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Where’s the problem?
Webp images can be a pain in the ass to work with because many programs don’t support them.
Which programs don’t support webp exactly?
Also, some sites don’t recognise webp images when I’m trying to upload those. Like, it’s literally made for web, wtf
99% of the images I save are used as a desktop background at work for a day or two.
.webp doesn’t work as a windows desktop background…
I end up just screenshoting and cropping.
.webp is great until you need to use anything that wasn’t built with it in mind. Lots of stuff just never bothered adding support.
Browser save-as-type to the rescue.
Firefox extension: https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/image-converter/
Chrome too, but find it yourself if you are still using that.
thanks, i’ll try this later!
Hey, thanks for this!
Every webp image I’ve wanted to save I just renamed the extension to png and it works fine.
It’s a workaround but doesn’t work if you try to open the image in Photoshop to edit it without the webp plugin.
Photoshop supports it atm, not sure how recent it was added
Ah I don’t have the recent cloud, I’m a version or two behind. I’ve always needed a plugin for webp images
This doesn’t always work unfortunately.
I really like WEBP.
It supports transparency, animations, and compression, and seems to look really good even with very strong compression. It’s a shame that, despite it coming out 13 years ago, it’s still barely supported by so much software.
Sounds to me like people need to stop supporting software that doesn’t take the time to update. WEBP is great, and I haven’t run into a single program that doesn’t support it, personally.
Adobe stack doesn’t support it natively. That’s a pretty big one.
Wasn’t that solved back in May?
Okay, perhaps. It’s been a little while since I’ve tried it. While unrelated, it took Adobe 3-ish years to implement support. That’s hardly acceptable, and isn’t really defensible.
Totally agree. I switched to GIMP a long time ago.
I own a commercial printing company, gimp isn’t really an option for us. Neither is inkscape.
I like it in concept, but not in practice. Way too many programs inexplicably can’t read it and it’s annoying as shit.
Web pee
It annoys me that Firefox won’t autoplay animated webp, at least ones in Lemmy posts, unless I open a whole new tab just for the fucking .webp
do you have disable auto play video enabled?
Nope, it doesn’t even show the controls if I mouse over, no different options with a right click, as if it was a jpeg image instead of a small video. Also, that’s the case with webm, not webp, but I guess my trouble is still valid? Dunno now
Sounds like html issue tbh
ffmpeg -i file.webp file.pngBut can it convert animated webp’s back into the gifs they’re based off of anyway? That’s what makes me really hate the webp standard. If I save an animated image as webp no video converter will touch it that I’ve found. I just want my gifs and mp4s back :(
You can convert it to frames with imagemagick, then use ffmpeg to turn that into a gif:
magick animated.webp frames.png
ffmpeg -i frames-%d.png animated.gifEDIT, or with a single imagemagick command:
convert -format gif file.webp file.gif
It works?!
Pretty sure
ffmpegis just black magic at this point.
convert file.webp file.pngProblem solved.
Hope someone (Apple?) starts pushing JPEGXL though.
Google invented .webp to save corporations lots and lots of bandwidth with the new reduced image size. Technically it’s the choice of the site host to distribute images as .webp so Lemmy is a bit guilty as well for adopting the standard. I don’t like Webp, for some reason they don’t get treated as image files when you try to visit their source or open them in a windows file structure, instead it takes you to some shitty bloated webpage with more than just the image.
