TGA

Writable

image

file format

Identify it

Extensions	`.tga.icb.vda.vst.tpic`
MIME types	`image/x-targaimage/x-tga`
PRONOM	`x-fmt/367fmt/402`
Wikidata	`Q1063976`
Library of Congress	`fdd000179fdd000180`

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Open it

Classic ColorsOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 2.0
DevILOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU Lesser General Public License, version 2.1
GD Graphics LibraryOpen sourcewrites · BSD licenses
GIMPOpen sourcereads and writes · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
ImageMagickOpen sourcereads and writes · ImageMagick License
ImageMagick (WebAssembly)Open sourcereads and writes · Apache-2.0
Q141647655Open sourcereads and writes · Apache Software License 2.0 / MIT License
Visualization LibraryOpen sourcereads and writes · BSD licenses
AbydosOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
ConverseenOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License, version 3.0
GodotOpen sourcereads · MIT License
imageioOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
LibreOffice DrawOpen sourcereads · Mozilla Public License, version 2.0
Misfit Model 3DOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License / GNU General Public License, version 2.0
OpenFXOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
OpenImageIOOpen sourcereads · BSD licenses
OpenJPEGOpen sourcereads · 2-clause BSD License
OpenPuffOpen sourcereads · GNU Lesser General Public License
Q130252332Open sourcereads · Apache Software License 2.0 / Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International / MIT License
TEAOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
Visualization ToolkitOpen sourcereads · 3-clause BSD License
zgvOpen sourcereads · GNU General Public License
ACD FotoCanvas Litereads and writes
ACDSeereads and writes · proprietary license
ACDSee 5reads and writes
Adobe Illustratorwrites · proprietary license
Adobe PhotoDeluxe Business Edition 1.1reads and writes
Adobe Photoshop Elements 3.0reads and writes
Adobe Premiere 6.0reads and writes
Advanced Photo Editorreads and writes
Affinity Photoreads and writes
ArcSoft PhotoStudioreads and writes
Asepritewrites · proprietary license
Axialis IconWorkshopreads and writes
Clip Studio Paintreads and writes · proprietary license
Corel Painter version 12reads and writes
Corel Painter X3reads and writes
Corel Presentations 11reads and writes
DIAdemwrites
Digital Image Standard 2006 Editorreads and writes

And 82 more in the JSON record.

Convert it

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To	With	Fidelity	Command and losses
BMP 5.0	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PNG	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.icb out.png` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PNG	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
Quite OK Image Format	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick	Lossless	`convert in.icb out.tif` Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
TIFF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossless	in browser Pixels kept; some metadata, colour profiles or layers may be dropped.
PDF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Partial	in browser The image is embedded in a PDF page.
AVIF	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.icb out.gif` Reduced to 256 colours.
GIF 89a	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Reduced to 256 colours.
ICO	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Icons are limited to 256 × 256 pixels.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.icb out.jpg` Lossy compression.
JFIF 1.02	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
JPEG XL	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick	Lossy	`convert in.icb out.webp` Lossy compression.
WebP	ImageMagick (WebAssembly)	Lossy	in browser Lossy compression.

Documentation

kaitai grammar: https://github.com/kaitai-io/kaitai_struct_formats/blob/master/image/tga.ksy

Versions and variants (2)

Truevision TGA Bitmap 1.0Unknown
Truevision TGA Bitmap 2.0Partly documented

Sources

From Converters (FFmpeg, ImageMagick, Pandoc, LibreOffice), WebAssembly engines (ImageMagick, FFmpeg, Pandoc, 7-Zip, GDAL, Assimp, resvg), Just Solve the File Format Problem (File Formats Wiki), Kaitai Struct format gallery, Wikidata. Updated 2026-10-26.

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