Addressing early criticisms, Google finalizes how its image file format will handle metadata and color profiles. Also new: faster encoding and animation support. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from ...

Google has introduced a new image format to help speed up the performance of websites. WebP (pronounced “weppy”) reduces the file size of images by 40 percent, the company claims. Images make up 65 ...

Web developers and graphic artists who want to try the data-saving graphics format now have two choices of open-source plug-ins for Photoshop. Stephen Shankland worked at CNET from 1998 to 2024 and ...

The WebP image format developed by Google is highly efficient in terms of compression and can display images at a reduced size of around 33% compared to formats like JPEG or PNG. Despite being in use ...

The WebP image format developed by Google for the past eight years has found a home this week in Microsoft's Edge browser, and will also be added in Firefox next year. WebP is a lossy and lossless ...