Overview

One of the most often used file extensions for storing raster images is PNG, short for “Portable Network Graphics.” Acting as a great replacement for GIF, this free and open-source application Because the PNG format is lightweight, loading, copying, and distributing images is easy. One free and open-source format for acquiring compressed picture files is PNG.

Category

It falls under the category of lossless bitmap image file format. Users can recognize PNG files with its extension .png.

Supportive Apps

It supports several apps.

It supports almost all major browsers including Safari, Internet Explorer, and Mozilla Firefox.

Many image editors are supported by the extension including CorelDRAW, Flash, Corel Graphics Editor, PPT, and FreeHand.

It supports image converters like Xenomorph, Web Designer’s Toolkit WebGraphics Optimizer etc.

It also supports 3D Apps, Entertainment, Games, Office and Business Applications.

Developer

W3C group has taken responsibility for PNG.

Supported Image Formats

It supports

Full colour non-palette-based RGB

grayscale images

24-bit RGB color coding

It doesn’t support non-RGB format.

It is easy to view PNG files. Any free image viewing tool can open PNG files.