P: Please Provide Support for the WebP Image format

Forum|Forum|12 years ago
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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LittleGeoffy

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Is there something I'm missing here? Is there a competitive reason that WebP isn't supported? People have been asking for years, so any product manager who cared about what the customers wanted would have done it by now.

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rene_schmidt_6ouboq4vp4n2f

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Lol. Look how far back this request goes - like almost 6 years. They don’t effing care. Scroll up... and up... and up.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Photoshop needs WebP natively. Please make this happen. We are about to redo all of our pages with WebP graphics. I hate having to download a 3rd party converter.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Please include support for webP natively

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LittleGeoffy

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It's madness that we don't have this support yet. PhotoShop should be a complete tool kit for image editing but as long as it doesn't support popular formats something is missing. Can someone from Adobe explain why it's not in the product? Is there some competitive reason why Adobe doesn't want to encourage use of this format? It's extremely frustrating. GIMP, the free competitor, supports WebP. Perhaps we should all switch to that?

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JonasDSS

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We've been asking for this obvious feature for ~6 years. Even Adobe FrameMaker supports WebP but still not Adobes own raster image editor...

Don't hold your breath. It seems that as long as some 3rd party is willing to develop a plugin, Adobe won't bother to add native support.

LiviuOlos

Participant

Dear Adobe, Photoshop still doesn't have Export for modern Web - WEBP, JPEG 2000, etc.
JPEG 2000 is available at Save As, I don't get why is messing in Export.
If you look here https://community.adobe.com/t5/Photoshop/Converting-images-to-WEBP-in-photoshop-cc/td-p/10281336#sa_src=web-messaging you had 24600 views for just one post about this, meaning that a lot of people are looking.

I think a voting system should be implemented so you can drive new features by the number of people that ask for them. Please add a voting system.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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Get online..look around. Listen to the people who pay your salaries. Support WebP. You have absolutely no reason not to.
If it's in a "Future Release" you've already taken too long and are behind the game. Very disappointing.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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As of now, in addition to Chrome supporting WebP, it is also supported by Edge, Firefox, and Opera: https://caniuse.com/#feat=webp

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

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