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.

[ProDesignTools]

Hey Geoff. what may be missing is the relative popularity of the request. Even though this idea/suggestion has been posted for almost 6 years, it currently has only 38 followers and 50 "me toos."

So definitely for some users, it would be good and important if Photoshop natively supported WebP rather than needing to use a third-party plugin, but there does not yet appear to be a huge number of people asking for it. 

Obviously with every new release, the PS engineers have to juggle and decide which new features to work on and which to defer, while also trading off total program code size and overall performance, etc.

So adding native support for WebP may well be in the cards down the road, as WebP picks up steam and this request picks up critical mass.

[Lumigraphics]

Its useless for anyone on Apple products- Apple is going with HEIF which is technically superior to WebP. Photoshop doesn't support that, either.

[Lumigraphics]

Its useless for anyone on Apple products- Apple is going with HEIF which is technically superior to WebP. Photoshop doesn't support that, either.

[JonasRogne]

Adobe: https://www.xkcd.com/2254/

[sérgioa34671784]

This Internet is littered with WebP images now. Not being able to open them using Photosop it's not just improductive but ridiculous. Why isn't Adobe solving this? The original request was made 7 (seven) years ago. 

[JonasRogne]

We hit 7 now? Yay! Another anniversary!

I bet Adobe will add some sort of improved html/css export abilities before we get something useful like opening all common web image formats... 😉

[Excel-Expart]

Great !! Its work properly in my PC. But download link txt is too small, Many of new adobe user can't find that.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

External plugins didn't work for me. Photoshop crash when I try to convert an image in webp. I use PS for business. 

[AndyWizz]

The PlugIn works but there is still no support for generator and export as which is really annoying

[DrSchoen]

none of the plugins works with Photoshop CC 2020

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

This Plugin seems to do the job:

ENVIRONMENT
OSX 10.15.04, Photoshop 21.1.0 (2020)

WEBP PLUGIN 
https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/webpshop
https://github.com/webmproject/WebPShop

INSTALLATION GUIDE
tells you how to remove OSX Quarantine amongst other things (written in German)
https://www.ifun.de/macos-catalina-plugin-oeffnet-webp-dateien-in-photoshop-148521/

[DrSchoen]

Thank you. It worked once I ran the installation guide through google translate.

[sérgioa34671784]

Will give it a try. Thank you very much.

[ericneedle]

Two years later, no native support for .webp?

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Still in a holding pattern. Why is Adobe forcing us to third-party solutions?

[flairicus]

Eric - I too would like to see this as an open and Save As Web option. I don't like installing third party software on a work computer.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Really starting to needs this as a Web design/SEO Agency. Does anybody have any good workarounds? 

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

You may take a look at my comment (2 months ago, #reply_20516188) KR, Jo

[supernaut_au]

Has an official Feature Request been opened?

[Lumigraphics]

WebP will not liklely get traction because Apple won't support it. Without the iPhone, websites would be back to the fractured web with different sites for different browsers and nobody wants that. I'd rather see Google adopt HEIC, personally.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Very disappointing prioritization you're doing there.  We don't work for you, and shouldn't have to build your software for you.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

Perhaps the old adage, "never trust anyone over 30" applies to Photoshop? Time to build new format opening, exporting and saving into PS CC 2020.

[Ellie0D4D]

Well, Apple now supporting WebP on macOS and iOS, so now all browsers are supporting it. So, Adobe CC needs to support it natively!

[Test Screen Name]

Aha, Safari 14 (released this week as optional download) now supports WebP. But that's hardly "all browsers" unless you want to design web sites that don't work for people who haven't downloaded this week's software. I'd give it another 5 years until it's reasonable to stop supporting Safari 13, though your clients may feel longer is better.

[FeedbackCommunityMember]

I love using photoshop. I've created a website and blog with bluehost and wordpress.org. I need to convert what I create in photoshop from jpeg to WebP format for performance reasons.  Does photoshop plan on doing this conversion in the near future?  In your previous problem solving, are there any free plug-ins that you would recommend to convert to WebP? Can you recommend any references that I can refer to solve my problem? HELP!