WPV (Win Photo Viewer) can't recognize the "webp" format correctly, it can't determine its colour profile. Whenever you open a "webp" image with WPV it has no assigned colour profile. Google (Picasa) is a webp's parent! Picasa knows its native image format (webp) and assigns the correct colour profile to it (usually sRGB). The image is darker because it has no colour profile assigned to it (in WPV). Save it as a JPG (in a photo editor app like th new Paint), and it would be normal in WPV.
Every time I want to edit an image (saved from 11F) and re-upload it to the forum, I have a problem. It saves images as PNG and doesn't open in photo editors like Ps (cause its original format is webp, and PNG is just a name at the end of it!). We have to save it again as webp or jpg... and open it in Ps. Or change its extension to webp while saving from the webpage, to be recognizable in Ps.
That will be due to the on-the-fly webp conversion of suitable images by our CDN provider for faster page loads.
Honestly, I don't care what you think of the image quality and if you need to convert it, it's all about page load speed and if I think they look good enough for their purpose - which I do.
Webp Image Extensions - Microsoft Apps
The WebP Image Extension will enable you to view WebP images in the Windows 10 Microsoft Edge browser. WebP is a modern image format that provides lossless and lossy compression for smaller, richer images on the web.apps.microsoft.com
HEIF Image Extensions - Microsoft Apps
The HEIF Image Extension enables Windows 10 devices to read and write files that use the High Efficiency Image File (HEIF) format. Such files can have a .heic or .heif file extension. Images that are stored in HEIF files that have the .heic file extension are compressed using the HEVC format...apps.microsoft.com
VP9 Video Extensions - Microsoft Apps
Play VP9 videos in any video app on your Windows 10 device. VP9 is a popular video codec for streaming over the internet. These VP9 Video Extensions are designed to take advantage of hardware capabilities on newer devices. For devices that don’t have hardware support for VP9 videos, software...apps.microsoft.com
AV1 Video Extension - Microsoft Apps
Play AV1 videos in your favorite video app on your Windows 10 device. This extension helps video apps installed on Windows 10 play videos that have been encoded using the AV1 video coding standard developed by the Alliance for Open Media.apps.microsoft.com
Web Media Extensions - Microsoft Apps
The Web Media Extensions package extends Microsoft Edge and Windows 10 to support open source formats commonly encountered on the web. By installing this Media Extension package, users will be able to natively play content delivered in the OGG container or encoded using the Vorbis or Theora...apps.microsoft.com
OpenCL™, OpenGL®, and Vulkan® Compatibility Pack - Free download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
This compatibility pack allows more of your favorite OpenCL™, OpenGL®, and Vulkan® apps to run on a Windows 10 or Windows 11 PC that doesn't have these hardware drivers installed by default. If a DirectX 12 driver is installed, supported apps will run with hardware acceleration for better...apps.microsoft.comMS store never fails to install bloatware, but it fails to install previously installed libraries.
HEVC Video Extensions - Download and install on Windows | Microsoft Store
Play High Efficiency Video Coding (HEVC) videos in any video app on your Windows 10 device. These extensions are designed to take advantage of hardware capabilities on some newer devices— including those with an Intel 7th Generation Core processor and newer GPU to support 4K and Ultra HD...apps.microsoft.com
Stop downloading images from Google!!!
You can add slide show to the context menu using the following tutorial:
Add Slide Show Context Menu in Windows 11
This tutorial will show you how to add or remove the Slide show context menu for image files for all users in Windows 10 and Windows 11. You can add Slide show to the context menu of image files to allow you to view selected image files as a slide show. While the slide show is playing, you can...www.elevenforum.com
and it works with webp images as well as .jpg etc.
Change the extension to JPG, then open it with the Photos app (or Snipping Tool) and Save it as JPG again!
Have a look at this one:
Open WEBP formatted files in PHOTOS
Hi Alibi. In your post you refer to Win10. Remember I have Win11
It's just a simple little trick that works most of the time (for pictures anyway). It's also a fairly popular "conversion" method, as you can just batch rename multiple files at once, and, if it turns out that the pic(s) get(s) darkened as a result from this, then you can still open the webp file(s) in MS Paint and save it/them as .jpg to work around that problem. I don't download webp files that often anyway, but if you do, then I can understand that you probably need a better solution.
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