{"id":16547,"date":"2010-08-12T09:56:06","date_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:56:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.adobe.com\/jnack\/?p=2581"},"modified":"2010-08-12T09:56:06","modified_gmt":"2010-08-12T16:56:06","slug":"do-you-care-about-png-8-with-transparency","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/2010\/08\/12\/do-you-care-about-png-8-with-transparency\/","title":{"rendered":"Do you care about PNG-8 with transparency?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Adobe Fireworks have long pointed out that Photoshop&#8217;s Save for Web feature doesn&#8217;t support the ability to generate an 8-bit PNG file with variable transparency. \u00a0That is, Photoshop&#8217;s 8-bit PNGs support 1-bit transparency (just like a GIF), whereas Fireworks PNGs support multiple semi-transparent colors.\u00a0(Here&#8217;s a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jnack.com\/adobe\/photoshop\/pngs\/index.html\">really ugly comparison<\/a> I threw together.)<\/p>\n<p>Question: Is this still relevant, e.g. in building mobile apps? \u00a0Is it important to the point where the Photoshop team should prioritize adding this support ahead of doing other Web-\/mobile-oriented changes? [Update: If it&#8217;s relevant to you, it would be helpful to know specifically how\/when you&#8217;d use it.]<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>J.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fans of Adobe Fireworks have long pointed out that Photoshop&#8217;s Save for Web feature doesn&#8217;t support the ability to generate an 8-bit PNG file with variable transparency. \u00a0That is, Photoshop&#8217;s 8-bit PNGs support 1-bit transparency (just like a GIF), whereas Fireworks PNGs support multiple semi-transparent colors.\u00a0(Here&#8217;s a really ugly comparison I threw together.) Question: Is [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[6],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16547"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16547\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16547"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16547"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/jnack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16547"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}