PNG – stands for Portable Network Graphics and is another raster image type. The main difference between a PNG and a JPG is that a PNG file can have a transparent background and is generally larger and of higher quality. PNGs are great for interactive documents such as web pages but are not suitable for print. The reason PNGs are used for web is so you can save your image with more colours on a transparent background which make for a sharper, higher quality web image.

Read more in our blog titled – your guide to image formats.