PNG stands for Portable Network Graphics. It is an open source file extension for raster graphics files. It was created as an alternative to GIF (Graphics Interchange Format), which was commonly used to support lossless image compression. PNG is an open extensible file format for lossless compressed images.
PNG file extension falls under lossless bitmap image file format.
The File extension for portable Network Graphics is *.png.
PNG Development Group of World Wide Web Consortium (W3C).
The 8-byte signature for a PNG file in hex value is 89 50 4E 47 0D 0A 1A 0A.
PNG supports palettes images of
Note: PNG does not support non-RGB color formats such as CMYK since it was designed for mainly transferring images on the Internet, not for professional-quality graphics images.
PNG file can be opened using any free image viewer.