.TGA File Extension

Are you having difficulty opening a file that ends with .TGA? Such files can be executed only by certain programs. If you cannot open the .TGA file, it can be due to the following reasons: either you do not have an appropriate program to open it, or your file association is corrupted. For more information about this extension, please read the article below.

What is a .TGA file?

.TGA file belongs to the category of Raster Image Files used in operating systems such as Windows 11, 10, Windows 7, Windows 8 / 8.1, Windows Vista, Windows XP.

tga

Developer: Avid Technology

File Type: Targa Graphic

Category: Raster Image Files

Format: Binary

.TGA file is associated with Targa Graphic developed by Avid Technology, has a Binary Format and belongs to Raster Image Files category.

A TGA file contains a Targa (Truevision Advanced Raster Graphics Adapter) bitmap of graphics file format, which Truevision created in 1984 for its video cards. The format supports graphics with different color depths and transparency effects, mainly used to store textures for 3D video games.

More information

Several ranges of bits can be contained in the TGA format — 8, 16, 24, and 32 bits. Each color of an image is defined using a palette. Each pixel of an image is characterized by a certain number of bits, depending on the color depth. This is why TGA files are pretty large data sets. But due to efficient lossless sequential coding, the file can be compressed and thus significantly reduced in size.

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