karl-sjogren / Shorthand.ImageSharp.WebP

Adds a WebP format for ImageSharp. Only for encoding images so far.

Shorthand.ImageSharp.WebP

Adds support for encoding WebP images using libwebp to ImageSharp.

Why is this needed?

When ImageSharp 2.x encodes transparent images with compression, the file size is larger then even doing lossless webp encoding. This was fixed in ImageSharp 3.x, but with the new license this isn't feasible to all projects. So this makes it possible to encode transparent WebP images properly on ImageSharp 2.0.

Issue: SixLabors/ImageSharp#2332

Usage

If running or deploying on Linux you need to install libwebp-dev.

sudo apt-get update -y && sudo apt-get install -y libwebp-dev

Sample images from Pexels, https://www.pexels.com/sv-se/license/ or https://www.pexels.com/sv-se/creative-commons-images/.

https://www.pexels.com/sv-se/@pok-rie-33563 https://www.pexels.com/sv-se/@naushil-ansari-151720