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Gianni Rosato<p>Introducing Iris-WebP, a better WebP encoder: <a href="https://halide.cx/iris/index.html" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">halide.cx/iris/index.html</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Iris offers up to &gt;20% better compression than libwebp, and trades blows with libaom for AVIF.</p><p>My goal is to build an image-first encoder ecosystem for the modern Web, so that new web image codecs aren't generally superfluous.</p><p><a href="https://disobey.net/tags/av1" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>av1</span></a> <a href="https://disobey.net/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webp</span></a> <a href="https://disobey.net/tags/compression" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>compression</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@ianthetechie" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>ianthetechie</span></a></span></p><p>Oh, I do plenty of the pre-processing. Peruse the <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/lossypng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LossyPNG</span></a> hashtag, it's probably 100% me.</p><p>But Amiga HAM would be a fun hobby-horse.</p><p>I do use <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> for the fediverse now, as it's supported by <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gotosocial" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GoToSocial</span></a> natively, but I think <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/avif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVIF</span></a> is actually considerably better.</p><p>Try a few test images on your own and see how it fares. I usually do something like:</p><p><code>convert image.png -quality 20 image.webp</code></p><p>and then attempt to create an image of nearly the same size in JPEG and AVIF for comparison.</p><p><code>convert image.png -quality {trial-and-error} image.avif</code><br><code>convert image.png -quality {trial-and-error} image.jpeg</code></p><p>The AVIF is almost always better looking, and the JPEG is almost always a total mosaic. ;)</p><p><a href="https://rldane.space/the-case-for-avif.html" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://rldane.space/the-case-for-avif.html</a></p><p>P.S., yes, you can name JPEGs <code>.jpeg</code>. It's not 1993 anymore. :P</p>
Space Hobo<p>I keep seeing memes about people furious with <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/WEBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WEBP</span></a>, but it's clear that it's a pretty good format that just needs better adoption. </p><p>I recently hit an old <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/BOFH" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>BOFH</span></a> excuse generator, and one of the listed excuses (from the early 90s) was "50% of the manual is in .pdf readme files". There was a time when <a href="https://teh.entar.net/tags/PDF" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PDF</span></a> was a weird new format people were trying to push on everything, and lack of tooling made us resent it!</p>
Geekland<p>WebP y WebM, los formatos abiertos de Google <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/multimedia" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>multimedia</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imagen" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imagen</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webm" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webm</span></a> <a href="https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/06/26059/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/0</span><span class="invisible">6/26059/</span></a></p>
Terence Eden’s Blog<p><strong>Why do some WebP Images appear upside down?</strong></p><p><a href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/06/why-do-some-webp-images-appear-upside-down/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/06/why-d</span><span class="invisible">o-some-webp-images-appear-upside-down/</span></a></p><p></p><p>A few years ago, Google introduced a new image format to the world - <a href="https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">WebP</a>. It purports to be a superior image format for the web but, like all new toys, it takes a little while for the bugs to be ironed out.</p><p>I found a curious case where <a href="https://twitter.com/edent/status/739196416615153664" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">some WebP images are rendered <em>upside down!</em></a></p><p></p><p>On the left is Opera for Android, centre is Chrome for Android, and on the right is Firefox for Android. Firefox is the only one which renders the lower image correctly. The upper image is also WebP.</p><p>This also seems to affect iOS.</p><blockquote><blockquote> <a href="https://twitter.com/edent" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><p></p> <p class="">Terence Eden is on Mastodon</p><p>@edent</p> </a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/edent" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p> <a href="https://twitter.com/paulglavin/status/739210327481581568" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Replying to @paulglavin</a><a href="https://twitter.com/paulglavin" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@paulglavin</a> so I'm not seeing things? That's good to know. Any chance of a screenshot? <a href="https://twitter.com/edent/status/739210689668124676" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="">❤️ 0</span><span class="">💬 0</span><span class="">🔁 0</span>21:42 - Sat 04 June 2016</a> </blockquote> <a href="https://twitter.com/paulglavin" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><p></p> <p class="">Paul Glavin</p><p>@paulglavin</p> </a><p><a href="https://twitter.com/paulglavin" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a></p> <a href="https://twitter.com/edent/status/739210689668124676" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">Replying to @edent</a><a href="https://twitter.com/edent" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@edent</a> I can't guarantee you're not seeing things! <a href="https://twitter.com/paulglavin/status/739211070141825024/photo/1" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">pic.x.com/o48z3ywmlq</a><p></p> <a href="https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CkI0io1WYAAuE4C.jpg" class="" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"></a> <a href="https://twitter.com/paulglavin/status/739211070141825024" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank"><span class="">❤️ 0</span><span class="">💬 1</span><span class="">🔁 0</span>21:43 - Sat 04 June 2016</a> </blockquote><p>The <a href="https://www.buzzfeed.com/hayleycampbell/it-was-the-70s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">original article</a> has since replaced the WebP images with standard JPGs - but I managed to grab one of the images before they were removed.</p><p>(Photo via <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20160519133027/http://www.theworldsbestever.com/2015/09/13/back-in-the-day-when-they-used-to-market-cocaine/" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">David Wilfert</a>)</p><p>I'm not sure if my Android phone has somehow mangled the file when it was saved, or whether the image was like that to start with.</p><p>There are, I suppose, three possibilities.</p><ol><li>Both iOS and Android have a bug with rendering some WebP images.</li><li>Buzzfeed's CDN has a bug which rotates <em>some</em> WebPs - and <a href="http://caniuse.com/#feat=webp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">doesn't serve them to Firefox due to lack of support</a>.</li><li>A collective hallucination.</li></ol><p>For now, I'm tempted to put the blame on a buggy image conversion - that seems to be the simplest explanation. Either way, a salutary reminder to check your content in several different browsers.</p><p></p><p><a rel="nofollow noopener" class="hashtag u-tag u-category" href="https://shkspr.mobi/blog/tag/webp/" target="_blank">#webp</a></p>
onreact<p>It's weird that Google Docs still does not support the <a href="https://mas.to/tags/WebP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> <a href="https://mas.to/tags/image" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>image</span></a> type - which was introduced by <a href="https://mas.to/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Google</span></a> almost 15 years ago. </p><p>When even Google does not support it, will it be sunset sooner or later? </p><p>Any insights on this <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://c.im/@rustybrick" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>rustybrick</span></a></span> <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://birdsite.blazelight.dev/users/johnmu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>johnmu</span></a></span>?</p><p>Is it safe to use it or will it be the next Flash?</p>
Verfassungklage@troet.cafe<p><a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Flameshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flameshot</span></a> mit <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webp</span></a> als <a href="https://troet.cafe/tags/Standardformat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Standardformat</span></a>: </p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/flameshot-mit-webp-als-standardformat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/flameshot-mit-webp</span><span class="invisible">-als-standardformat</span></a></p>
GNU/Linux.ch<p>Flameshot mit webp als Standardformat</p><p>In diesem Artikel erkläre ich, wie man Flameshot dazu bewegt, Bildschirmfotos im webp-Format zu speichern. </p><p><a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Flameshot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Flameshot</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/WEBP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WEBP</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Bildformat" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Bildformat</span></a> <a href="https://social.anoxinon.de/tags/Linux" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Linux</span></a></p><p><a href="https://gnulinux.ch/flameshot-mit-webp-als-standardformat" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">gnulinux.ch/flameshot-mit-webp</span><span class="invisible">-als-standardformat</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@amin" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>amin</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@tripplehelix" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tripplehelix</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@alatartheblue" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>alatartheblue</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@sotolf" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>sotolf</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@fbievan" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>fbievan</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@dmoonfire" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dmoonfire</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@gorkmo" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>gorkmo</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@kudzu" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>kudzu</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@roguefoam" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>roguefoam</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@thedoctor" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>thedoctor</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@dm" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>dm</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@jlw_the_jobber" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>jlw_the_jobber</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@adamsdesk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adamsdesk</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@orbitalmartian" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>orbitalmartian</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@clayton" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>clayton</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@joel" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>joel</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@krafter" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>krafter</span></a></span> <span class="h-card"><a href="https://polymaths.social/@btp" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>btp</span></a></span></p><p>I am wholeheartedly against consuming media storage.</p><p><a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/lossypng" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>LossyPNG</span></a> and <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> all the things. No animated GIF or video. Use <strong>words</strong> ya hosers. ;)</p><p>(WebP only until <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GtS</span></a> decides to support <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/avif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVIF</span></a>, which it seriously needs to do)</p>
yuart<p>Real</p><p><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/Web" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Web</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/IT" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>IT</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/meme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>meme</span></a></p>
WebP to PNG Hero<p>Need a quick way to convert WebP images to PNG? 🖼️<br>Try WebP to PNG Hero – fast, free, no installs, no watermarks.<br>Perfect for devs, designers &amp; anyone in between.<br>👉 <a href="https://webptopnghero.com" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">webptopnghero.com</span><span class="invisible"></span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebP" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/PNG" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>PNG</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ImageTools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ImageTools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/FreeTools" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FreeTools</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/WebDev" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebDev</span></a></p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://social.tinfoil-hat.net/users/tinfoil-hat" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>tinfoil-hat</span></a></span></p><p>I use <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> on the <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/fediverse" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>fediverse</span></a> a lot...</p><p>... because and only because nothing takes <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/avif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVIF</span></a>.</p><p>AVIF is BAE.</p>
tinfoil-hat<a class="hashtag" href="https://social.tinfoil-hat.net/tag/webp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webp</a>
Naty<p>I've always disliked the limited <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23watermarking" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#watermarking</a> features in <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23LightroomClassic" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#LightroomClassic</a>. I now use <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23Darktable" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Darktable</a>, which offers a better watermark tool and supports <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23webp" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#webp</a> exports—both important features to me. However, for watermarking screenshots or diagrams for my blog, I turn to the <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23CLI" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#CLI</a> tool <a class="hashtag" href="https://bsky.app/search?q=%23ImageMagick" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#ImageMagick</a>. 1/2</p>
Josep Bigorra 🐂🇳🇱🎸👨‍💻<p>I had a moment of inspiration and created <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/ggg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>ggg</span></a> take a look (still <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/experimental" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>experimental</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/foss" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>foss</span></a> software)</p><p>ggg: <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guile" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guile</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/scheme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>scheme</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/glyph" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>glyph</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/generator" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>generator</span></a></p><p><a href="https://codeberg.org/jjba23/ggg" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="">codeberg.org/jjba23/ggg</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p>Through <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/svg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>svg</span></a> generation from <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/lisp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>lisp</span></a> we leverage a (wip) <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/dsl" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>dsl</span></a> and apply some <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/math" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>math</span></a> knowledge to build pixel perfect project <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/markdown" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>markdown</span></a> / <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/org" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>org</span></a> badges. </p><p>It also scripts <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/imagemagick" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>imagemagick</span></a> to export to <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/png" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>png</span></a> or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webp</span></a> . </p><p>You can then use the svgs in your <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/codeberg" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>codeberg</span></a> (or <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/github" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>github</span></a>) repository <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/readme" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>readme</span></a> for example.</p><p>I provide a <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/guix" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>guix</span></a> manifest in the repo</p>
R.L. Dane :Debian: :OpenBSD: 🍵 :MiraLovesYou:<p><span class="h-card"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@adamsdesk" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@<span>adamsdesk</span></a></span></p><p>YES!!! <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/avif" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>AVIF</span></a> <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/ftw" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>FTW</span></a>!!!</p><p>Just FYI, nsxiv, imv, and swayimg all support AVIF as well, although imv did oddly have a glitch with one of the images I tested it with. I'd never seen that happen before.</p><p>According to some people I've spoken with, JPEG is still king for high-fidelity images and minimizing loss upon re-compression, but AVIF just totally whips the llama's posterior when it comes to relatively high fidelity at crazy low file sizes (high compression).</p><p>AVIF is often noticeably better quality than <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>WebP</span></a> at the same (low) file size and resolution, and parsecs beyond what JPEG can do with high compression factors.</p><p>If only the fediverse supported it!!! :(</p><p>We barely have WebP support (mostly on <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/gts" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>GtS</span></a>, maybe <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/snac" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>snac</span></a> (haven't tried it)), not on <a href="https://polymaths.social/tags/mastodon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>Mastodon</span></a>.</p>
peq42<p>WebP: is it Good or Bad? <a href="https://peq42.com/blog/webp-is-it-good-or-bad/" rel="nofollow noopener" translate="no" target="_blank"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">peq42.com/blog/webp-is-it-good</span><span class="invisible">-or-bad/</span></a><br><a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/webp" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>webp</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>google</span></a> <a href="https://mastodon.social/tags/technology" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#<span>technology</span></a></p>
R. L. Dane (Pixelfed)For today's <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/DailyDoodle?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#DailyDoodle</a>, I traced and sketched the cover art for the <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/PhilipGlass?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#PhilipGlass</a> album <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/GlassWorks?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#GlassWorks</a> while listening to the first track on repeat.<br> <br> It's always been a favorite of mine, and I love how ordered his music is. I think you either love his stuff or utterly hate it, either completely enjoy listening to it, or NOPE right out of it after about a minute.<br> <br> Here is the track, via invidious: <a href="https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_2vRbNehGB0" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://inv.nadeko.net/watch?v=_2vRbNehGB0</a><br> <br> I traced the basic outline of the image via the line tool (rather, the line mode of the pen tool) in <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/Xournal?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#Xournal</a>++, and then freestyled the shading with the album art to the side, rather than traced.<br> <br> For tracing, I just put the Xournal++ window above the swayimg window, and made it mostly transparent.<br> <br> I think I will start using this account for my daily doodles, as it'd be nice to have them gathered together in a separate space from my usual account (<a class="u-url" href="https://pixelfed.social/(@rl_dane@polymaths.social" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">@(@rl_dane@polymaths.social</a>), and I don't take that many photos, anyway.<br> <br> It's very interesting how much <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/entropy?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#entropy</a> there is in hand-drawn sketches. Even when I was trying to save space by converting the image to monochrome (which I didn't do with this one), the file sizes for the sketches were still pretty large, and even attempting to convert to <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/JPEG?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#JPEG</a> or <a href="https://pixelfed.social/discover/tags/WebP?src=hash" class="u-url hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">#WebP</a> didn't save much space over the monochrome PNG unless I really cranked down the compression factor and turned it into a blurry mess.<br> <br> It's also fascinating that the compressed XML source for the image is about the same size as the PNG. ^__^ (204KiB vs 158KiB)