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Webp lossy is better (compresses more with higher quality image results) than jpeg at everything except smooth gradients at high quality settings according to t
by Sammi 1mo ago
Webp lossy is better (compresses more with higher quality image results) than jpeg at everything except smooth gradients at high quality settings according to the research I remember doing. Webp lossy can't seem to get rid of banding until you go ultra high quality settings. Jpeg can show blue skies without banding at much more reasonable quality settings. So webp is better at anything where smaller files is preferred, like all website usage. Jpeg is better for long term storage of very high quality lossy compressed images.
I chose webp for long term storage of scanned documents in our SaaS product, as size reduction was more important than no banding.
Also webp has excellent support in modern software and operating systems. So that's not a drawback any more. JpegXL will be the best of all worlds choice in a few years when software support is good.
- Implicated 1mo ago> JpegXL will be the best of all worlds choice in a few years when software support is good. Where is the software support lacking other than the browsers at this point?
- _bent 1mo agoThe encoder currently isn't using a lot of format features like curves or layers (which would partially also require deeper integration in for example Photoshop to pass such information to the encoder).
- HappMacDonald 1mo agoFile explorer support, thumbnails, local image viewers and editors, import into other media software like slideshows, video editors, 3d modeling software, etc etc.
- spider-mario 1mo agomacOS and Windows’ respective file explorers and built-in image viewers both support it, as do Photoshop, GIMP, Krita and a few more. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_software_support https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JPEG_XL#Official_software_supp...
- socalgal2 1mo agoI suspect there are a few 10s of thousands of websites that still only accept Jpeg (as a user upload). Some accept PNG. Few accept HEIF, almost none accept JPEG-XL
- Sammi 1mo agoThis is probably going to be the longest tail of them all. I only accept webp, jpg, and png atm in my SaaS product. I should probably add support for HEIF right now at least. All iPhones are using that, so it's hard to get around it.