P: Please Provide Support for the WebP Image format

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

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.

[J453]

WebP support is available in the Photoshop (Beta). Instructions to install.

Try and provide feedback on this new feature here prior to its official release: https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/announcing-full-support-for-webp-in-photos...

[cannon303]

It should be part of the Export dialogue as an option along with jpeg, gif and png.

[Stephen Marsh]

It should be part of the Export dialogue as an option along with jpeg, gif and png.

By @cannon303

This is an opensource project, there is no feedback link so the most appropriate place would appear to be here:

https://github.com/webmproject/WebPShop/issues

[J453]

Native WebP support was added to Photoshop 23.2: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2022-1.html#support-for-webp

[ProDesignTools]

Terrific news; thanks so much, @J453!

[cannon303]

Allowing an open source plugin to work with Photoshop is not really the "support" I'm looking for. Can Adobe not actually hard code the functionality into Photoshop as standard or do copyright laws prevent them from doing so?

[J E L]

Fantastic! Works fine, thank you, @J453. Note to use “save as” and not “export” for the WebP (*.WEBP) extension.

[ProDesignTools]

@cannon303 –

That's exactly what's happened. Native WebP support was added to Photoshop 23.2: https://helpx.adobe.com/photoshop/using/whats-new/2022-1.html#support-for-webp

Full support for WebP

We are excited to announce that Photoshop now has full support for the WebP file format! WebP files can now be opened, created, edited, and saved in Photoshop without the need for a plug-in or preference setting.

[jane-e]

@cannon303 said:
"It should be part of the Export dialogue as an option along with jpeg, gif and png."

Be sure to post your feedback to the link for the beta that Jeffrey just gave us:

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-beta-discussions/announcing-full-support-for-webp-in-photos...

Jane

[Stephen Marsh]

Now that native WebP support has been added, it would be nice if Photoshop's default scripts supported WebP when saving files – such as:

* File > Scripts > Image Processor (add PNG as well), or just license or commission an updated Image Processor Pro

* File > Export > Artboards to Files

* File > Export > Layers to Files

I'm probably missing others, but you get the idea.

EDIT: Batch saving scripts for WebP here –

https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-discussions/export-many-files-at-once-in-webp-for...

[jane-e]

Great idea, @Stephen Marsh . Can you post this as a new idea in its own thread so I can vote for it?

Jane

[Sulaco]

Thank you, Adobe! Appreciate this!

[Cam Smith]

Greatly appreciate webp support has being added to Photoshop!

Given the format's advantage is optimised compression - it would be a super helpful addition to also include 'preview' and estimated file size in the saving dialogue for .webp (like jpg has) as that allows designers to find the optimal balance between compression rate and filesize.

[Cam Smith]

Replying to my own post to note that adding preview/file size to the webp save dialogue is a live request if people browsing here want to upvote it https://community.adobe.com/t5/photoshop-ecosystem-ideas/add-a-preview-to-save-as-webp-same-as-found...

[ProDesignTools]

Thank you, 100% agree!