Convert WebP to PNG

PNG earned its place as the interchange format for graphics work: every design application, office suite, game engine and asset pipeline of the last two decades imports it flawlessly, alpha channel included. WebP is a delivery format the web loves, but hand a .webp to Figma plugins, LaTeX, video editors or a client and you will meet friction. Converting to PNG is how a logo, icon or UI element you obtained as WebP re-enters the tools where actual work happens.

The technical core of this direction is alpha fidelity. WebP supports full 8-bit transparency, and so does PNG, so nothing has to be flattened or approximated - each pixel's opacity value transfers exactly. Semi-transparent edges, soft drop shadows and anti-aliased outlines all arrive intact, which you can verify against the checkerboard in the preview. This is the decisive difference from converting to JPG, where all of that would be irreversibly merged onto a solid background.

Whether the pixels themselves are perfect depends on the source, and honesty requires the distinction. A lossless WebP converts to PNG with mathematically zero change. A lossy WebP - identifiable only by decoding it - was already an approximation, and PNG faithfully preserves that approximation without adding any further damage. Either way, the PNG makes an ideal editing master: from here on, every save is exact, which is precisely what you want before rounds of retouching or compositing.

Size expectations differ by content. Flat-colour graphics and icons convert to PNGs of respectable size, sometimes only marginally larger than the WebP. Photographic content in a lossy WebP, by contrast, can balloon four- or five-fold as PNG, because storing photo detail losslessly is inherently costly. If the destination is editing, that cost is worthwhile; if the destination is a web page, the file probably should have stayed WebP.