Description:
Portable Network Graphics (PNG) is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression. PNG was created to improve upon and replace GIF (Graphics Interchange Format) as an image-file format not requiring a patent license.
PNG supports palette-based images (with palettes of 24-bit RGB or 32-bit RGBA colors), grayscale images (with or without alpha channel), and full-color non-palette-based RGB[A] images (with or without alpha channel). PNG was designed for transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality print graphics, and therefore does not support non-RGB color spaces such as CMYK.
Wikipedia Supported applications:
Microsoft Windows Photo Viewer, Microsoft Paint, Adobe Photoshop CS6, Adobe Photoshop Elements 10, Adobe Illustrator CS6, CorelDRAW Graphics Suite X6, Corel PaintShop Pro X4, ACDSee Photo Manager 14 , ACD Systems Canvas 12, Roxio Creator 2012 , Other picture viewer, Other Web browser
Developed by: PNG Development Group
MIME type : image/png, application/png, application/x-png