having the same trouble here. pls openai team fix this real quick! I am a heavy user of dalle, and this is slowing down my production!
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Itās a bit inconvenient but on a PC, you can right click and save image as > save as type: all files > then manually type yourfilename.png and save the image.
You have to manually add your extension. You can do .jpg or .png
That does not alter the file type. That just puts the wrong extension on the image.
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I noticed it as well. I use Chrome as a browser and installed an extension to allow me to download as a png. I did read that now anything images that are generated from ChatGPT or Dall-E3 will have metadata embedded so that is probably why the extension is now .webp.
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I signed in just to say this is really frustrating and I canceled my subscription over this.
The only value generating images had for me was being able to use them directly in a game engine. Itās too annoying to convert, quality concerns aside.
I had just signed up for a subscription this month, and thought it would be very useful. Too bad they let me down so quickly.
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Welcome to the community!
Are you aware of all the great tools built off the API using DALLE3?
Weāve also got a lot of great dalle3 threads here on the forum if you stick around.
Sorry to hear you donāt see ChatGPT Plus as a value anymore, but thereās a ton of great tools that use the DALLE3 tech available.
PS: Iāve done a lot of gamedev with OpenAI over the last 5 yearsā¦
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Just open Photoshop, go to file, open, navigate to where you downloaded the .webp file, select it, click open.
Make your edits or changes and then export to the format you like.
Upscayl is a free program that works really good for upscaling your image resolution also.
You just doubled the price of a subscriptionā¦
IrfanView is an old classic image viewer. You can just open, and āsave asā. Or batch process.
As a reminder, we have a thread with answers from the DALLE AMA a while backā¦
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My workaround:
download and instead of file type to save as type ā.webpā, click the dropdown and select āall filesā
then save your file and manually add the file extension ā.pngā to the end of the file name.
Problem solved.
That doesnāt change the file format. It only works if the image program can also recognize webp and can also deal with having the wrong extension.
You might as well do the right thing and set the file association for webp to the program that can open them.
Otherwise, you are essentially writing: āMy workaround, I renamed webp to PDF and now I have a pdf fileā.
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From what Iāve observed, it seems like the icons set with Gravatar are also trying to be converted to the webp formatš„
How about this plugin?
It even has a Google Featured badge.
It seems like there should be no problem using it with Google Chromeā¦
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Same thing here. Even if you do save the file as a .png the file size is still only 300 to 400Kb useless in any real form. Webp is only for the web so I guess time to cancel subscription. especially as there is not one response to any questions asked.
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You know, if I would charge 5 cents for every Stable Diffusion image generated on my machine, I couldnāt possibly lose money, even if I would send it to you in TIFF format. I donāt see how itās different with DALL-E.
I hope you are joking. No, the format will stay the same, WEBP VP8. Your Windows is fool-proof enough to detect correct format even when extension is wrong, but it wonāt change the binary content.
Also, any conversion decreases the quality. So yes, we can convert to PNG, we can even upscaleā¦ But then whatās the point of paying to OpenAI, isnāt it better to just stick to Stable Diffusion or Midjourney?
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āā¦I have to imagine they were losing a lot of money,ā
Not sure if youāve seen the news, but they are doing just fine.
Downgrading paid services and not bothering to notify your customers of the change or reasoning, is just bad business.
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OpenAI should really understand that changing the specifications of something that worked perfectly and nobody complained on a whim can lead to situations like thisā¦
Step 1: find a figurine someone made of the character from a book
Step 2: have ChatGPT use computer vision to describe it
Step 3: have ChatGPT write a description as a photo of a real person
Step 3a: (have ChatGPT emit the dall-e call to the user instead of sending function)
Step 4: specify dalle tall, and paste the AIās prompt again
Step 5: receive image in vibrant WEBP format at 1/10th the the file size of a prior PNG.
I too get the webp format. This morning I was able to ask it to provide me a link to download a high res PNG and that was working. Now that just ends in a āfile not foundā. Seems like kind of basic functionality for something thatās purpose built to generate images.