Portable Network Graphics or abbreviated as PNG is a raster graphics file format. At the moment, it’s probably a second popular format for images shared on the Internet; and not without a reason. However, PNG tends to be especially wide-spread among web-designers and people who do a lot of graphics work.
PNG can handle sharp edges and lines of varied thickness, text and solid colors rather excellently. But its key advantage is that it utilizes lossless compression. This type of compression allows you to compress images without any loss of information. Thus, the original image quality will be maintained. More to that, if you compress a PNG image, thanks to lossless compression, you’ll be able to restore it back to the original without any issues. The image quality won’t change even if you have to edit and save your PNG image multiple times. The same cannot be said for compressing JPG format, for instance.
You might be surprised but one of the most popular image editing techniques is cropping. That’s because images need to be cropped for various social media platforms and websites. But aside from this, cropping can be an incredible tool that can help you fix your composition, focus the viewers’ attention on your main subject and make your photo more striking and impactful.
To crop an image means to cut away some parts of it. Cropping can help you get rid of distractions or extra empty space that looks more like a mistake than an artistic choice. With the help of cropping, you can change aspect ratio, pixel dimensions and even shape of your image.
When giving a presentation, you need to keep people’s attention. Your goal is to present your information in an engaging and easily digestible way. Otherwise, people will lose their interest pretty quickly.
A great way to achieve this is to include images in your presentation. Visual content is extremely popular these days – it’s widely used in marketing, you see it all over the Internet. This is due to the fact that it is much easier and quicker for people to perceive information when it’s presented in a visual form.
In most cases, digital images tend to be rectangular. But it doesn’t mean that you can’t experiment with shapes. You’ve probably come across some circular images on the Internet, haven’t you? Maybe you’ve seen them on a website. It could’ve been someone’s profile picture. Have you ever wondered how you can get the same result? Well, you’re in luck! In this article you will learn how to crop an image into a circle in Photoshop.
It may be difficult to tell the difference between resizing and cropping. But both of these tools are necessary to master for pretty much anyone who shares images on social media or their website. Why? Because you will inevitably have to use them at some point or another. These two tools are key to preparing your visual content for publishing online or printing. If you don’t know the difference, you might end up with blurry printed out photos or images that have such a big file size that they barely load on your website; even if your visitors have a fast internet connection.
If you want to get better at image editing, you’ll need to learn what it means to resize an image and what it means to crop it. The better you understand this, the better results you’ll get.
Lina Thorne • Updated · Posted in Crop Photo
