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wmf on April 15, 2012 | parent | context | favorite | on: WebP - A new image format for the Web (by Google)

Did you try -q 100? That might be an idiom for lossless.

rorrr on April 15, 2012 [–]

I did, and it produced a huge .webp file, 6.7 times larger than the original PNG.

salmanapk on April 15, 2012 | [–]

rtfm? Check the examples at the bottom: https://developers.google.com/speed/webp/docs/cwebp

rorrr on April 16, 2012 | | [–]

Did you read that link yourself?

The word "lossless" isn't even on that page. I tried setting the highest quality, but that just produces huge files.

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