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Title: WebP format Post by: Jeff on November 10, 2019, 08:18:48 AM Hello all
Just started to come across WebP extension. Seems to create problems, I can find only one prog on my comp. - Affinity - other than web browsers to open them. Has the format any merit or is it just another compatability problem. I know it is supposed to give smaller file sizes but would be interested in a same image comparison. Jeff Title: Re: WebP format Post by: Fred A on November 10, 2019, 10:46:42 AM Quote Just started to come across WebP extension. Seems to create problems, I can find only one prog on my comp. - Affinity - other than web browsers to open them. Has the format any merit or is it just another compatibility problem. I know it is supposed to give smaller file sizes but would be interested in a same image comparison. Jeff OK, and Hi Jeff At first, knowing you, it was an image (WEBP) of a spider urinating. But I was curious. So I looked for 5 minutes and see that it is a Google creation. I looked at some samples and great hullabaloo over this format seems to be the allegation that is saves space by making a smaller save with less loss. So I took a peek and noticed that the side by side comparison, jpg to jfif is smaller by byte size but a hunk of image is cropped off. To me that accounts for the smaller byte size. See Snaps. Right side 20% is missing? The next thing I tried was to open it; very dicey to find a program that will open it. Qimage, no! So I renamed the .fif to .jpg, and guess what? Qimage sees it and for all intents and porpoises treats it same as a JPG. So I wonder what Mike sees. Fred Title: Re: WebP format Post by: Jeff on November 10, 2019, 03:44:08 PM At first, knowing you, it was an image (WEBP) of a spider urinating.
An interesting thought, never seen that thank goodness, we have thousands of them. Done a bit more digging, and find that a web site authoring I and my friend use - WIX - converts our images to this Google inspired format, well google bought it about 2010. I am aways interested when others fiddle and resize images. Still trying to get two versions of same image to compare. I will continue to explore Jeff |