TGA to PNG

TGA (Targa) is an old image format used mainly in games, 3D software and textures. Browsers and many modern programs do not open it directly. PNG is lossless, supports transparency and is opened everywhere.

The TGA is read locally with a built-in decoder (uncompressed and RLE, 24- and 32-bit) and exported as PNG; the alpha channel is preserved. Nothing is uploaded.

You usually run into TGA files around games and 3D graphics: character textures, sprite sheets or render outputs from older tools often come in this format, which goes back to the Truevision graphics cards of the 1980s. Its alpha channel was an important argument back then for storing transparency for masks and overlays. The PNG takes over exactly this transparency in full, so your mask is preserved - now in a format that every image viewer, content management system and browser displays directly.

The built-in reader understands the common true-colour variants at 24 and 32 bit, both stored raw and packed with the simple RLE run-length encoding. Very old kinds with a colour palette or pure grayscale, by contrast, hardly occur any more and are therefore deliberately not read. For practically every TGA from today's software the result is a clean, immediately usable PNG.

Specifications

In 3 steps

1. Drop or tap your TGA file.
2. The tool exports lossless PNG.
3. Download the PNG - with no upload.

Limitations: Supported are true-colour TGA (24/32-bit), uncompressed and RLE. Very old paletted or grayscale variants are not read. PNG is larger than JPG for photos.

FAQ

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