Dealing with WebP

• March 15, 2013
• Development  

WebP is a good image format for compressing images. There are two good application to convert to WebP.

WebP

Install

sudo aptitude install webp

Convert:

cwebp -q 80 image.png -o image.webp

Reconvert:

dwebp image.webp -o image.png

ImageMagick

ImageMagick is an powerful application for managing images (Not just for converting).

Install

sudo aptitude install imageMagick

Convert

convert image.png -quality 80 -define webp:lossless=true image.webp

References:

• Webp
• ImageMagick