png
Speech parts
1. png - Noun
2. Png - Proper noun
Meaning
png (plural pngs)
(computing) Alternative letter-case form of PNG; Portable Network Graphics, an open protocol for digital images.
(file format) Initialism of Portable Network Graphics.
Initialism of persona non grata.
PNG
Initialism of Papua New Guinea.
Related terms
Examples
Adobe's Fireworks saves larger PNG files than many programs by default.
Adobe Photoshop 's performance on PNG files has improved in the CS Suite when using the Save For Web feature (which also allows explicit PNG/8 use).
Additionally, PNG is lossless, while JPEG produces noticeable visual artifacts around high-contrast areas.
Adobe Fireworks (formerly by Macromedia ) uses PNG as its native file format, allowing other image editors and preview utilities to view the flattened image.
Alpha storage can be "associated" (" premultiplied ") or "unassociated", but PNG standardized citation on "unassociated" ("non-premultiplied") alpha so that images with separate transparency masks can be stored losslessly.
;ancillary chunks: PNG supports metadata—this may be useful for editing, but unnecessary for viewing, as on websites.