WebP is now everywhere. Developed by Google, the image format is intended to replace JPG and PNG and is already used on numerous websites. Find out how you can handle WebP files efficiently and ...

You may have seen a new photo file format on the rise, Google's own WebP. Here's how the format works, what it's good for, and everything else you should know.

WebP isn’t the only somewhat-new image format, either—much of this also applies to JPEG XL, AVIF, and HEIC images. In fact, AVIF is based on technology from AV1, the successor to the VP8/VP9 ...

Google built the royalty-free WebM video format with the sophisticated VP8 compression technology that it obtained in its 2009 acquisition of On2. In addition to advancing the goal of open video ...

New Delhi: The WebP image format developed by Google is highly efficient in terms of compression and can display images at a reduced size of around 33% compared to formats like JPEG or PNG.

Chrome, Firefox and Edge are saving images in the WebP format, and that is not ideal for many users. They would prefer if this were done in other formats such as JPG or PNG, so what to do?

Apple similarly added WebP support in iOS 10 and MacOS Sierra, but later replaced it with HEIF, an image format based on the HEVC video compression standard (also known as H.265 and MPEG-H Part 2).

Related Read: 10 Best Image Downloader Chrome Extensions Open WebP Images With Windows Photo Viewer. Since Google developed the WebP format, you can get a very good working codec directly from Google.

If you've got a WebP image that you need to edit but can't, converting it to JPG or PNG format might solve your problems. Here's how to do it.

If you've got a WebP image that you need to edit but can't, converting it to JPG or PNG format might solve your problems.

WebP's lack of basic feature parity with JPEG in areas like metadata handling and ICC color profiles is identified by Muizelaar as another major problem with Google's format.