After 20 years, PNG is back with renewed vigor! A new PNG spec was just released.

  • Irdial@lemmy.sdf.org
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    2 days ago

    Great news! PNG has always been my image format of choice due to its relatively good compression and support for transparency.

      • tal@lemmy.today
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        2 days ago

        PNG has terrible compression

        It’s fine if you’re using it for what it’s intended for, which is images with flat color or an ordered dither.

        It’s not great for compressing photographs, but then, that wasn’t what it was aimed at.

        Similarly, JPEG isn’t great at storing flat-color lossless images, which is PNG’s forte.

        Different tools for different jobs.