.png
File Type |
Portable Network Graphic |
File Format |
Standard (developed by PNG Development Group ) |
Usage |
Open manually |
Popularity |
★ ★ ★ ★ ★ Popular |
Description |
Image format that uses indexed colors and lossless compression (like a .GIF file), but without copyright limitations; cannot be animated like a GIF image, though the related .MNG format can.
PNG images may also include an 8-bit transparency channel, which allows the colors in the image to fade from opaque to transparent; GIF images only support fully opaque or fully transparent pixels; PNG images are now supported by most Web browsers.
Mac OS X 10.4 and later saves screenshots as PNG files.
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Open With |
macOS |
Apple Preview
Apple Photos
Apple Safari
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Unix |
GIMP
Other picture viewer
Other Web browser
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Updated |
2007 |
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