What is Portable Network Graphics?
{{redirect|PNG|the country|Papua New Guinea}} '''Portable Network Graphics''' (often shortened to '''PNG''') is a [[Bitmap graphics|bitmapped]] [[image]] [[File format|format]] that uses lossless [[data compression]]. Their most common use is within [[Transparency|transparent]] images, as it does support an alpha channel along with a 16-bit color channel.<ref>{{Cite web|date=2016-03-14|title=What Is the Alpha Channel in PNG Images?|url=https://www.makeuseof.com/tag/alpha-channel-images-mean/|access-date=2021-04-21|website=MUO|language=en-US}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|last=Roberts|first=Vernon|date=2020-03-03|title=What's the Best Image Format?|url=https://parrisprinting.com/whats-the-best-image-format/|access-date=2021-04-21|website=Parris|language=en-US|archive-date=2021-04-21|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210421173413/https://parrisprinting.com/whats-the-best-image-format/|url-status=dead}}</ref> It is commonly used on the internet due to its high quality to size ratio. == References == {{Reflist}} {{tech-stub}} [[Category:Computer file formats]] [[Category:Data compression]]