Export WebP Assets from Icons and Artwork

Version 6.97 adds WebP handling to IconWorkshop in both directions: the application can import WebP images as sources and export WebP files as deliverables. That makes it practical to feed icon artwork into modern web and app pipelines without a separate conversion tool.

When WebP is the right output

• Website and product-page versions of your application icons.
• Store, launcher, or documentation imagery where smaller files matter.
• Asset pipelines that already standardize on WebP for raster delivery.

Export workflow

1. Open the icon or image in IconWorkshop. Any source the application reads works, including ICO, PNG, PSD, and SVG.
2. Choose the image format or size you want to publish.
3. Save the result in WebP format.
4. Fine-tune the quality setting in the save options to balance compression and visual fidelity, as introduced in the 6.97 changelog.

Importing WebP sources

The same release also lets you open WebP files as input. If a designer or a content pipeline hands you WebP artwork, you can build the Windows ICO or macOS ICNS family from it directly instead of asking for a PNG re-export.

Check the small raster sizes after any lossy round trip: WebP compression artifacts that are invisible at 512 pixels can muddy a 16-pixel icon.

Related tutorials

• Create a Favicon for Your Website
• Create ICO and ICNS from SVG Artwork
• Find Icons with the Built-In SVG/Icons Search