
WebP-related software is released under a BSD free software license. As a derivative of the VP8 video format, it is a sister project to the WebM multimedia container format. It was based on technology which Google had acquired with the purchase of On2 Technologies. WebP was first announced by Google on 30 September in 2010 as a new open format for lossy compressed true-color graphics on the web, producing files that were smaller than JPEG files for comparable image quality. Google announced the WebP format in September 2010, and released the first stable version of its supporting library in April 2018. It supports both lossy and lossless compression, as well as animation and alpha transparency. WebP is an image file format developed by Google intended as a replacement for JPEG, PNG, and GIF file formats. Java is a registered trademark of Oracle and/or its affiliates.Chromium. For details, see the Google Developers Site Policies. Participation in the project please see theĮxcept as otherwise noted, the content of this page is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License, and code samples are licensed under the Apache 2.0 License. If these options are not enough to get a satisfying result, theĬommand line tools offer more settings than thisĬurrently implemented and missing features are described there. Quality of at least 98 might be better-looking and smaller. black-and-white text, low-effect 3D renders.), icons, heavy-traffic web photos.), going as low as 30 is notįor artificial images (e.g. "Frame1 (123 ms)"), a slider will select the current frame, showing itsįor photography, quality around 70 is a good start. Warning: for big images and/or heavy compression effort, the graphical user interface may be slow/unresponsive when this is enabled.įor animations (several layers containing a duration in their name e.g. If the picture is too tall or too wide, a moveable zoomed-in area willĪppear. The preview feature will show the compressed image and its final size. Visual quality and/or decreases the file size. The compression effort controls the encoding speed. screenĬaptures, plain colors.), the lossless algorithm produces smaller files. Usually theĬompressed size increases with quality but for some images (e.g. The quality goes from lossy 0 (the image is degraded to fit in fewerīytes) to lossless 100 (pixels stay exactly the same). WebPShop, the plug-in for opening and saving WebP images directly from AdobeĬompression settings can be adjusted during the "Save" command.
