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WebP was developed by Google to replace the outdated JPG, PNG, and GIF formats and is said to be technically superior to all three. The format supports both lossless and lossy compression.

In the case of WebP, there is even a bigger size reduction: lossless WebP is about 25% smaller than the PNG, and its lossy version can be up to 35% smaller than the widely popular JPEG.

WebP was created as an improved version of JPEG, PNG, and GIF, with more flexibility and smaller file sizes than those older formats. Widespread adoption took a long time, but it’s now fully ...

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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.

WebP is a relatively new image file format from Google designed to make web pages load faster and consume less bandwidth. It’s gradually becoming supported by more and more operating systems and ...

WebP, like JPEG, is a method of “lossy compression,” meaning that it doesn’t perfectly reproduce images, but gives you a choice between file size and picture quality.

WebP supporters and new tests One WebP fan is Everything.me, creator of a mobile app for Firefox OS or Android that presents people with a dynamically generated array of Web apps.