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PNG
Portable Network Graphics
PNG is lossless and supports full alpha transparency, which makes it the right choice for screenshots, logos, diagrams and anything with hard edges or text. Files are much larger than JPEG for photographs.
- Extension
- .png
- MIME type
- image/png
01 Convert PNG to something else
- PNG to JPG Usually a huge size saving. Transparency needs a decision.
- PNG to WebP The one conversion that keeps transparency and shrinks the file.
- PNG to ICO Real multi-resolution icon, transparency kept.
- PNG to BMP 32-bit BGRA, bottom-up — the layout everything reads.
- PNG to PDF Lossless embedding, transparency handled honestly.
02 Convert something else to PNG
- SVG to PNG Vectors into pixels, at whatever resolution you need.
- HEIC to PNG For when the second compression is the thing you are avoiding.
- WebP to PNG The right choice when the image has transparency.
- JPG to PNG Honest about what this does and does not achieve.
- AVIF to PNG Keeps the alpha channel AVIF supports and JPEG does not.
- ICO to PNG Pulls out the largest image the icon contains.
- GIF to PNG Fixes GIF’s 256-colour palette and its jagged edges.
- BMP to PNG Lossless, and typically 80–95% smaller.
- PDF to PNG Sharper text than JPEG, at the cost of larger files.
03 Related formats
Opening a .png file
If you landed here because something handed you a .png file and
nothing on your machine will open it, converting it to a format you already have a
reader for is usually faster than installing new software. Every conversion above runs
in this browser — the file is not uploaded, so it works on a locked-down work machine
and on a file you are not allowed to send anywhere.