Format | PSD | PNG |
Company | Adobe | Portable Network Graphics |
Description | It is Adobe Photoshop\'s native format. | The PNG file format is regarded, and was made, as the free and open-source successor to the GIF file format. The PNG file format supports true color (16 million colors) whereas the GIF file format only allows 256 colors. PNG excels when the image has large areas of uniform color. The lossless PNG format is best suited for editing pictures and all popular modern browsers fully support PNG. |
Benefits | It stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, Clipping paths, and duotone settings. | Lossless, popular, 16M colors |
Drawbacks | Large files | Large files |
Metadata | Handles XMP, EXIF or IPTC |
![]() | Professional photo conversion and processing. |
![]() | Used by photographers (amateur and professional), design studios, architects, large organizations (NASA, IBM, Chrysler, University hospitals). |
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