Metung a larawan a PNG a maki 8-bit transparency channel (babo). Makatumpak ya king diseniung checkered king gulut (lalam), a keraklang magagamit kayabe ning graphics software bang lunto ing kayang lino (transparency).
Ing Portable Network Graphics (PNG) metung yang bitmappedimage format a gagamit lossless data compression. Melalang ya iti ba yang samasan ampong alilan ing format a GIF, antimong image-format o ayus-larawan a e mangailangan lisensiang patent. Ing PNG agkas de antimong
P-N-G ampong ping.[1] Ing
PNG initialism maliari yang ituring a optionally recursive, a e opisial a mangabaldugang “PNG's Not GIF” (Ing PNG e ya GIF).[2]
Susuportan no ning PNG deng palette-based a kuleng (palettes a 24-bit RGB), greyscale o larawan a RGB. Megawa ya ing PNG para king pamanalis kareng larawan king Internet at e king propesional a graphics, ania e no susuportan deng aliwang color space (antimo ing CMYK).
Keraklan, gagamitan de reng simpan (file) a PNG ing file-extension a "PNG" o "png" at mibie ya karela ing MIME media type "image/png" (me-apruba ya kanitang Octubri 141996).