Portable Network Graphics

Portable Network Graphics (often shortened to PNG) is a bitmapped image format that uses lossless data compression.

"PNG" redirects here. For the country, see Papua New Guinea.

Their most common use is within transparent images, as it does support an alpha channel along with a 16-bit color channel.[1][2]

It is commonly used on the internet due to its high quality to size ratio.

References
  1. "What Is the Alpha Channel in PNG Images?". MUO. 2016-03-14. Retrieved 2021-04-21.
  2. Roberts, Vernon (2020-03-03). "What's the Best Image Format?". Parris. Archived from the original on 2021-04-21. Retrieved 2021-04-21.


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