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Jan 12, 2017 4:29 AM UTC
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P: Camera Raw/Lightroom Classic/Lightroom Ecosystem: Support for WebP

I'm preparing a bunch of files for the web and would like to use Google's WebP format. How can I export photos in Lightroom to WebP?

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johnrellis
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Jan 12, 2017 3:37 PM UTC
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.
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Participating Frequently
Jan 12, 2017 2:22 PM UTC
There's a free Google conversion tool at the bottom of this page which might work as a LR post action. If for some reason you didn't want to use PS to do it. https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/
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johnrellis
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Jan 12, 2017 5:46 AM UTC
LR doesn't support WebP directly.  To export to WebP, you'll have to export as TIFF or JPEG and then convert using a third-party converter.  You could likely create a Photoshop droplet that uses the Photoshop WebP plugin to convert, and then install the droplet as a post-process action in a LR Export preset, so that you could export directly to WebP.
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