The PNG format is particularly useful when it comes to the lossless storage of images with transparent backgrounds. Whether you want to convert a JPG to PNG, make a PNG transparent, or simply create a ...

Imagine working with special cameras that capture light your eyes can’t even see—ultraviolet rays that cause sunburn or infrared heat signatures that reveal hidden writing. Or perhaps using ...

Chances are good that you’ve witnessed a wide variety of file formats flit across your screen, but do you really understand what they mean? For example, you may understand that a JPEG is for pictures ...

If you have ever worked with computer graphic images, whether they be from digital cameras, found on the web, or you create them yourself, then you know there are a lot of image file formats that are ...

AVIF (AV1 Image File, derived from the AV1 video codec) files are relatively new compared to more well-known types such as GIFs, JPEGs, or PNGs, but support for them has been steadily growing. Many of ...

We all download images or create memes to share on social media, whether casually or for professional purposes. However, because converting everything into PDF resolves quality issues, we don’t seem ...

Most of your digital photos are stored in the JPEG format (a.k.a. JPG), but when you download an image from the web these days, it may be using the more modern WebP format. It's likely you're also ...

I got to wondering today, if there was any image format, maybe binary black/white, or greyscale, or even color, that is just raw pixels, with no metadata. Even BMP, while it has pretty minimal ...

Images often make up the largest part of webpages. They have their own tab on Google results and even their own algorithm. Appearing in image results should be part of a complete SEO strategy to reach ...

A file extension, or file name extension, is the letters immediately shown after the last period in a file name. For example, the file extension.txt has an extension of .txt. This extension allows the ...

We all love to download various images or image files from social media, create images for online collages or just do a simple Google search. Usually, when we download these images, we hardly pay ...