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P: Please Provide Support for the WebP Image format

  • July 4, 2013
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Dear Photoshop Team (as well as the Illustrator and Edge Tools Team):

The format improves upon .jpeg and .png use cases today while at the same time providing 2x-3x smaller file sizes at the same, comparable quality settings.

According to the image specificaitons, "WebP supports lossless transparency (also known as alpha channel) with just 22% additional bytes. Transparency is also supported with lossy compression and typically provides 3x smaller file sizes compared to PNG when lossy compression is acceptable for the red/green/blue color channels" (https://developers.google.com/speed/w...).

Being able to used on the latest Android devices an the latest versions of Chrome and Opera (I know they both use Blink, and thus it isn't a surprise that both support it already), according to caniuse.com, it is sort of reasonable to consider I think.

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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    May 6, 2020
    This Plugin seems to do the job:

    ENVIRONMENT
    OSX 10.15.04, Photoshop 21.1.0 (2020)

    WEBP PLUGIN 
    https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webpshop
    https://github.com/webmproject/WebPShop

    INSTALLATION GUIDE
    tells you how to remove OSX Quarantine amongst other things (written in German)
    https://www.ifun.de/macos-catalina-plugin-oeffnet-webp-dateien-in-photoshop-148521/

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    DrSchoen
    Participating Frequently
    May 6, 2020
    none of the plugins works with Photoshop CC 2020
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    AndyWizz
    Inspiring
    April 27, 2020
    The PlugIn works but there is still no support for generator and export as which is really annoying
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    FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor
    Inspiring
    April 4, 2020
    External plugins didn't work for me. Photoshop crash when I try to convert an image in webp. I use PS for business. 
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    JonasRogneCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 22, 2020
    We hit 7 now? Yay! Another anniversary!

    I bet Adobe will add some sort of improved html/css export abilities before we get something useful like opening all common web image formats... 😉
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    sérgioa34671784
    Participant
    January 22, 2020
    This Internet is littered with WebP images now. Not being able to open them using Photosop it's not just improductive but ridiculous. Why isn't Adobe solving this? The original request was made 7 (seven) years ago. 
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    Community Expert
    JonasRogneCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 14, 2020
    Adobe: https://www.xkcd.com/2254/
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    Lumigraphics
    Legend
    January 10, 2020
    Its useless for anyone on Apple products- Apple is going with HEIF which is technically superior to WebP. Photoshop doesn't support that, either.
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    Lumigraphics
    Legend
    January 10, 2020
    Its useless for anyone on Apple products- Apple is going with HEIF which is technically superior to WebP. Photoshop doesn't support that, either.
    ProDesignTools
    Community Expert
    ProDesignToolsCommunity Expert
    Community Expert
    January 10, 2020
    Hey Geoff. what may be missing is the relative popularity of the request. Even though this idea/suggestion has been posted for almost 6 years, it currently has only 38 followers and 50 "me toos."

    So definitely for some users, it would be good and important if Photoshop natively supported WebP rather than needing to use a third-party plugin, but there does not yet appear to be a huge number of people asking for it. 

    Obviously with every new release, the PS engineers have to juggle and decide which new features to work on and which to defer, while also trading off total program code size and overall performance, etc.

    So adding native support for WebP may well be in the cards down the road, as WebP picks up steam and this request picks up critical mass.
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