How to save webp as jpg

Save webP as PNG or JPEG (Converter) by jscher2000

Convert any image (WebP, AVIF, etc.) to PNG or JPEG (with choice of quality) for downloading. Right-click context menu calls up format options overlaid on the image. Read the detailed description and check the screenshots for more info.

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This extension allows converting from WebP (or any other format) to PNG or JPEG. There also is a button to re-request the image masquerading as Internet Explorer 11 (you might need to click it a second time because Firefox likes to serve the cached iamge), and a button to send animated WebP images to ezgif.com for conversion to animated GIFs.

If you want to discourage sites from sending webP format images at all, especially if you are having trouble saving GIFv files, check out my other extension: Don’t «Accept» image/webp.

Configuring the context menu item

These are the default actions, but you can switch them around to fit your needs (on the Options panel):

* Click «Save webP as. » to show format/quality buttons overlaid on the image
* Shift+click «Save webP as. » to save in PNG format
* Ctrl+click «Save webP as. » to save in JPEG format at 92% quality (on Mac, use Command+click)

Custom save folders

Extensions can only save under your Downloads folder, but you can set up date or site folders to help keep organized.

Troubleshooting

The button bar may not appear and images may not be saved if scripts are blocked from running in the page (for example, by the NoScript extension).

Notes

I regret having to use the «All sites» permission, but most images these days load from a different server, and that creates a cross-site access problem (canvas taint) that often blocks the extension from saving unless it has permission in advance. In a future release, I will try to offer a different approach that uses fewer privileges.

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How to Save Google’s WEBP Images as JPEG or PNG

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Google’s WEBP image format is pretty cool: its unique compression systems can display images at approximately two-thirds the size of the same image rendered in JPEG or PNG format.

Despite years of development, being prominently featured in Google products, and experiencing widespread adoption, WEBP still isn’t fully supported by some of the most common image tools around, like Microsoft’s Photos app — though it is supported by the older Windows Photo Viewer. Here’s how to save a WEBP image in a more common format.

Using Microsoft Edge’s Internet Explorer Mode

First, you need to make sure that you have Edge’s Internet Explorer mode enabled.

Head to a webpage that contains a WEBP image, highlight the URL, right-click it, then click on “Copy.”

Fire up Edge, right-click the address bar, click “Paste,” and then hit Enter.

Then click on the three dots in the top right corner to open the “Settings and More” menu.

Look through the options and click “Reload in Internet Explorer Mode” — it’ll be near the bottom.

If the website does the proper server-side conversion, the page will look the same, but this time all images will be in either JPEG or PNG format.

Right-click the image, then click “Save Picture As.”

Navigate to a destination folder, then click “Save,” and your image will download to that folder.

That’s it. Navigate to the image and open or edit like you would any other JPEG.

Using MS Paint

If you use Windows 10 or Windows 11, you can download a WEBP image to your hard drive and use MS Paint to open it.

Why not utilize a piece of software already on your PC to convert any images you have? Paint converts WEBP into JPEG, GIF, BMP, TIFF, and a few other formats as well, without having to download any extra software.

Right-click on the image, then click Open With > Paint if it’s not set to open WEBP files by default.

Once you open the image in Paint, click File > Save As, then choose a format from the list available.

Note: Paint on Windows 10 looks fairly different, but the options are the same.

Choose a destination for the file, then click “Save.”

Once your image is finished converting, it will appear in the folder you saved it.

Using the Command Line

If you feel more comfortable behind the command line, Google offers up the utilities to encode, decode, and view WEBP on Linux, Windows, and Mac OS X. This is a bit of an advanced method that’s great for integrating into programs and website, but if you want to learn how to use a command line tool, feel free to follow along.

Depending on your OS, use the appropriate link above to download the libraries, then extract the files to your computer. We’ll be using the Windows PowerShell, but it should work identically on all systems.

Notice how we specified the file extension for the output image? The decoder converts images into other formats, so we need to be specific. We used PNG in this example, but it can output into TIFF, BMP, and a few other when using other switches. The full documentation can is on the Google WEBP website.

Tip: If you plan on using this tool often, then you might want to consider adding the encoder, decoder, and viewer executables to your system’s path, for easier access down the road. This makes it so you don’t have to be in the same directory as the executables when you want to run them from the command line from any folder.

After the tool converts and saves the image, you can navigate to the output file’s location, and open it with any program you want.

Using an Online Conversion Tool

If you’d instead prefer to use a website to change a WEBP image into another format, there are tons of sites offering free online conversion tools to do this. They handle everything server-side, meaning you don’t have to download and install any software or learn command line tools.

As with any online file conversion tool, you shouldn’t upload any sort of sensitive or confidential file. if you’re concerned someone else might see it—for example, if it’s an image of a confidential document—it’s better to just work with the file on your own computer.

For the purpose of this guide, we’ll use Zamzar online file conversion tool. It’s completely free to use and the service says the uploaded file is deleted from the server within 24 hours. If you want to convert more than the five free concurrent conversions, it offers paid subscriptions as well.

Head to the Zamzar website, click “Upload,” select the file you want to convert, then click “Open.” Alternatively, just drag and drop the files into the browser tab from your computer.

Next, click “Choose Format, and from the drop-down menu, choose a supported format to convert into.

Click “Convert Now.”

Depending on the size of the file, the conversion should only take a few seconds. After the conversion, you’ll be redirected to the download page, then click the “Download” button to start the download.

It’ll automatically be saved to your default download location unless your browser prompts you for a download folder location every time.

To view the image, head to the folder where you saved it and open it with your favorite image viewer.

Using a Special URL Trick

As you might expect, Google uses its WEBP images for all products and services on the Google Play Store. In some situations, you can make a slight tweak to the URL of an image to display in another format. While this method doesn’t work on all websites, if you need to quickly force Google Play Store to convert an image for you, this neat little trick could save you some time.

Open Chrome, Microsoft Edge, Safari, or Opera — almost any browser that supports WEBP image display. Head to a site that uses WEBP images for bandwidth saving, like any of the app listings on play.google.com.

Right-click or long-press one of the images, and then click the “Open Image in New Tab” option. The WEBP image then gets its own tab all to itself, and the URL at the top of that tab is a link directly to the image asset — without rendering anything else on the page.

Click the URL bar, delete the last three characters in the address (the “-rw”), and then press “Enter.” The same image will be displayed again, but this time it’s rendered in its original format, usually JPEG or PNG. Right-click or long-press the image, and then select the “Save image as” option. That downloads it in the original format — just like any other file.

You might be left wondering, “Isn’t there an easier way to do this?” There is — as with most things related to browsers, the solution is a browser extension. There are plenty of extensions out there that’ll automatically handle the conversion of WEBP files into any other image format you like, but you probably shouldn’t use them. Browser extensions are a privacy nightmare, and you should avoid using them whenever they’re not strictly necessary.

Google’s proprietary image format WEBP is arguably better than the standard JPG or PNG format. It creates a much smaller file size than JPG and still supports the transparency feature of PNG without much loss in quality. It is being used by many websites today, including YouTube, Google Play Store, and Facebook Android app.

As ideal as it may be, it is still not supported by many image editors and online submission forms. I personally have to deal with WEBP images often in my work, and so I have found many ways to save WEBP images to JPG or PNG with each having its own advantage. In this post, I am going to share my findings with you.

WebP, or unofficially pronounced as weppy, is an image format introduced by Google Developers around 5 years ago. Read more

1. Edit image URL

This is probably the best manual method to save WEBP images as PNG or JPG. WEBP images saved online are available in both WEBP and JPG/PNG formats, as some of the browsers like Firefox and Safari don’t support WEBP. So in those browsers, the JPG or PNG image is loaded instead. With a simple URL tweak, you can load the JPG or PNG format instead of the WEBP. Here’s how:

2. Use «Save Image As PNG» Chrome extension

On Google Chrome, you can use a handy extension called Save Image As PNG that adds an option in the context menu to download WEBP images as PNG.

Note: Opera users can also use this extension by installing the Download Chrome Extension. This extension will allow you to install most Chrome extensions in Opera, including Save Image As PNG.

Unfortunately, this extension will only let you save images in PNG format. If you want to save in JPG format, you’ll have to convert the PNG format to JPG format using an image converter or use a different method in this list.

3. Use an unsupported browser

Currently, WEBP format is only supported by Google Chrome and Opera. And as I said before, on websites both the WEBP and JPG/PNG formats are uploaded for an image to ensure all the browsers can open it. You can simply use an unsupported browser to load the image and it will be loaded in JPG or PNG format.

You can use any browser you like, including Firefox, Safari, Internet Explorer, and Microsoft Edge. Save the image as you normally do and you will see it will be in JPG or PNG format.

4. Spoof user agent

Following up to the above method, you don’t necessarily have to switch browsers to download WEBP images in JPG/PNG format. You can simply spoof user agent of your Chrome or Opera browser so the website will think you are browsing from an unsupported browser and load JPG or PNG image instead of WEBP.

For this purpose, I’ll recommend you to use the extension User-Agent Switcher for Chrome as it’s quick and easy.

5. Use an online image converter

In case you already have WEBP images on your PC, you can convert them in JPG or PNG format as well. This will also be useful if you don’t want to follow extra steps in the above methods, but instead download all the WEBP images and then convert in bulk.

For quick conversions without any need of an extra software, an online converter is a good option. For that, Zamzar is a reliable image converter that supports WEBP conversion and is free to use. However, you can only convert 10 images concurrently.

The images will upload and the converted images will be sent to you via email. You can repeat the process to convert as many images as you like. If Zamzar doesn’t interest you, then you can also use cloudconvert. It offers fast on-site conversion, but it’s only limited to 25 conversions/day for free (registered users).

6. Use a desktop image converter

If an online conversion isn’t your thing, then a desktop image converter app would be a great solution. Although there are many, but I personally like XnConverter as it is completely free and comes with a plethora of features.

XnConverter is available for Windows, macOS and Linux, and lets you convert unlimited images in bulk. Let’s see how you can use it to convert WEBP images to JPG or PNG:

Summary

All of the above methods will help your save WEBP images in JPG or PNG format without any problem. For quick downloads, I prefer using Save Image As PNG Chrome extension in my Opera browser. Although many times I receive WEBP files as email attachments, and XnConverter does a fine job of quickly converting them to JPG.

4 Ways To Save WebP Files in JPG or PNG Format

Often face trouble loading WebP image format on your PC? That’s because your Microsoft Windows doesn’t have built-in support for the Google’s developed WebP image extension. Google introduced the imaging format back in 2010 with a motive to get a smaller compressed file without affecting image quality, but it still hasn’t been adopted widely.

If you are one of those who want their images in JPG and PNG format, here are a few tricks you can use to convert the WebP image to any other desired image format.

1. Download IrfanView

Further, you can add a third-party application on your PC, to convert your WebP image to JPG or PNG format. Well, there are multiple applications you could use, but the one that we are recommending is IrfanView. Download and install the application on your PC.

Save the WebP image>open the image with InfranView>click on the Floppy Disk Icon, a window of save option will pop-up where you can adjust the size of the image and save the image in either JPG or PNG extension.

2. Online Conversion

There are thousands of website that can do this online without necessitating a third-party software, and one of them is the Convertio. To convert your file go to Convertio website, their homepage will give you the option to either add the image you want to convert or simply, drag and drop option. ‘Choose the format’ you want to convert your file to and click on ‘Convert’ and ‘Download’.

3. Add Save Image Extension

The easy way would be to add an extension, Save Image As: JPEG, PNG, WebP, Base64, to your chrome browser. This extension will allow you to download the image directly as the JPG or PNG file, beforehand.

Once you have added the extension, ‘right click’ on the WebP image you want to download>roll over the ‘Save Image as Type’>choose the extension you want to save your file with.

4. Use MS Paint

Another option is to open the WebP file from the browser and pasting it on the MS Paint. Now, staying on the MS Paint, click on File (on the top-left corner) and select Save As option. The save as option will give you the choice to save the image in JPG, BMP, PNG, GIF and many other formats.

Как сохранить WEBP в формате JPEG или PNG

Новый формат изображения WEBP в Google довольно крут: его уникальные системы сжатия могут отображать изображения примерно на две трети размера одного и того же изображения в формате JPEG или PNG.

Но, несмотря на шесть лет развития, и значительную популярность в продуктах Google, он по-прежнему не поддерживается некоторыми из наиболее распространенных инструментов для создания и просмотра изображений. Windows в приложении по умолчанию для просмотра фотографий, например, не может открыть этот формат. Так же Word и многие другие не могут использовать для вставки в документ. Можно, конечно, конвертировать одним из этих инструментов, но есть путь проще.

Как сохранить изображение WEBP в более общем формате?

Откройте браузер Chrome, Яндекс или Opera на любой платформе — только эти два основных браузера, которые поддерживают отображение изображений WEBP. Перейдите на сайт, который использует изображения WEBP, все картинки в play.google.com размещены в экономичном формате.

Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши или долго нажмите одно из изображений и нажмите кнопку «Открыть изображение в новой вкладке», получится картинка WEBP со своим URL-адресом в верхней части этой вкладки. Эта ссылка непосредственно на объект изображения, которую вы можете отредактировать и одновременно изменить формат файла. Это почти чудо, которое может браузер.

Щелкните по строке URL, удалите последние три символа в адресе («-rw»), а затем нажмите «Ввод». То же изображение будет отображаться снова, но на этот раз оно отображается в исходном формате, обычно JPEG или PNG.

Щелкните правой кнопкой мыши или долго нажмите изображение, а затем выберите опцию «Сохранить изображение как». Что сохранит его в исходном формате — как и любой другой файл.

Способ в новой вкладке

Просто открывайте картинку в новой вкладке и при сохранении меняйте ее расширение с .webp на .png или .jpg — покажу на примере Авито.

С помощью расширения для Chrome

Добавляем кнопку в контекстное меню сохранит в PNG или Jpeg одним кликом сохраняем картинки. Save image as Type отличное расширение для браузера, просто работает, с присваиванием имен некоторым файлам бывает проблема с «абракадаброй», но это меньшее из зол.