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.
Webp is actually a decent format, it's just that a certain desktop OS used by roughly 70% of people chooses to not support it
decent format
poorly supported
Hmm. I know what you mean but wide support is like 90% of the usefulness for a general image format.
its kinda like linux, its great and everybody loves it
but only 2% of people use it
as lemmy shows those 2% realllllly like it.
many android applications including Facebook messenger don't support it either
Lemmy.world's android app doesn't fully support it. I frequently get broken link image and never get animation. I know it can work because the same posts work in the Thundarr Lemmy app.
*It isn't as decent when you look at it's raw facts but for the web it's a step into future.
*Now behold of avif!
! please can we just get jxl for web finally...? !<
Tl;Dr: PNG but better.
No.
It losslessly compressed ~150GB of my PNGs to ~75GB, so I'd say it's definitely better space-wise.
It's absolutely not loseless at any kind of quality past web content
The WebP format supports fully lossless compression in addition to lossy compression. I used the lossless mode for my images.
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.
ffmpeg -i file.webp file.png
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.
You can just open it on paint and save as .png
ITT: people running win7
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
There is an easy fix though. Just open the image in Gimp and then export it as a jpeg or PNG.
Spending up to a minute or more opening a huge-ass program to just convert one single image doesn't seem exactly elegant to me. Maybe it's easy but it's also a bit of a pain.
convert image.webp image.png in your terminal should do the trick, if you're on Linux
Web pee
Where's the problem?
Webp images can be a pain in the ass to work with because many programs don't support them.
Is this a Windows thing I'm too Linux to understand?
Which programs don't support webp exactly?
In my case, Illustrator and XD, which I use a lot. One of the best features of XD is the ability to drag and drop images into placeholders but I can't do that with webp. In Illustrator, importing a webp file crashes the app.
Illustrator supports webp for a couple years now.
Must be on my end then. I tried opening one just now and it still crashes.
For a program costing US$22.99/mo crashing and not accepting webp, which is so abundant, is extrem. Especially crashing for such an expensive program is not acceptable.
Open with gimp -> export as -> export as png -> export
You over estimate the amount of effort I'm willing to put into saving memes
I disabled webp in firefox and still had to get a secondary image converter extension to get around this format, I wish I could opt out forever.
Legitimately amazing compression for gifs, but isn't supported for shit outside of the browser it comes in, be it editing images or upload to older online galleries. Good luck to anyone who just renames the file format to png/jpeg, now you have no idea what's actually the correct format when you need it... I used to think that was a good idea, until I faced programs that would not run 'renamed' formats whatsoever.
What were you thinking with the whole extension renaming ruse?!
But anyway, I've done that too.
I think it's a matter of time. MP3s were not support by many tools when it first came out.
You know when you were a kid and the was a toy in a clamshell of plastic that was super hard to tear?
It's a bit like that, but with less chance of slicing your thumb open
Why are people converting .webp to png with a program!? Just rename the file with the .png extension and it'll work. Try it.
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