PNG is short for Portable Network Graphic (PNG); a lossless image format uses a bitmap of indexed colors. Its birth was to replace the Graphics Interchange Format (GIF). Since GIF used a Unisys-patented LZW compression algorithm, free software couldn’t create GIF files without paying a license.
Here, we are going to compare PNG with GIF, JPEG, and TIFF so you’ll know which format you should use on your next project.
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