[Solved] What really is a PNG? [closed]

Standard PNGs don’t support editing. Simplifying it a bit, they are just what you said they are: losslessly compressed bitmaps (vs JPGs, which employ lossy compression, or GIFs which are also bitmaps, but only support up to a 256 color palette). Fireworks PNGs contain a special header and extra data that allows them to retain … Read more