| Tool | Best for | |------|-----------| | TinyPNG (web) | Quick, smart lossy compression | | PNGGauntlet (Windows) | Maximum lossless compression | | ImageOptim (Mac) | Batch lossless optimization | | pngquant (command line) | Fine-tuned quality/filesize trade-off |
Unlike JPGs, PNGs support transparent or semi-transparent backgrounds, which is essential for logos and web icons. Web Graphics: .png to png
If you feed a PNG file into a converter and tell it to output a PNG, no pixels are lost (lossless compression). However, the container changes. Think of a PNG file as a shipping box. The box contains: | Tool | Best for | |------|-----------| |
