Superior in both Lossless compression, and Lossy compression, webp is the new image format by google
Already supported by all web browsers *(that i have tested it with), webP is indeed a promising format, so let us get to compressing our images
I have a big bunch of bitmaps that my scanner spits out (To avoid lossy jpeg compression the scanner’s driver produces), and i need them converted to lossless webp to save space (the first image I compressed went from 552MB bitmap to 183), that is 33% of the original size
So, under linux, this is how i would convert all BMPs into webp images, I think it is exectly the same on windows
on the command line, the command for compressing one image looks like
cwebp -lossless 00.bmp -o 00.webp
Now, the next step is to run them in a batch, copy the following text into a file and name it with the extension