| TGA Help Page |
The TGA format was developed by Truevision as a way of storing color images, specfically 24 and 32-bit color images. The format is sometimes known incorrectly as "Targa" which refers to the graphics hardware the format was originally designed for. The TGA format is lossless (no image data is discarded during saving) which supports high-color images. OptionsThe TGA format can be RLE (Run Length Encoding) compressed which results in significantly smaller filesizes, but will be give slower performance when handling the image. |