P: Please Provide Support for the WebP Image format

Report · Jul 04, 2013

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.

Report · Nov 14, 2018

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?

Report · Dec 08, 2018

This format is essential in today's web-focused world. Not having it laughable. The sad part of it is that I had to use a competitor's product to do the conversion so I could use the image in After Effects that also doesn't support the format!

Report · Jan 23, 2019

It certainly is time to include WebP formatting options in Adobe products. This has my vote!

Report · Jan 23, 2019

I think there should be enough evidence by now to support the inclusion of support in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator for the WebP image format. While it may not be fully adopted across all browsers, I believe it is just a matter of time. And regardless, us developers are able to display the WebP format based on the browser being used per session.

Google is clearly pushing for use of WebP format and we all know how important it is to please Google for SEO purposes.

https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/using

Have a look at one of the biggest website builders in the industry, Wix. Although I do not personally like website builders like that (being a web designer myself), it still says a lot that they are using WebP format for all of their client's websites.

I love Adobe products for the fact that they simplify projects by providing everything I need in a set of related programs. I would prefer to not have to bloat my Photoshop program by adding an unknown plugin to implement WebP formatting. I also do not like the idea of having to use a third party conversion website and uploading my imagery to their server. I also do not know command prompt well and am not interested in learning to use the encoder program listed by Google. Let's make this easy for everyone and give newby designers another reason to buy your products.

Let's also not overlook the growing number of Adobe customers asking for this feature. It appears that they have been asking for it for years now. So here is my two cents... I would really appreciate and utilize the added functionality to manage WebP format. I would like to be ahead of the game when this expands to most other platforms.

Other than that, I love Adobe products and have been using them since before they were ever Adobe products. Thanks for all that you do!

Report · Jan 23, 2019

They can't fool a software engineer like I am. Sure, it takes some effort, but hey, with the amount of money they make, that is negligible. But yeah, why should they care, they keep making lots of money nevertheless, so why bother.

Report · Jan 23, 2019

@David Converse. Best practice? A graphics format isn't always our choice, customers will give us whatever the give us and we as professionals have to deal with it. Best practices don't come into the equation. Flexibility does. Also, at the end of the day, Adobe should not be forcing their "best practices" on us to restrict and limit the tools. No, tools should be all-encompassing so that we as users can express ourselves and use them uninhibitedly.

Report · Feb 02, 2019

As author of the linked (open source) WebP plugin, I'd very much like to hear about any problems you encountered.

Report · Feb 15, 2019

Are we asleep? Dreaming that we're "way out ahead?"

As a long-time user of the world's "premier" image app (Photoshop) and a long-time Creative Cloud subscriber, I should NOT need to use GIMP to open and covert WEBP images! Get with it PLEASE!!

Thank you so much. (It's 2019 already.)

Report · Mar 01, 2019

Please support WebP, it's too important to leave to an optional plug-in. Adobe should be on the leading edge of image support, not trailing.

Report · Mar 07, 2019

Hello

Can you make something like this for lightroom maybe please ?

Report · Mar 22, 2019

qu1j0t3, it works great. Some people just diss without knowing. So thank you.

Report · Apr 19, 2019

I am truly amazed that Adobe continues to upgrade the CC lineup and fails to implement a simple filter for opening webP formats. Adding my voice to the crowd of "please add support for webP" thank you.

Report · Apr 23, 2019

I'm adding mine as well. I came to Adobe hoping for some means of opening webp files in Photoshop. I can't believe they've overlooked this for so long.

Report · May 22, 2019

Simple. Add support for opening and exporting WebP images in photoshop.

Report · May 29, 2019

Report · Sep 19, 2019

The op wasn't dissing. Some people just don't feel like a program we pay this much for should require an additional plugin to support a rapidly becoming popular format, while they have so many other formats natively supported without being the case of popularity.

Report · Oct 20, 2019

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

Report · Nov 19, 2019

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.

Report · Nov 19, 2019

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_... 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.

Report · Nov 19, 2019

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.

Report · Nov 21, 2019

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?

Report · Dec 12, 2019

Please include support for webP natively

Report · Jan 09, 2020

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.

Report · Jan 09, 2020

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

Report · Jan 09, 2020

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.

P: Please Provide Support for the WebP Image format

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