Introducing Iris-WebP, a better WebP encoder: https://halide.cx/iris/index.html
Iris offers up to >20% better compression than libwebp, and trades blows with libaom for AVIF.
My goal is to build an image-first encoder ecosystem for the modern Web, so that new web image codecs aren't generally superfluous.
Oh, I do plenty of the pre-processing. Peruse the #LossyPNG hashtag, it's probably 100% me.
But Amiga HAM would be a fun hobby-horse.
I do use #WebP for the fediverse now, as it's supported by #GoToSocial natively, but I think #AVIF is actually considerably better.
Try a few test images on your own and see how it fares. I usually do something like:
convert image.png -quality 20 image.webp
and then attempt to create an image of nearly the same size in JPEG and AVIF for comparison.
convert image.png -quality {trial-and-error} image.avifconvert image.png -quality {trial-and-error} image.jpeg
The AVIF is almost always better looking, and the JPEG is almost always a total mosaic. ;)
https://rldane.space/the-case-for-avif.html
P.S., yes, you can name JPEGs .jpeg. It's not 1993 anymore. :P
I keep seeing memes about people furious with #WEBP, but it's clear that it's a pretty good format that just needs better adoption.
I recently hit an old #BOFH 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 #PDF was a weird new format people were trying to push on everything, and lack of tooling made us resent it!
WebP y WebM, los formatos abiertos de Google #multimedia #imagen #webp #webm https://proxy.jesusysustics.com/2025/06/26059/
Why do some WebP Images appear upside down?
https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2016/06/why-do-some-webp-images-appear-upside-down/
A few years ago, Google introduced a new image format to the world - WebP. 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.
I found a curious case where some WebP images are rendered upside down!
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.
This also seems to affect iOS.
Terence Eden is on Mastodon
@edent
Replying to @paulglavin@paulglavin so I'm not seeing things? That's good to know. Any chance of a screenshot?0
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Paul Glavin
@paulglavin
Replying to @edent@edent I can't guarantee you're not seeing things! pic.x.com/o48z3ywmlq
The original article has since replaced the WebP images with standard JPGs - but I managed to grab one of the images before they were removed.
(Photo via David Wilfert)
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.
There are, I suppose, three possibilities.
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.
It's weird that Google Docs still does not support the #WebP #image type - which was introduced by #Google almost 15 years ago.
When even Google does not support it, will it be sunset sooner or later?
Any insights on this @rustybrick @johnmu?
Is it safe to use it or will it be the next Flash?
Flameshot mit webp als Standardformat
In diesem Artikel erkläre ich, wie man Flameshot dazu bewegt, Bildschirmfotos im webp-Format zu speichern.
@amin @tripplehelix @alatartheblue @sotolf @fbievan @dmoonfire @gorkmo @kudzu @roguefoam @thedoctor @dm @jlw_the_jobber @adamsdesk @orbitalmartian @clayton @joel @krafter @btp
I am wholeheartedly against consuming media storage.
#LossyPNG and #WebP all the things. No animated GIF or video. Use words ya hosers. ;)
(WebP only until #GtS decides to support #AVIF, which it seriously needs to do)
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#WebP #PNG #ImageTools #FreeTools #WebDev
I've always disliked the limited #watermarking features in #LightroomClassic. I now use #Darktable, which offers a better watermark tool and supports #webp exports—both important features to me. However, for watermarking screenshots or diagrams for my blog, I turn to the #CLI tool #ImageMagick. 1/2
I had a moment of inspiration and created #ggg take a look (still #experimental #foss software)
ggg: #guile #scheme #glyph #generator
https://codeberg.org/jjba23/ggg
Through #svg generation from #lisp we leverage a (wip) #dsl and apply some #math knowledge to build pixel perfect project #markdown / #org badges.
It also scripts #imagemagick to export to #png or #webp .
You can then use the svgs in your #codeberg (or #github) repository #readme for example.
I provide a #guix manifest in the repo
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.
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).
AVIF is often noticeably better quality than #WebP at the same (low) file size and resolution, and parsecs beyond what JPEG can do with high compression factors.
If only the fediverse supported it!!! :(
We barely have WebP support (mostly on #GtS, maybe #snac (haven't tried it)), not on #Mastodon.
WebP: is it Good or Bad? https://peq42.com/blog/webp-is-it-good-or-bad/
#webp #google #technology
#ВеселыеКартинки #игори #WEBP #FAIL
А вот пример, где WEBP откровенно фейлит, размывая текстуры, в то время как JPEG со всеми его артефактами смотрится более детализованно.
