Example of a PNG where the black area is transparent. Designed by Karen Lewis
In digital scrapbooking we use PNG files for items that need to be transparent. For example, if we have an embellishement such as a button, and place it on top of a paper, we can see the paper showing through the button holes.
The Portable Network Graphics (PNG) file type is a bitmapped image format that employs lossless data compression (read more at Wikipedia). That way the quality of the image is higher than a JPEG and it also has transparency unlike a JPEG.
One downside of PNG files is that they lack metadata fields - which I explain in our Organizing Workshop.
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