Work with WebP Files

WebP is a modern and widespread image file format to showcase high-quality images without affecting website performance. This format is supported by most of the web browsers.

In DsImaging, you can load WebP images using Load method of the GcBitmap class wherein you can load images from file, stream and byte arrays. You can also load an image by using constructor of the GcBitmap class. For details about loading images, see Load Image.

To save an image to the WebP format, you can use SaveAsWebp method of the GcBitmap class.

// Converting a JPG image to WEBP format
using var bmp = new GcBitmap();
bmp.Load("image.jpg");
bmp.SaveAsWebp("image.webp", null, false, 50);

Limitations

• Saving an image with transparency in lossy WebP format may result in a relatively large image file.

• Saving an image to lossless WebP format using high quality encoding may result in slow performance.