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Drop PNG and JPG for your online images: Use WebP

Posted by bob on · 5 comments
Opensource.com; By Jeff Macharyas 		Mail this story
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WebP is an image format developed by Google in 2010 that provides superior lossless and lossy compression for images on the web. Using WebP, web developers can create smaller, richer images that improve site speed. A faster loading website is critical to the user experience and for the website's marketing effectiveness.

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Comments (5)

maxxedout ·
I found it interesting that the author posting an article on opensource.com it using Photoshop to convert his image. I stopped reading. No opensource tool to do this on Linux I guess.
gus3 ·
What? He already mentioned the Gimp before he got to Photoshop. Yes, there are open source tools to convert to WebP, like the Gimp and "cwebp" and ImageMagick's "convert" command. They work equally well on my Slackware-current system.

If you still claim "no opensource tool on Linux", I call b---s---.
skelband ·
I suspect that he was being sarcastic. :D
Steven_Rosenber ·
I use gThumb as my main image-processing app. You can call GIMP (or any other photo app) to edit an image through gThumb if you wish, but 99.9% of the time gThumb does everything I need.

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