diff --git a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/Vp8LBitReader.cs b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/Vp8LBitReader.cs
index bcde6e74c..39ee78cd6 100644
--- a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/Vp8LBitReader.cs
+++ b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/Vp8LBitReader.cs
@@ -8,15 +8,15 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.WebP
     /// <summary>
     /// A bit reader for VP8 streams.
     /// </summary>
-    public class Vp8LBitreader
+    public class Vp8LBitReader
     {
         private readonly Stream stream;
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Vp8LBitreader"/> class.
+        /// Initializes a new instance of the <see cref="Vp8LBitReader"/> class.
         /// </summary>
         /// <param name="stream">The stream to read from.</param>
-        public Vp8LBitreader(Stream stream)
+        public Vp8LBitReader(Stream stream)
         {
             this.stream = new MemoryStream();
             stream.CopyTo(this.stream);
@@ -29,7 +29,7 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.WebP
         private int Bit { get; set; }
 
         /// <summary>
-        /// Check if the offset is inside the stream length.
+        /// Gets a value indicating whether the offset is inside the stream length.
         /// </summary>
         private bool ValidPosition
         {
@@ -65,7 +65,7 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.WebP
         /// <returns>True, if the bit is one, otherwise false.</returns>
         public bool ReadBit()
         {
-            if (!ValidPosition)
+            if (!this.ValidPosition)
             {
                 WebPThrowHelper.ThrowImageFormatException("The image stream does not contain enough data");
             }
diff --git a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPDecoderCore.cs b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPDecoderCore.cs
index 72000b8e9..b8bbf7599 100644
--- a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPDecoderCore.cs
+++ b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPDecoderCore.cs
@@ -230,10 +230,70 @@ namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.WebP
             }
 
             // The first 28 bits of the bitstream specify the width and height of the image.
-            var bitReader = new Vp8LBitreader(this.currentStream);
+            var bitReader = new Vp8LBitReader(this.currentStream);
             uint width = bitReader.Read(WebPConstants.Vp8LImageSizeBits) + 1;
             uint height = bitReader.Read(WebPConstants.Vp8LImageSizeBits) + 1;
 
+            // The alpha_is_used flag should be set to 0 when all alpha values are 255 in the picture, and 1 otherwise.
+            bool alphaIsUsed = bitReader.ReadBit();
+
+            // The next 3 bytes are the version. The version_number is a 3 bit code that must be set to 0.
+            // Any other value should be treated as an error.
+            uint version = bitReader.Read(3);
+            if (version != 0)
+            {
+                WebPThrowHelper.ThrowImageFormatException($"Unexpected webp version number: {version}");
+            }
+
+            // Next bit indicates, if a transformation is present.
+            bool transformPresent = bitReader.ReadBit();
+            int numberOfTransformsPresent = 0;
+            while (transformPresent)
+            {
+                var transformType = (WebPTransformType)bitReader.Read(2);
+                switch (transformType)
+                {
+                    case WebPTransformType.SubtractGreen:
+                        // There is no data associated with this transform.
+                        break;
+                    case WebPTransformType.ColorIndexingTransform:
+                        // The transform data contains color table size and the entries in the color table.
+                        // 8 bit value for color table size.
+                        uint colorTableSize = bitReader.Read(8) + 1;
+                        // TODO: color table should follow here?
+                        break;
+
+                    case WebPTransformType.PredictorTransform:
+                    {
+                        // The first 3 bits of prediction data define the block width and height in number of bits.
+                        // The number of block columns, block_xsize, is used in indexing two-dimensionally.
+                        uint sizeBits = bitReader.Read(3) + 2;
+                        int blockWidth = 1 << (int)sizeBits;
+                        int blockHeight = 1 << (int)sizeBits;
+
+                        break;
+                    }
+
+                    case WebPTransformType.ColorTransform:
+                    {
+                        // The first 3 bits of the color transform data contain the width and height of the image block in number of bits,
+                        // just like the predictor transform:
+                        uint sizeBits = bitReader.Read(3) + 2;
+                        int blockWidth = 1 << (int)sizeBits;
+                        int blockHeight = 1 << (int)sizeBits;
+                        break;
+                    }
+                }
+
+                numberOfTransformsPresent++;
+                if (numberOfTransformsPresent == 4)
+                {
+                    break;
+                }
+
+                transformPresent = bitReader.ReadBit();
+            }
+
             return new WebPImageInfo()
                    {
                        Width = (int)width,
diff --git a/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPTransformType.cs b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPTransformType.cs
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..ed6e37e0a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/src/ImageSharp/Formats/WebP/WebPTransformType.cs
@@ -0,0 +1,37 @@
+// Copyright (c) Six Labors and contributors.
+// Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0.
+
+namespace SixLabors.ImageSharp.Formats.WebP
+{
+    /// <summary>
+    /// Enum for the different transform types. Transformations are reversible manipulations of the image data
+    /// that can reduce the remaining symbolic entropy by modeling spatial and color correlations.
+    /// Transformations can make the final compression more dense.
+    /// </summary>
+    public enum WebPTransformType : uint
+    {
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The predictor transform can be used to reduce entropy by exploiting the fact that neighboring pixels are often correlated.
+        /// </summary>
+        PredictorTransform = 0,
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The goal of the color transform is to decorrelate the R, G and B values of each pixel.
+        /// Color transform keeps the green (G) value as it is, transforms red (R) based on green and transforms blue (B) based on green and then based on red.
+        /// </summary>
+        ColorTransform = 1,
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// The subtract green transform subtracts green values from red and blue values of each pixel.
+        /// When this transform is present, the decoder needs to add the green value to both red and blue.
+        /// There is no data associated with this transform.
+        /// </summary>
+        SubtractGreen = 2,
+
+        /// <summary>
+        /// If there are not many unique pixel values, it may be more efficient to create a color index array and replace the pixel values by the array's indices.
+        /// The color indexing transform achieves this.
+        /// </summary>
+        ColorIndexingTransform = 3,
+    }
+}