Answer by Peter Green for Why is CMYK & PNG not possible?
Broadly speaking there are two schools of thought on file-format design.One is that you should have lots of options to give lots of different users what they want. The problem with this approach is...
View ArticleAnswer by Billy Kerr for Why is CMYK & PNG not possible?
Why?Because PNG is a lossless raster image format developed for the web, and ultimately for display screens which are RGB.However the format was never intended or designed to be a print format, and...
View ArticleAnswer by Lucian for Why is CMYK & PNG not possible?
Look at it this way: PNG was developed as a replacement for GIF and so generally to be used in digital work, which means RGB (screens use RGB). And yes PNG is limited to RGB. While CMYK is a...
View ArticleAnswer by joojaa for Why is CMYK & PNG not possible?
Simply, the PNG format has no support for any other color mode than RGB. There is no way around this. Use TIFF
View ArticleWhy is CMYK & PNG not possible?
I needed to convert an image to PNG format so I have a transparent background. Unfortunately, CMYK isn't supported by the PNG format. I just wanted an image with a clear background so I can have that...
View ArticleAnswer by jinzai for Why is CMYK & PNG not possible?
The issue has not a thing to do with color spaces. It is about transparency...or alpha. Use BMP format. You cannot readily composite using chromakey or alpha blending with any other format on Windows...
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