How to use a .png in Photoshop

By Persnickety Prints on July 29, 2012 Continue Reading

PNG stands for Portable Network Graphic. You don’t really need to know this, but non-the-less, you will sound really intelligent when you tell people.

Here’s what you want to know about the .png format:

The transparent background has no limits!
PNG images have a loss-less compression.
The PNG format also supports 24-bit color like the JPEG format. A PNG image may include over 16 million colors. Keep in mind a GIF is also transparent, however, mostly used for animated graphics. GIF images only include a maximum of 256 colors.

Very basic steps to using .png files in Photoshop:
Open Photoshop.
Open the image, or layout you would like to use.
Photoshop is all about layers, make sure your layers panel is open.

Layer > New > Layer

Here we are adding a #thisweek hashtag/wordart to the top of Tyler’s photo. Grab a free downloadable hashtag set here.

This photo card is a.png too! Add your image, adjust, and walla! Done!

As always, let us know if you have any questions!

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5 Responses to How to use a .png in Photoshop

Emma Miya July 31, 2012 at 1:43 am #

holy moly!! i love your blog and i am ordering my instagram prints now from your website!!! can’t wait to make my friend’s bachelorette mini album!

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- Persnickety Prints July 31, 2012 at 1:48 am #
  
  Ahhh– thanks Emma!
  
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Heather Runion July 29, 2012 at 10:34 pm #

Can you use this in Photoshop Elements?

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- Persnickety Prints July 29, 2012 at 11:01 pm #
  
  Yes! Exactly the same concept– just keep the png layer ontop!
  
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Emily July 29, 2012 at 10:08 pm #

thank you! I never knew how to do this

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