The two most common problems are allowing WebP image uploads and generating previews in the media library. Using WebP images in WordPressĪs of WordPress 5.5, it still doesn’t support WebP image format within the media library out of the box. An ideal example would be TIFF which is a Lossless image format popularly used in print media. TIP: A web image should be encoded at 72dpi while print media files require 300dpi. New Web Features-Optimize images for the Web in GIF, JPEG, and PNG file format, create background transparency and background matting, and preview and control. This soon changed with JPEG/PNG image formats which offered more color depth and compression with better image quality, factored in with DPI (Dots per inch) to produce web and print media compatible images. The Scale Styles option is turned on and off from inside the gear menu in the upper right corner of the dialog box. Resizing the dialog box resizes the preview window. a GIF image format which uses standard 256 color palette or custom palettes using 8-bit color depth has poor image quality. In addition, the Photoshop Image Size dialog box has been updated for ease of use: A window displays the preview image from the resizing parameters. In layman terms, more bits mean better color gamut and image quality with a trade-off on image size. The anatomy of image compression is based on Lossy and Lossless (as the name suggests) algorithms where images can be contained within 8/16/24/32 bit color depth. WebP can produce stunning results over conventional JPEG/PNG formats which is now widely used across the web development landscape. Adobe Photoshop 6.0 was released in September 2000, around twenty months after the release of Photoshop 5.5. This allowed designers to easily remove an image from its background. Fact: Photoshop 5.5 was the first version of Photoshop to feature the Extract filter. WebP is a new format developed by Google that is gaining popularity because of its compression ratio, image quality, file size and alpha channel support.Īs the name derives its roots from WebM (Web Media Format) which commonly uses VP8/VP9 compression algorithm to achieve web optimized videos, the same algorithm is employed in WebP image formats. It shared the same codename as Photoshop 5.0. The most common image formats on the web are: JPEG, GIF, and PNG.
Specifically, we will cover how to convert jpg/png images to webp, how to plan for browser support and fallback (polyfills) and how to deliver these WebP Images over a CDN. Product: Adobe Photoshop 5.5 Company: Adobe Website: Estimated Street Price: Full Version 609 (Reviewed) - Upgrade 129 (after rebate) to owners of both Photoshop 5.0 and ImageReady 1.0, and 199 (after rebate) to owners of 4.0 and previous versions of Photoshop Review By: Clifford Palmer, Jr.