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This template should not be substituted. This template is used to tags JPEGs to being converted to PNGs. The above documentation is transcluded from Template:Convert to PNG/doc .
Sometimes, you find a drawing or similar image useful for a Wikipedia article, that was saved as a JPEG but should have been saved as a PNG.JPEG is good for images where the color changes fluidly throughout the image, like in a photograph, whereas PNG files are good for images with relatively few colors, such as a drawing of a flag, a chart, or a map; note that sometimes SVG is better.
This template uses the ombox CSS classes in MediaWiki:Common.css for most of its looks, thus it is fully skinnable. The default images for this meta-template are in png format instead of svg format. The main reason is that some older web browsers have trouble with the transparent background that MediaWiki renders for svg images.
Cartoon or screenshots of computer software in JPEG format that are plagued with compression artifacts; Images in GIF format that have lost their color depth; Items like logo and computer icons which have completely or partially lost their transparency and/or have a solid border
The PNG (Portable Network Graphics) file format was created as a free, open-source alternative to GIF. The PNG file format supports 8-bit (256 colors) paletted images (with optional transparency for all palette colors) and 24-bit truecolor (16 million colors) or 48-bit truecolor with and without alpha channel – while GIF supports only 8-bit ...
With an operand, e.g. thumb=Example.png, the operand names an image that is used as the thumbnail, ignoring any size specification. frame Preserve the original image size, and put a box around the image. Show any caption below the image. Float the image on the right unless overridden with the location attribute.
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In such cases, text annotations can be added to an image with the templates Template:Annotated image or Template:Annotated image 4. These templates allow wikitext (e.g., regular text, wikilinks, and reference templates) to be included on the image itself. They may also be used to crop an image so as to focus on a particular portion of it, or ...