{"id":7425,"date":"2014-04-20T15:33:44","date_gmt":"2014-04-20T19:33:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=7425"},"modified":"2014-04-22T08:13:34","modified_gmt":"2014-04-22T12:13:34","slug":"the-amazing-new-webp-image-format","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/the-amazing-new-webp-image-format\/","title":{"rendered":"The Amazing New WebP Image Format"},"content":{"rendered":"

Important<\/strong> — if you’re not using Google Chrome, you won’t see some of the images on this page<\/strong>. WebP is a new image format that take huge images and reduces the file sizes to about 1\/4 of the original image without making the picture smaller or changing its quality. It may be awhile before Firefox and IE render WebP correctly — it was the same way at one time with PNG. But soon all browsers will support this format. \u00a0Irfanview (image viewer) already supports WebP format -and we would guess some others do as well. It’s only a matter of time before WebP becomes widely used because it loads faster and saves space.<\/p>\n

We finally had a chance to try out the new WebP photo format developed by Google. We were skeptical as to how good an image would render after being compressed by 70 to 80%. It’s amazing… the compressed images are identical in quality to the original even though they are only 20 to 30% the size (in kilobytes\/megabytes) of the original.<\/p>\n

We took a folder full of JPG image and used a program called WebPConv to convert them. The program is free and dead simple to use – you simply drag your original photo into the program and press the “Compress” button. WebPConv converts both JPG and PNG to WebP format.<\/p>\n

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\nDrag and drop the images into WebPConv and press the compress button – it’s that easy. WebPConv saves your images in a sepearate folder so you still have the original image in its original format untouched. You can download WebPConv from here<\/a>.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

The proof is in the pudding, so they say, and below we offer you the proof.<\/p>\n

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Above is a photo called 3Boats in WebP format – it’s right around 600kb. The orginal, below, is just about 3 MB. If you have a slower connection you will see the image above load much more quickly than the image below.<\/p>\n

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See? OK. One more…<\/p>\n

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\nAbove is a picture called Tropical Sunrise in WebP format; it is 644 KB. Below is the original photo in JPG format.<\/p>\n

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The JPG original is 2.93 MB. Compressing the image to about 1\/4 of its original file size allows you to store more photos, makes them faster to upload to your favorite image-sharing site or social networking page, and allows you to store approximately 4 times more photos in the same amount of space without sacrificing the quality.<\/p>\n

We used WebPConv to convert the images for this article because it makes it a cinch to compress a group of photos really fast. It works with JPEG and PNG formats. If you’re interested in compressing your files to WebP format the easy way, download WebPConv here. It’s free.<\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n

FOR THOSE OF YOU WRITING SAYING THE LINK \u00a0TO CONNECT…<\/p>\n

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Important — if you’re not using Google Chrome, you won’t see some of the images on this page. WebP is a new image format that take huge images and reduces the file sizes to about 1\/4 of the original image without making the picture smaller or changing its quality. It may be awhile before Firefox and IE render\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1668,10],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7425"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7432,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7425\/revisions\/7432"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7425"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7425"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7425"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}