RGB with Transparency
As mentioned previously, PNG supports cheap transparency in RGB images via the
tRNS chunk. The format is similar to that for grayscale images, except now
the chunk contains three unscaled, 16-bit values (red, green, and blue),
and the corresponding RGB pixel is treated as fully transparent. This option
adds only 18 bytes to the image, and there are no corresponding TIFF or JPEG
image types.
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