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What is PNG?
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- Nico Bistolfi
- @nicobistolfi
PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics, and it is an image format used for websites and not for printing. One of the advantages of PNG is that it allows saving the image with a transparent background. It is super common using PNG format in logos, icons, for example.
This kind of image format is a lossless format. That means that the image quality was the same before and after the compression.
If you manage Photoshop, it is super easy to remove any background, if you don’t have it, there are many online tools to remove the background of an image, here are some:
Continue reading about other file formats and their uses and advantages.