The pictures downloaded from WeChat cannot be Photoshopped! Teach you how to make PS support WebP

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Many friends have found that the pictures downloaded from WeChat official accounts cannot be opened with PS! What is going on? In fact, this is due to incompatible picture formats.

The images on WeChat official account pages use the new WebP format. Compared with the well-known JPG format, WebP has better image quality and is smaller in size.

However, this emerging image format has objective compatibility issues. For example, many versions of Photoshop do not support opening it.

The image format of WeChat public account articles is WebP

PS is not compatible with WebP in most cases

How can we enable PS to open WebP for editing? Today, I will share two ideas with you.

Make PS support WebP format

Although Photoshop is the most famous photo editing software in the industry, its support for WebP is definitely not advanced.

It was not until the recently released Photoshop 23.2 that Adobe officially added WebP support to PS. What about previous versions? In fact, it can be achieved through the third-party plug-in "WebPShop".

WebPShop is an open source PS plug-in that supports PS on Windows and macOS platforms, but only supports 64-bit versions. After downloading the corresponding version of WebPShop, we can get a PS plug-in file with the suffix ".8bi".

To install this plugin, just put the file into the corresponding directory. The directories for Windows and macOS are as follows:

Windows:

C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CC

macOS:

/Library/Application Support/Adobe/Plug-Ins/CC

Note that the last "CC" path corresponds to your PS version. For example, if you installed Photoshop CS6, the Windows directory should be "C:\Program Files\Common Files\Adobe\Plug-Ins\CS6".

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After that, restart PS and it will support WebP images. WebPShop provides very complete WebP format support for PS. Whether it is opening and editing WebP images in PS, or saving other images as WebP format, it is not a problem.

Save WebP as JPG/PNG

If you don't want to install the PS plug-in, there are other ways.

WeChat official account articles can be opened using a browser. At this time, we can use the browser's extension tool to save WebP images to other common formats, such as JPEG, PNG, etc. Let's take Chrome as an example.

On Chrome, install a tool called "Save Image as JPG/PNG/WebP". Its function is as its name suggests. You can install it in the Chrome store or by clicking the link below.

Save the image as JPG/PNG/WebP: Click here to enter the Chrome store to download

After installing this extension, you can save the image in jpg or png format by right-clicking on it. Note that the jpg image saved by this extension has the suffix jfif, which is a derivative format of jpg and has good compatibility. You can use it with confidence.

After installing the extension, you can save WebP as jpg or png

In addition to saving WebP images as jpg and png, this extension can also save other images in Webp format. So whether you want to make the image more compatible or want to use a more advanced image format, this extension can help you.

Summarize

In general, as a relatively new image format, WebP's current compatibility is indeed not ideal. If you want to modify WebP images in PS, you might as well try the method in this article.

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