The Instant Previews feature of Google Search uses WebP internally to reduce disk space used by previews. Telegram too has started using WebP for it's popular stickers. They've now apparently begun delivering those images to people using Chrome and Opera. When people upload JPEG/JPG images, Facebook automatically makes copies in WebP format. Even relatively small efficiency wins start to add up at Facebook's scale. Amongst graphics softwares, Picasa, PhotoLine, Pixelmator, ImageMagick, Konvertor, XnView, IrfanView and GDAL all natively support WebP.įacebook has begun using WebP to lower its network costs and speed up its web site. Google Chrome and Opera both natively support WebP. Hence, the WEBP lossy compression - like JPEG - is based on block prediction. Out of these encoded or residual values, many are null or zero and this phenomenon contributes in further decreasing the size of the WebP image. It then only encodes the difference between the actual values and predictions. The lossy WebP algorithm uses predictive encoding to predict the values of colors of it's neighboring pixels. It was initially released on 30 September 2010 and is an open format. Google is developing both the format and WebP related software under the BSD license. The WebP format is a new image format from Google which employs both lossy (a trade-off between quality and size) as well as lossless (reduction in size with no compromise in quality) compression techniques.
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