What is the difference between .sid and .png?
- Extension
- .sid
- .png
- Format
- Binary
- Binary
- Category
- Raster Image
- Raster Image
- Developer
- Extensis
- PNG Development Group
- Description
- Image created using Multi-resolution Seamless Image Database (MrSID) compression, which was developed by Extensis for compressing large images; commonly used to partition and store large Geographic Information Systems (GIS) images.
- A PNG file is an image file stored in the Portable Network Graphic (PNG) format. It contains a bitmap of indexed colors and uses lossless compression, similar to a .GIF file but without copyright limitations. PNG files are commonly used to store graphics for web images.
- MIME Type
- image/x-mrsid
- image/png
- Sample
- sample.sid
- sample.png
- Wikipedia
- .sid on Wikipedia
- .png on Wikipedia