WebP was introduced in 2010. It wasn't sexy. It was utilitarian: a modern image format that provided superior lossless and lossy compression for web images, beating JPEG and PNG by 25-35% file size. By the mid-2010s, WebP was everywhere—WordPress, Chrome, CDNs, and eventually Safari. It became the default format for the modern web.
But CS6, frozen in 2012 amber, never learned the language.
In twenty years, when Creative Cloud is a memory (or a monthly fee larger than a mortgage), and some historian tries to open a 2020s WebP archive on a vintage CS6 machine, this tiny 8BI file will be a Rosetta Stone. It will be proof that users—not corporations—are the true stewards of software longevity.
Standard WebP plugins do not support animation. For animated WebP, you need specialized software or a different script.
This is inefficient, compromises metadata, and often results in generational quality loss. The solution is a direct .