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General => Troubleshooting => Topic started by: BunnyTheLifeguard on July 02, 2007, 04:25:15 pm

Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: BunnyTheLifeguard on July 02, 2007, 04:25:15 pm: Hello.
Do you know any FREE TGA to JPG converters or something i can view TGA's in?
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: .f0rqu3 on July 02, 2007, 04:36:51 pm: gimp, irfanview (win)
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: TinMan on July 02, 2007, 04:45:02 pm: Gimp FTW.
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Computer[SU] on July 02, 2007, 07:53:47 pm: Well, I'm on a Mac and I like to use Quicksilver (by Blacktree, free) with the image manipulation plugin. It's literally three keystrokes to batch convert all my TGAs to JPGs for uploading. I can also scale them down if they are still too big.
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: AKAnotu on July 02, 2007, 09:54:31 pm: i just pop open prievew, hit save as, and change it to a .jpg. it automatically converts, i have quicksiver but never bother to use it, it's a bit intimidating for me
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Plague Bringer on July 02, 2007, 10:21:52 pm: Quote from: "TinMan"
Gimp FTW.
Paint.net ftw more.
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: BULLSEYE@linux.be on July 02, 2007, 10:27:24 pm: i just open it in gimp

and make a .jpg of it

gimp also gives me the ability to change the picture (add text,...)
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Odin on July 03, 2007, 02:43:14 am: Please note that saving as a JPG removes the alpha channel, as it's not supported in the JPG format.
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Post by: benmachine on July 03, 2007, 02:26:08 pm: ...and many of the tga files Tremulous uses are just alpha channels.
Before I understood how to use them in Photoshop, I was opening a lot of white squares :P
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Kaleo on July 03, 2007, 03:35:39 pm: Imagewell
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Lava Croft on July 04, 2007, 06:38:28 am: Why would you want to convert lossless TGA images into compressed, lossy JPEG images? Please stick with the TGA format as much as possible, it yields the best results.

Try GQview for linux or Irfanview for windows. While people correctly state GIMP can also view TGA images, it's a bit impractical since GIMP is not an image viewer at heart, but an image editor.
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Post by: Lakitu7 on July 04, 2007, 06:54:27 am: So if he wants lossless he can use PNG. At least it won't be the giant waste of space that tga files are.
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Odin on July 04, 2007, 08:08:54 pm: Lossless images compress better than jpg's.
Title: TGA to JPG
Post by: Computer[SU] on July 09, 2007, 05:17:42 pm: Quote from: "AKAnotu"
i just pop open prievew, hit save as, and change it to a .jpg. it automatically converts, i have quicksiver but never bother to use it, it's a bit intimidating for me

AKA you should really get into it, the power is unbelievable. I was intimidated at first too, but it's easy to learn and about a week after you start you will wonder how you ever survived without it.