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Lately I’ve been seeing this .webp as the extension on the picture files when I save them from a website. This is new to me, are the .jpg and .png extensions being tossed in favor of this . . . which I think will only show the saved picture if it’s run in a web browser like Chrome or Firefox.
I would like to be able to convert these .webp files to .jpg. Any information on this will be appreciated.
Webp is an image format developed by Google. The stated benefit is smaller size without loss of quality. Most web browers can read webp files – no need to convert first to jpg. My experience is that many graphics programs will open webp files, which then can easily be saved as jpg. Examples I tested include FastStone Image Viewer, XNView, and PaintNet. IrfanView will open webp but it asks you to install a plug-in first. However, my copy of Corel Paintshop Pro 2019 would not open webp (“invalid file”). Perhaps a more recent version will. Photoscape also would not open webp.
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I have been using PaintShopPro X7 (circa 2016-7) and it fully converts webp formats. PSP X7 will also do batch conversions of webp and png to jpg. It does not show a preview, but will open the webp image.
Older versions of email clients will not be able to view webp files internally and will require launching a viewer or browser.
I use the Microsoft Paint program to convert .webp to .jpg – the How-to Geek website has good instructions for a variety of methods:
“If you use Windows 10, you can download a WebP image to your hard drive and use MS Paint to open it. Why not utilize a piece of software already on your PC to convert any images you have? Paint converts WebP into JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and a few other formats as well, without having to download any extra software.”
How to Save Google’s WEBP Images As JPEG or PNG
by Michael Crider and Brady Gavin – Updated Jun 26, 2019
There are a lot of methods listed, scroll down a little to the one titled ‘Using MS Paint’ that has some easy instructions. Some other methods seem a little over complicated, but still good information provided. Also, sometimes when saving using Save As, I get to choose where to save, default is Downloads folder, but also I can rename the .webp to .png and it saves ok.
I would think that any currently updated image viewer would be able to handle the webp images without converting. Sorry if this is a silly question, but did you try it?
FWIW, my operating system’s default viewer (Gwenview) reads webp just fine. If the viewer you are using (whether the Windows default or otherwise) won’t read the format, there are plenty of other viewers that will, and that would save you a lot of time compared to converting them.
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Try Irfan View. For me personally – its awesome free tool, that I use for converting large number of files with few clicks – use the “batch conversion” function from the file menu.
2. Youll need Webp plugin here.
Batch conversion example:
Add files to convert to the right lower pane, then select output format and folder and click “Start Batch”. Files will be stored in the output folder you defined.
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@Charlie – You don’t have GIMP on Mint 19.1? It came with the installation of Mint 19.2 Cinnamon on my computers. In the main menu look for ‘GNU Image Manipulation Program’.
Or you can download from https://www.gimp.org/ and then install it.
GIMP is really good editor, I love it and I use the Windows version on my work PC too. But for simply converting files I think its unnescessarilly robust and slow (although functional).
IrfanView can be run in WINE emulator.
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Pix is the default/standard image viewer for Mint, so you can view the images with that without any conversion.
The Windows 7 machine, of course, is not having its default image viewer updated, and hasn’t for a while, so it’s from a time before webp was around or in wide use. It may be possible to install a codec in Windows 7 that will allow it to work with the webp format. I found several links for codec packs that claim that ability, but I can’t personally verify the legitimacy and safety of these.
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I would think that any currently updated image viewer would be able to handle the webp images without converting
Askwoody won’t accept webp file format, so there is the need of converting to jpg, png..
“File types allowed for upload: .jpg, .jpeg, .jpe, .gif, .png, .bmp, .avi, .mp4, .m4v, .txt, .asc, .c, .cc, .h, .srt, .csv, .mp3, .m4a, .m4b, .rtf, .pdf, .zip, .doc, .pot, .pps, .ppt, .xla, .xls, .xlt, .xlw, .docx, .docm, .dotx, .dotm, .xlsx, .xlsm, .pptx.”
@Charlie was asking about viewing images downloaded from the web, not about uploading them to this site. For simply viewing the images downloaded, it’s tedious to convert each and every one just to be able to see it. That’s not to say that there would never be any need to convert images, but for the use case Charlie specifically mentioned, there is an easier way.
The most common upload of images here are screenshots or other content created by the uploader, not things you download from somewhere else (that may be subject to copyright).
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No need to convert them. Using Firefox, you should be able to download WEBP images as PNG by:
1) Right-clicking on the image and Open Image in New Tab.
2) Ctrl+I.
3) Click the Media tab.
4) Select the PNG Image and Save As.
It’s a bit of a faff but I’ve always found that it works.
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