PNG format gets an update to support HDR images while only adding a small amount of data. Major internet browser companies, including Chrome and Firefox, already support HDR-based PNGs. Future updates ...

In digital imaging, two image formats prevail above all else: JPEG (or JPG) and PNG. At first glance, a single image shown in both formats might seem identical, but if you look closely enough and dig ...

The World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) recently released an update to the Portable Network Graphics (PNG) image format, one of the most popular image formats for web content. Tom’s Hardware writes that ...

Why it matters: For decades, JPEG, PNG, and GIF have remained among the most popular image formats, even as newer options like WebP and AVIF have emerged. Now, PNG is getting its first meaningful ...

Tom Boutell is a modest guy. Considering that one of his most notable achievements is so much a part of the background of the web, figuratively and literally, maybe that character trait makes sense.

What’s inside a PNG file? Graphics, sure. But how is that graphic encoded? [Evan Hahn] shows you what goes into a single black pixel inside a 67-byte file. Why so many bytes? Well, that is exactly ...

Corbin is a tech journalist and developer who worked at Android Police from 2016 until 2021. Check out his other work at corbin.io. The Graphics Interchange Format was initially developed by ...

Blogger David Naylor managed to get himself dugg for posting this cool 24-bit bitmap that shows every single color in the 24 bit spectrum. The file is 4094 by 4096 pixels which works out to precisely ...

A patent underlying one of the Web's most popular graphics formats is set to expire later this month, raising the question of whether a rival, open format, created as a royalty-free alternative, will ...

There are two file types that emerged among the most widely used in digital imaging. These are the PNG and JPEG or JPG file formats. In Android devices, screenshots are saved in either JPG or PNG ...