Introducing Iris-WebP, a better WebP encoder: https://halide.cx/iris/index.html
Iris offers up to >20% better compression than libwebp, and trades blows with libaom for AVIF.
My goal is to build an image-first encoder ecosystem for the modern Web, so that new web image codecs aren't generally superfluous.
Oh, I do plenty of the pre-processing. Peruse the #LossyPNG hashtag, it's probably 100% me.
But Amiga HAM would be a fun hobby-horse.
I do use #WebP for the fediverse now, as it's supported by #GoToSocial natively, but I think #AVIF is actually considerably better.
Try a few test images on your own and see how it fares. I usually do something like:
convert image.png -quality 20 image.webp
and then attempt to create an image of nearly the same size in JPEG and AVIF for comparison.
convert image.png -quality {trial-and-error} image.avifconvert image.png -quality {trial-and-error} image.jpeg
The AVIF is almost always better looking, and the JPEG is almost always a total mosaic. ;)
https://rldane.space/the-case-for-avif.html
P.S., yes, you can name JPEGs .jpeg. It's not 1993 anymore. :P
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I am wholeheartedly against consuming media storage.
#LossyPNG and #WebP all the things. No animated GIF or video. Use words ya hosers. ;)
(WebP only until #GtS decides to support #AVIF, which it seriously needs to do)
Just FYI, nsxiv, imv, and swayimg all support AVIF as well, although imv did oddly have a glitch with one of the images I tested it with. I'd never seen that happen before.
According to some people I've spoken with, JPEG is still king for high-fidelity images and minimizing loss upon re-compression, but AVIF just totally whips the llama's posterior when it comes to relatively high fidelity at crazy low file sizes (high compression).
AVIF is often noticeably better quality than #WebP at the same (low) file size and resolution, and parsecs beyond what JPEG can do with high compression factors.
If only the fediverse supported it!!! :(
We barely have WebP support (mostly on #GtS, maybe #snac (haven't tried it)), not on #Mastodon.
I love it when people ask. XD
I am:
So, I almost never post videos, and when I post pictures, I either post as very compressed #WebP (not my favorite image format, but it's the best format for low-fidelity/high-compression images that #GoToSocial supports), or "lossy"-compressed PNGs.
I have a utility on my phone (Image Toolbox) that can reduce PNG files by reducing the number of colors, but it's not great at picking the colors.
When I have the time and presence of mind to do so, I will take the PNG into GIMP and either use its conversion function to reduce the number of colors (to something like 32 or maybe 64, possibly as low as 4 or 8), or (like in the above case) I'll actually hand-select the important colors in the image and tell GIMP to reduce the image to just those colors.
In this case, the original screenshot PNG was 83KiB, which I managed to bring down to 16KiB through the manual color reduction process (down to just 6 colors).
If you peruse the #LossyPNG hashtag, there are plenty of examples. Some are obviously reduced (and are reminiscent of graphics on 16 bit machines like the #Amiga or #AtariST), but some look quite good for how severely reduced they were.
I kinda love the fact that this 2k resolution photo looks like it was recorded on an ancient VHS tape at ESLP (extra super long play) speeds.
#WebP is horrible, and also amazing. 
And look, it's a TWO KAY image that takes up the same amount of space as the original macintosh's screenbuffer (512x342 mono)! 
(Okay, 860 bytes more)
If you're hosting Immich on a spare computer, using an old external disk drive, reduce your storage requirements by converting your Jpeg files to webp. Keep the .jpg extension too! You can probably get them down to about half the size of a Jpeg.
This is really only if you're exporting files from elsewhere to Immich. I export from Lightroom Classic. Don't ever go touch your original files!
for i in *.jpg
do
cwebp -metadata all "$i" -q 70 -m 6 -o out.tmp
mv out.tmp "$i"
done
Welp, another notch in the Linux better than Windows column. Linux Mint natively can load webp files. Haven't tried to see if they will work as wallpapers yet, but still. That's nice. Windows 10 has a panic attack.
Wonder if it'll load heic files.
it's 2024 and #Mastodon doesn't support .webp animations and that's how I know it's ngmi
画像を #WebP に変換するって、既存のコマンドラインツールもいくつか存在する気がしたけど、それと何がちがうのかな（ドラッグアンドドロップできる、みたいなこと？
Charles Wiltgen [Threads]: "Good news, web developers! You can finally stop using WebP!"
I would literally pay money to not have Firefox save images as .webp format.
Hi all,
Is there a free app out there for Windows for viewing/printing/converting HEIC and WebP images? People want these printed at work and they do NOT play nicely with Windows.
It has to be free and not require altering registries as I'm on a work computer. FOSS would be a bonus.
I'm on Win10 FWIW.
Thanks.
#Google reckons that it can improve #JPEG with #Jpegli, a new #encoder and #decoder #library that promises to be highly compatible with JPEG.
Jpegli uses heuristics developed for #JPEGXL, making it more of a JPEG XL successor (or improvement). Compared to JPEG it offers a higher #compression ratio, 10+-bit support which should reduce issues like banding. Jpegli #images are said to be compatible with existing JPEG decoders, much like #JPEGXT and XL
https://hackaday.com/2024/04/07/jpegli-googles-better-jpeg-and-possible-death-knell-for-webp/
とか？
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