WebP is an image type developed by Google. It is designed to reduce the size of images while maintaining their quality, making them smaller and faster to load.
By using WebP, websites can save up to 25-35% of file size compared to other popular formats such as JPEG and PNG. It is also supported by most major web browsers, including Google Chrome, Firefox and Edge. This makes an ideal file type for websites This makes the website load faster administrators use it a lot nowadays.
If you save an image to your computer via the Google Chrome browser and the website offers WebP as an image, the new image is saved as WebP on your computer.
The WebP file type is ideal for websites, but for photos, images, backgrounds, etc., JPG, JPEG or PNG is still the standard.
This article shows you how to easily save a WebP to your computer as a JPG, JPEG, PNG or other image type.
Google Chrome saves image as WebP? Try this!
If you have already saved WebP files, you can use them Convert WebP files to another image type.
If you have a WebP image want to save if another image type, then right-click on the website image. Then click on “Save image as” in the menu.
In the “Save As” dialog, change “Save As” to “All Files (*.*). After this, change the file name extension to the desired image type.
Below is an example.
- Image.webp to Image.JPG
- Image.webp to Image.PNG (for images with a transparent background).
- Image.webp to Image.JPEG
You will now see the image saved in the desired image type on your computer.
To make things even easier, there is also a browser extension available for Google Chrome that can save an image directly to your computer in the desired image type.
Download the “Save image as type” extension in the Google Chrome WebStore.
If you right-click on a WebP image that you want to save to your computer, you will see an additional context menu.
This “Save image as type” menu provides three additional options to save the image as a JPG, PNG or WebP file type on your computer. If you choose an image type, you do not have to keep changing the extension.
Optional: Is this extension not what you are looking for? Then you can use the remove extension from Google Chrome.
Read also the 5 best extensions for taking a screenshot with Google Chrome.
I hope this helped you. Thank you for reading!