| Format introduction | A camera raw image file contains minimally processed data from the image sensor of either a digital camera, image scanner, or motion picture film scanner. Raw files are named so because they are not yet processed and therefore are not ready to be printed or edited with a bitmap graphics editor. | WebP is an image format employing both lossy and lossless compression. As a derivative of the VP8 video format, it is a sister project to the WebM multimedia container format. WebP-related software is released under a BSD license. |
| Technical details | Raw files contain the information required to produce a viewable image from the camera's sensor data. The structure of raw files often follows a common pattern: a short file header, camera sensor metadata, an image thumbnail and the sensor image data etc, | Google has proposed using WebP for animated images as an alternative to the popular GIF format, citing the advantages of 24-bit color with transparency, combining frames with lossy and lossless compression in the same animation, and as well as support for seeking to specific frames. |
| File extension | .3fr, .ari, .arw, .bay, .crw, .cr2, .cap, .dcs, .dcr, .dng, .drf, .eip, .erf, .fff, .iiq, .k25, .kdc | .webp |
| Developed by | Type of format: Image file formats | Google |
| Associated programs | iPhoto, Windows Photo Gallery, Windows Live Photo Gallery, FastPictureViewer Professional, Rawstudio, ACDSee Pro, Adobe Photoshop, IrfanView, Paint Shop Pro, ImageMagick. | Google Chrome, Opera, Picasa, PhotoLine, Pixelmator, ImageMagick, XnView, IrfanView, GDAL |
| Wiki | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raw_image_format | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/WebP |