Toomaj

I wouldn't expect anything like that as Serif doesn't even provide any fixes or updates for existing products, looks like the business is not sustainable anymore, I'm waiting for official death announcement

Just consider it dead, affinity photo and other serif products are dead. No updates, no activities, no life signals, that means it's dead for good

It seems dead to me too, no updates, nothing

The answer is simple, for the same reason Affinity supports any other image format, it's useful to have converting tools, but it doesn't change the fact that lack of next-gen including WebP support in 2022 is unacceptable for an advanced image manipulation software at the level of Affinity. I'm pretty much sure Affinity team will fully support WebP at some point.

No offense, but I assume you are missing the point here, this conversation is not about finding an alternative solution, this topic is about native support of WebP in Affinity which at the moment is not available. Please refer to the previous posts on the same conversation. If you are trying to say it's no deal if Affinity is not up to date in terms of working with next-gen image files, not sure how to react to that.

Hi, well, that’s true, nomacs exists too, but it doesn’t seem to be maintained anymore. I usually use ImageMagick or XnConvert instead. I also found Krita an absolutely powerful tool to do almost anything with a photo and it generates WebP.

I completely agree with you. If next-gen media formats are not necessary and we should stick to the prev-gen, then maybe next-gen CPUs and GPUs are also unnecessary, perhaps faster internet and higher qualities of anything is unnecessary. Affinity needs to support next-gen including WebP, I was a little bit disappointed when I realized WebP is not in the export list