Just close Photoshop, download the CS5/6 version from the site, save it in the plug-ins folder (Applications Adobe Photoshop CC 2019 Plug-ins Save WebPFormat.plugin here). Then you'll need to set the default application for.webp files to Photoshop. It may not work the first time you try to open the files. We will need a plugin to be able to open.WebP files from within Adobe Photoshop. Brendan Bolles of fnordware has come to many of our rescue by creating such a plugin. WebP for Photoshop v0.5b9, 16 December 2015 for Windows Once downloaded, unzip the files and access the folder for your particular operating system. Nov 10, 2020 Luckily, there’s a quick and simple solution that allows you to open and save WebP images in Photoshop! How to Enable WebP in Photoshop with Google’s WebPShop Plugin. The peeps at Google have created a nice and simple plugin for Photoshop, called WebPShop, which allows you to enable the WebP format. Here’s what you need to do. Paint converts WebP into JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and a few other formats as well, without having to download any extra software. Right-click on the image, then click Open With Paint if it’s not set to open WebP files by default. Once you open the image in Paint, click File Save As, then choose a format from the list available.
WebP is an image format from Google for lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. WebP images are smaller in size compared to JPEG (see comparision below) and PNG images, and it has support for transparency (a.k.a. as alpha channel), animation, ICC color profile, XMP meta-data and tiling.
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WebP image format is not natively supported by Windows, various graphic editors and even browsers such as Firefox and Internet Explorer. Because of this, they are not widely used yet. But if you found yourself with a .webp image, here are some ways to view and edit them on Windows.
View WebP Images in Windows
To view WebP images natively on Windows, you can download and install the WebP codec. This codec brings WebP support to software such as Windows Photo Viewer, Microsoft Office 2010 (You can share documents with WebP images with your friends or colleagues and they would be able to view it without installing the WebP codec.) and Windows Media Center. It also enables thumbnail support for the image format in Windows Explorer.
WebP codec works on Windows XP Service Pack 3 and newer.
Open A Webp File In Photoshop
Download:WebP codec
Google Chrome (v9+) and Opera (v11.10+) browser natively support WebP. You can extend support to Internet Explorer with Google Chrome Frame.So if you simply want to view images, you can use these programs as well.
Create and Edit WebP Images in Windows
Open Webp Image
Graphic software XnConvert, ImageMagick and Konvertor has native support for WebP. If you have any of these installed, you can view, edit and create images easily.
If you use a professional software like Photoshop, you can add support for WebP by installing a free plug-in by Telegraphics. The plugin is available for both 32-bit and 64-bit versions of Photoshop CS5 and earlier. GIMP also has a plugin for WebP.
Webp Plugin Photoshop
Download:
- WebP GIMP Plugin
Convert JPEG and PNG images to WebP Image Format
Google has made available two command line utilities, cwebp and dwebp, to convert JPEG and PNG images to WebP and vice versa.
To convert images to the WebP format use cwebp. On the command line enter:
To convert WebP images to PNG or any other format use dwebp. On the command line enter:
Complete instruction is available in the download package.
Download WebP library and tools: 32-bit | 64-bit