Exporting artboards to webp format?

[Art by JLM]

Great that the latest Photoshop has "full" webp support, but lacking is the ability to export artboards to webp format. I build a lot of my website graphics as artboards, but it looks like I will need an intermediary step of saving the artboards as PSD files first, and then exporting them as webp? Or am I missing something?

Thanks,

Judi

[Mel30188944k1h7]

@Stephen_A_Marsh  

What a legend!! Thank you so so SO much for your help here. 
Really appreciated. 

Hope you have a wonderful day. 
Mel 

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

@Mel30188944k1h7 

You’re welcome! I have updated the code to v1.1 with some extra metadata removal options to help slim down and or sanitise the output.

EDIT: Script updated to a 1.2 version with a "Script running, please wait..." message.

[Mel30188944k1h7]

Hey @Stephen_A_Marsh 

It's really helpful, thank you so much. One thing I noticed with these versions of the scripts, are that the document immediately closes after the script has finished running. Is it possible to keep the document open again since we have to export many different images. I think we had this on a previous version of the script, but then lost it again when you added the JPEG function to it. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as always! Hope you have a wonderful week. 
Thanks Mel

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

Hey @Stephen_A_Marsh 

It's really helpful, thank you so much. One thing I noticed with these versions of the scripts, are that the document immediately closes after the script has finished running. Is it possible to keep the document open again since we have to export many different images. I think we had this on a previous version of the script, but then lost it again when you added the JPEG function to it. 

Any help would be greatly appreciated as always! Hope you have a wonderful week. 
Thanks Mel

By @Mel30188944k1h7

Temporary destructive changes are being made to the original file, so it is closed without saving for safety.

It is possible to add a step to duplicate the file, so that the script works on the duped file and then closes that down without saving, leaving the untouched original open.

Would that work for you?

[Mel30188944k1h7]

Hi @Stephen_A_Marsh 
Ahh I see, hmm. We don't need the file to save specifically. It's just the PSD.  Just to remain open so we can crop more images. It was definately possible in an older version of the script, but I can't seem to find where you made the change for me. 

If this is the only way to do it, that totally cool. Just saves us from having to reopen the PSD. 

Thanks a lot for your time! 

[Mel30188944k1h7]

I guess the other thing to consider is that IF we wanted to make a small edit to the crop, we previously did, We'd have to add the images again. Keeping the file "OPEN" would allow us to edit as much as we needed to first before closing and saving the PSD if needed. I just had that exact issue.

I hope that makes sense? @Stephen_A_Marsh 

[SkyTygr]

THIS 100% NEEDS TO BE ADDED. So lame that this didn't get into Export as but did make it to Save A Copy... wah, wah, wah....

[Stephen_A_Marsh]

@Mel30188944k1h7 

I have updated the JPEG & WEBP script to a 1.3 version, working on and then closing a temporary file without closing the original doc.

[Mel30188944k1h7]

AMAZING. Again thanks a lot for your support here.