Anything change on Ebay for saving pics?

alaura22

Has anything changed on ebay with regards to saving a pic?
When I right mouse clicked on a pic and said "save as" it would send it to my file where I would rename it and it would save it as a jpeg. Now it defaults to webp instead of jpeg.
Is this a problem on my end?

oih82w8

Same here, been that way (webp instead of jpeg) for at least a couple weeks on ebay.

alaura22

@oih82w8 said:
Same here, been that way (webp instead of jpeg) for at least a couple weeks on ebay.

I only noticed it a few days ago although I can't remember when the last time I tried to save a pic
Is there a way to change it back to saving as a jpeg or is it just the way ebay is providing the pics?

Thanks @oih82w8 I thought it was just me.............
Maybe someone out there will be able to shead some light

U1chicago

https://www.zdnet.com/home-and-office/work-life/how-to-get-around-chromes-save-as-webp-image-format-issue/

Apparently websites are changing images to webp because it saves space for website hosting. The above link suggests to download an extension that allows you to save as a jpeg. You can also just leave it as a webp (should likely still open on your computer like any other image-test it out with one to see).

alaura22

Thanks @U1chicago

alaura22

Now I just have to figure out how to do it

oih82w8

You cannot upload webp images here.

alaura22

As a temp fix I found that if you right mouse on the pic and choose copy you can then open paint and paste it and then save as a jpeg
This will have to do until I get my 6 year old little buddy to show me how to change it....................I'm kidding, I will figure it out

CaptHenway

Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

alaura22

@CaptHenway said:
Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

I just find it amazing that these companies can just change things around without caring how it affects the people that use them.
What's the old saying :
"I'd rather beg for forgiveness then ask for permission"

jmlanzaf

@alaura22 said:

@CaptHenway said:
Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

I just find it amazing that these companies can just change things around without caring how it affects the people that use them.
What's the old saying :
"I'd rather beg for forgiveness then ask for permission"

They do consider how it affects users. But they have to have a product that works it you'll switch to a different browser that is more functional. Bigger files means slower loading. So there are positive and negatives.

tincup

@alaura22 said:

@CaptHenway said:
Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

I just find it amazing that these companies can just change things around without caring how it affects the people that use them.
What's the old saying :
"I'd rather beg for forgiveness then ask for permission"

Called 'progress' I suppose. New software, browsers, etc. come out all the time, and make previous formats obsolete. Can be frustrating. And yes... I've been running across new formats for photos also. Been having to find sites / programs /apps to convert to the jpeg format. I suppose things will catch up eventually and we will get used to it and conversions may no longer be necessary. Or not.

tincup

And I was thinking the new formats might have been coming out to 'discourage' the copying of the images... but perhaps it really is just for the space saving function.

BStrauss3

@CaptHenway said:
Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

HEIC? iPhone? Those are a small pain to deal with in the Windows world. Along with webp. Thankfully, my usual tools - Paint.Net and ImageMagick both handle them. Windows is getting better when it comes to webp.

CaptHenway

@BStrauss3 said:

@CaptHenway said:
Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

HEIC? iPhone? Those are a small pain to deal with in the Windows world. Along with webp. Thankfully, my usual tools - Paint.Net and ImageMagick both handle them. Windows is getting better when it comes to webp.

Yes, that. A real pain in the butt having to convert them to something usable. Is there any way to program an iphone to NOT do that?

bsshog40

If I need to save pics off ebay, I usually just screenshot on my phone or printscreen on my pc. Then I can just crop out what I don't want and save them.

BStrauss3

Honestly, I just right-click save-as into my downloads directory and then batch-convert them to another format such as png.

I do get the difference in size, however most images I download are cropped and scaled for the book and that works better with .png.

robec

@CaptHenway said:

@BStrauss3 said:

@CaptHenway said:
Recently my cell phone started saving pictures in some weird new format to save space.

HEIC? iPhone? Those are a small pain to deal with in the Windows world. Along with webp. Thankfully, my usual tools - Paint.Net and ImageMagick both handle them. Windows is getting better when it comes to webp.

Yes, that. A real pain in the butt having to convert them to something usable. Is there any way to program an iphone to NOT do that?

There is.
In Settings select Camera, scroll down to Format. By default the camera uses High Efficiency.

Instead select Most Compatible.

CRHer700

You could always take a screenshot of the picture.

CaptHenway

@Robec Thanks, but when I went there it was already in Most Compatible. Must be time to clean out the memory.

messydesk

Seems like an aggressive push by Google to replace JPEG and PNG with WebP, which was developed by Google. Not sure how successful that'll be, since there are so many legacy devices that produce and read JPEG natively. I imagine Google phones all produce only WebP images. Technically, it's a better format than JPEG or PNG or GIF, as it provides better lossless compression than PNG, better lossy compression than JPEG, and allows encoding of alpha channels (i.e., transparency) and animation like GIF. That it presents an inconvenience to billions of users of the other formats is not their concern, as they are masters of the universe.

EBay's use of WebP makes sense from a space saving perspective. Any uploaded format can be reduced in storage space without having as big of an impact on image quality. If there are no browsers that have issues rendering eBay pages full of WebP images, then forum software front ends could also convert to WebP as images are uploaded and not have storage issues. I'll have to look into whether phpBB or MediaWiki support this, since every so often I need to expand the space on the VAMWorld server, which increases recurring AWS cost.

BStrauss3

@CRHer700 said:
You could always take a screenshot of the picture.

No. 1000x no. All that does is pixelate the image to bleep.

JBK

Here is a workaround I use on my Android.

I open the saved photo, make atleast a small edit such as cropping, and then I save it.

It saves as a JPEG.

Barberian

@BStrauss3 said:

@CRHer700 said:
You could always take a screenshot of the picture.

No. 1000x no. All that does is pixelate the image to bleep.

Yeah. So? It gets the job done and takes up less space than PNG.

Edited to add _ whatever someone may write in response will bounce off my dense head like a BB.

telephoto1

This isn't generally a problem for me on the very rare occasions I ever copy something FROM eBay. I just copy it, send it to Paint, hit "save as" and then save in the format desired (usually jpg).

CRHer700

@BStrauss3 said:

@CRHer700 said:
You could always take a screenshot of the picture.

No. 1000x no. All that does is pixelate the image to bleep.

It doesn't on my device.