P: Please Provide Support for the WebP Image format

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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

So Google have just updated their pagespeed insights tool and next gen images are a big part of it.
Is Adobe going to get on-board?

ZGuidry

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The current WebP plugin does not support transparency. We need a full-featured export feature built into Photoshop.

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rene_schmidt_6ouboq4vp4n2f

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Um, because they really don't give a crap?

Yes, sour grapes. I've watched bug reports like this get glossed over for years, only to have Adobe reps (repeatedly) say in forums like this that we users are too dumb to understand the complexities of programming etc etc. and how hard it is boo hoo. OK, fine.

But hey, let's look on the bright side: Adobe is making record profits ($5.85 billion in 2016), so who cares if the program does what the users need, right?

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LittleGeoffy

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I agree. I simply don't get why this isn't part of Photoshop.

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

This needs to be revived. it's rediculous we can't open, edit, or save webP images in 2018. I get years ago but today it's rediculous. Many of us front end developers have been using webP for years.

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Lumigraphics

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I don't regard serving WebP as best practice. Its not really supported outside of Google products.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/faq

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FeedbackCommunityMemberAuthor

Inspiring

For Photoshop CC on OSX this beta WebP plug-in may work:
https://github.com/fnordware/AdobeWebM

Please regard best practice for websites:
https://developers.google.com/web/tools/lighthouse/audits/webp

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LittleGeoffy

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I agree that native support would be preferable rather than downloading a plugin from some company I have never heard of.

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Jonas_M__Rogne

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Yup. That is not the same as Photoshop natively supporting such image formats though.

Photoshop natively supporting such things would be more user-friendly for the end user.

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J453

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Updated 07/14/2021:

As noted by Johannes there is a really nice file format plug-in that opens and saves webp files from Photoshop. You can download the Webp plugin and check the installation instructions here (with universal/ARM support): https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/kb/support-webp-image-format.html

According to Google's webP support page, you can download a free plug-in for webP support here: http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/WebPFormat#webpformat