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Over the last couple of days, I have been playing around creating Portable Network Graphics (PNG). I am sure many of you have noticed that most of my posts contain plenty of pictures, images, and photographs. I use a combination of my own photographs, and photographs and images I get off the internet. For material I obtain from the internet, I normally use ‘Bing’ images. I like to use ‘Bing’ because their images pages state very clearly which images are free-to-use and modify.
Recently, I have been using many free PNG images. I have been using a lot of Family Guy, Simpsons, Marvel and Futurama PNG images. PNG images are great as they can have transparent backgrounds. They can be easily used with other photographs and backgrounds to create unique pictures. As most of my posts are about the application of economics, which can be a difficult field to grasp for many readers, including photographs and images helps unpack my content. I like to express my work using words, pictures and videos. Using different mediums allows content to reach a wider audience as different people have different preferences for how they like to consume content.
Making my own Portable Network Graphics
The ‘Magic select’ feature enables users to select the area in the picture/photograph to isolate. The tool will make a guess regarding the exact area to select. Users can refine the exact area manually using the ‘add’ and ‘remove’ highlighters. After the area/object has been selected, the user can finalise their decision. The next step is copy the selected image and past into a fresh blank ‘Paint 3D’ project and close the original photograph/picture file without saving; this way your original photograph/picture is preserved.
‘Paint 3D’ has an option ‘called’ canvas. This can be used to adjust the size of the canvas to fit round the image. The users can set the canvas to transparent and then save the file as a PNG. The PNG is now ready to add into any photograph or picture of your choosing.
Why am I making my own PNGs?
Thank you for reading this short post. I will be trying out my newly created PNGs in upcoming posts.
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One of the nice things about PNG files is that they provide a good balance between image quality and file size. Typically when I work with graphics files, I'm finding that the JPEG/JPG version of an image takes up more than twice the bytes on my hard drive as the PNG version, with little improvement in image quality. GIF files go in the other direction -- the GIF version of the same image takes up a little more than 50% of the bytes of the PNG version, but that also comes with a significant drop-off in image quality.
Because of this, nearly all my graphic files are saved and uploaded as PNGs. You're definitely on the right track with using the PNG format creating your own new graphics, and I'll keep my eye out for your new creations in your future posts.
Thanks @doughtaker. It is important to have a good combination of file size and quality. The main reason I created the images using the PNG format is because of the transparency option. Another great advantage of PNG is the quality of images that contain text. Small text in PNG format is generally a much higher quality than in jpeg.
Love them they are so cool and very cleaver how you made them!! Love the original personal touch it adds, certainly beats just nicking pictures off the net like most people do 👍
The PNG images are a lot fun to make. They are also a lot of fun to add to photos and images. Check out the picture with Dr Doom, dragons, and decepticons. That was fun.
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Nice technique, I wish you a successful journey
Depends how you define success. I am quite sure it will be an exciting journey no matter what happens.
yes of course😎
They look kind of scary though, haha
There are a few creepy ones in there. Twisty the Clown or maybe Doctor Doom.
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interesting post to check out today great to learn something new today :)
Well, I had fun making them. I just need to experiment with them in posts.