Why are PNG-8 files mangled when opened in Photoshop?
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00:00 Why Are Png-8 Files Mangled When Opened In Photoshop?
00:48 Accepted Answer Score 9
01:21 Answer 2 Score 0
01:35 Thank you
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It looks like the problem is that Photoshop doesn't support part of the PNG-8 standard. PNG-8 like GIF uses a 256 color pallet. Both formats support using one of those 256 indexed colors to represent transparency, PNG-8 also supports setting an alpha-value for each of those 256 colors on the pallete. Photoshop (apparently CS3 and CS4) doesn't support this and renders every pixel opaque.
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Simple solution (in Photoshop CC):
Image -> Mode -> Check "RGB Color" (Not Indexed Color)
The file will now be editable as usual.