Today’s update is now available on the Mac App Store and is free for all existing Pixelmator Pro users. File size improvementsįinally, both lossless and lossy compressed WebP images are around 25% smaller than comparable PNGs and JPEGs of the same quality.* Pretty great for speeding up loading times!Īlthough not all major web browsers support WebP just yet (Safari support is missing), most of them do and thanks to WebP support in Pixelmator Pro, you’re free to experiment and see for yourself whether you’d like to switch to WebP for certain images. What’s more, unique to WebP, it supports both transparency and lossy compression at the same time, something that neither JPEG nor PNG can do. So once again, WebP combines the benefits of both primary web image formats into one. Right now, if you’d like to save with transparency, you have to use PNG as JPEG doesn’t support it. Lossy compression reduces the size of an image with some potentially “unnecessary” data being discarded or lost, hence the term lossy.Īnother great thing about WebP is that it supports transparency. Lossless compression is when you reduce the size of an image with no data (i.e. What’s that? Well, compression refers to reducing the size of an image. One reason for WebP’s promise is that it offers both lossless and lossy compression. A Quick Look plug-in so you can preview WebP images in the FinderĪwesome! If you’re not too familiar with it, you might be wondering - what is WebP and why is it such an interesting format? Well, it’s one of the candidates to be the next-gen format for displaying images on the web thanks to some improvements over the two main existing formats, JPEG and PNG.Transparency (for both lossless and lossy compressed images).Lossless compression and lossy compression with adjustable quality.Support for both opening and exporting WebP images.It’s pretty extensive and we’ve added a few different things: First, a little about WebP support in Pixelmator Pro itself.
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