Dear @firefox : Please stop saving images as webp when I drag them out of the browser. Forever stop that. Even if they are webp originally, just give me a setting to auto-convert them to JPEG. When I get a webp file the first thing I have to do is convert it manually if I’m going to do *anything* with it.

  • Hadriscus
    6·
    5 months ago

    PNG is good only because it’s widely supported. It only has 8bit per channel, no support for arbitrary channels, has subpar reading and writing performance. For lossless purposes I suggest TIFF, for packing data OpenEXR is best and JPEG-XL is very promising but has limited support right now

    Here is an article (centered on a film use case) https://www.provideocoalition.com/fight-of-the-file-formats-pngs-or-exrs/

    • sugar_in_your_tea@sh.itjust.works
      6·
      5 months ago

      Compatibility is really important, which is what this post is all about. In a discussion about automatic conversion, PNG should be on the table.

    • Valmond@lemmy.world
      2·
      5 months ago

      What are you guys even doing with your images?

      I use png or jpg depending on what I want and that’s about it.

      • Hadriscus
        3·
        5 months ago

        Yea me too… given the state of support for modern formats