Simon is a Computer Science BSc graduate who has been writing about technology since 2014, and using Windows machines since 3.1. After working for an indie game studio and acting as the family's go-to ...

If you save a lot of images or graphics, you might be wondering which format you should use. One of the most common choices is PNG, which is why we’ve broken down everything you need to know about ...

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 ...

A file with the PNG file extension is referred to as a ‘Portable Network Graphics’ file. This format uses lossless compression, and is generally considered the replacement for the GIF image format.

PNG and JPEG are two file formats that are designed for storing digital images, but what’s the difference? If you’re currently hovering over the export button in your favourite editing software trying ...

Files rarely remain within the same format during the period that is required of them. It might be necessary to convert a PNG file to SVG format, to convert a f ...

Images used on websites are usually the subject of many long discussions concerning the influence of image file size and format over the entire site performance, due to low pages' loading speed or ...

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.

In the early days of personal computing, there were so many incompatible file formats that one of the first programs many PC users purchased was a file converter app that served as a switchboard ...