Download our free Premiere plug-in for WebM, the open movie format created by Google. WebM is the HTML-5 standard video format that relies exclusively on open source and patent-free technology. It uses the VP8 and VP9 video codecs together with the Vorbis and Opus audio codecs, wrapped up in a Matroska container. The Webp image format is used by almost every caching plugin and webdesigner on this planet, yet we still have to beg Adobe to finally open this format natively in Photoshop. We are paying 1000 USD + a year for a creative cloud membership and need to buy a third party plugin just to open one of the most important file formats on the web?
Webp Photoshop Plug In
In this tutorial we are looking how to open WebP files with Windows Photo Viewer and Photoshop. WebP initial release was 2010 but now you can see it to be used more often. High five casion. Transfer photos from android to ipad pro. WebP is developed by Google, and Google says that it is 26% smaller in size compared to PNG:s, and lossy images are 25-34% smaller than JPEG images, and it supports transparency just like PNG. WebP files doesn't affect your life at all until you save image from web to your computer and see that it is .webp file. Because WebP isn't supported by all browsers yet, websites has to have JPEG/PNG fallback and offer those images to user, if it sees that your browser doesn't support WebP.
Installing WebP codec for Windows Photo Viewer
1. Download WebP codec for windows from this link https://storage.googleapis.com/downloads.webmproject.org/releases/webp/WebpCodecSetup.exe . After downloading, start setup. Setup is really straight forward. Just hit next next next.
2. By default WebP files are assigned to Chrome. Adobe photoshop version 13 0. So you want to right click .webp file and go to Open With -> Windows Photo viewer
3. If you want to always open .webp files with Windows Photo Viewer. From right click go to Open With -> Choose another app. Select Windows Photo Viewer and check Always use this app to open .webp files.
Installing WebP codec for Photoshop
Because Photoshop doesn't yet support natively .webp it will say 'Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document.'. So we need to install plugin.
1. Download plugin for Photoshop.
32bit - http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/WebPFormat-1.2b4-win32.zip
64bit - http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/WebPFormat-1.2b4-win64.zip
If download links doesn't work. Adobe photoshop cs6 tools and functions ppt. Go to here to find working ones: http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/WebPFormat#webpformat
2. Extract zip file and copy or cut WebPFormat64.8bi file.
Google's Adobe Photoshop Webp Plugin
3. If you want to always open .webp files with Windows Photo Viewer. From right click go to Open With -> Choose another app. Select Windows Photo Viewer and check Always use this app to open .webp files.
Installing WebP codec for Photoshop
Because Photoshop doesn't yet support natively .webp it will say 'Could not complete your request because it is not the right kind of document.'. So we need to install plugin.
1. Download plugin for Photoshop.
32bit - http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/WebPFormat-1.2b4-win32.zip
64bit - http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/files/WebPFormat-1.2b4-win64.zip
If download links doesn't work. Adobe photoshop cs6 tools and functions ppt. Go to here to find working ones: http://telegraphics.com.au/sw/product/WebPFormat#webpformat
2. Extract zip file and copy or cut WebPFormat64.8bi file.
Google's Adobe Photoshop Webp Plugin
3. And move WebPFormat64.8bi file to your Photoshop installation folder and inside there to Plug-ins folder. Omni remover 3 3 0 x 2. Mine installation in this example is located at C:Program FilesAdobeAdobe Photoshop CC 2017Plug-ins
Adobe Photoshop Webp Plugin
And now you can open WebP files with Photoshop!
