WebP is Google’s version of a modern, versatile image format, meant to replace the likes of PNG and JPEG. However, all it’s managed to do in the last several years is be a mild annoyance.

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.

Google has introduced the new WebP image format as another in a series of moves the company has made to speed up the Web.

To do this, open the WebP image in Preview and then click on “File” in the menu bar and then on “Export.” Here you can select the format for saving as usual, such as JPG or PNG.

Without getting into too many technicalities, WebP incorporates a new encoding algorithm, making the image format superior to PNG, which has been around since 1997, and the even older JPEG image ...

Fortunately, an extension for Google Chrome can be added that will allow you to save any image, including WebP images, as a JPG or PNG file. Download ‘Save image as’ Google Chrome extension.

As part of its self-imposed mission to make the web faster, Google has rolled its own image format. It’s called WebP, and it’s based on open source technology. Google launched the initiative ...

While running tests, Bühlmann found that a novel image compressed with Stable Diffusion looked subjectively better at higher compression ratios (smaller file size) than JPEG or WebP.

WebP is a newer image format developed by Google and announced in 2010. It provides lossy and lossless compression with smaller file sizes as compared to JPEG and PNG files. Compared with JPEGs ...