{"id":16673,"date":"2022-02-21T15:17:04","date_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:17:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/forgemountainphoto.com\/?page_id=16673"},"modified":"2022-02-21T15:20:34","modified_gmt":"2022-02-21T15:20:34","slug":"avif-image-format","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/forgemountainphoto.com\/avif-image-format\/","title":{"rendered":"AVIF Image Format"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
As a photographer, I am always interested in new image formats, whether WebP or now AVIF<\/a>. The ultimate goal of any image format should be to preserve quality. It seems that all previous attempts to replace jpegs have failed. I don’t see why this would be any different, but I am open to giving it a shot.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Cloudflare made a nice comparison here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Sadly some of their AVIF photos would not even load on my Chrome browser, so I tried again on Firefox without much luck. Looking at their detail section, I can clearly see a difference between JPEG compression and AVIF compression.<\/p>\n\n\n\n I will be using Lightroom to export the JPEGs to make this comparison. I think we can agree that most photographers would be using Lightroom, Photoshop, CaptureOne, Gimp, or some commercially available photography program. I may be wrong, but I doubt most photographers would use an app such as https:\/\/squoosh.app\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n I will be using Squoosh to export to AVIF. Squoosh is an experimental project from the Google Chrome Labs team and claimes to “Make images smaller using best-in-class codecs.” It is also the only app I could find with a graphic interface to compress JPGs to AVIF.<\/p>\n\n\n\n