For quite a while, I’ve had a photo workflow that converts images to WebP (both to reduce size, and so that I don’t have to separate between jpeg and png, for transparency). However, when I got back to blogging last month, I noticed an issue with new WebP images…
Micro.blog does something to them now that makes them very grey and dull!
Below you can see a WebP image before and after I’ve uploaded it to Micro.blog…
Manton tweaks the asset pipeline a fair bit. And aggressively wipes metadata, which all standard libraries I know of do a terrible job of letting you do that selectively versus with a canon. If I had to guess, changes in the video asset pipeline could have messed this up. Or you got a phone that takes HDR now or uses a non default color space that makes it noticeable. Or your process for converting to webp stores that data differently than it used to.