nicer photographic images at smaller sizes has been a long time coming.

For now I'm going to experiment with a post-export action to generate WebP images from JPEGs (or TIFFs).

Thanks, but the Run Any Command plugin is actually by Friedl 😆

Awesome idea for Mac John. As a user of your plugin-ins they're always top notch products.

For Windows, that should probably work fine, since you can run command-line utilities as Export post-processing actions. However, on Mac, I think you'd need to use the Run Any Command plugin to invoke the conversion utility, since you can't directly use a command-line program as an Export post-processing action on Mac.