TGA to PNG Converter

What happens when you convert TGA to PNG

• The image is decoded and written as a lossless 32-bit PNG.
• Browsers cannot read TGA, so this page includes its own TGA reader. It handles uncompressed and run-length compressed files at 8, 16, 24 and 32 bits, and keeps the alpha channel.

How to convert TGA to PNG online

1. Press "Choose TGA files" and select one or more files, or drag them onto the box. You can add files of any size your device can hold in memory.
2. Adjust the settings if you need to. The output is lossless, so there is no quality setting to worry about.
3. Press "Convert to PNG". Images convert in a second or two each.
4. Save each PNG with its download button. Close the tab and every trace of the files is gone from memory.

Why convert TGA to PNG?

TGA files usually come from game textures, 3D rendering and video effects work. People convert them to PNG because PNG keeps sharp edges, text and transparency without any loss.

In short, TGA is good at what it was made for, and PNG is the more practical choice when the file has to open, upload or print somewhere else. TGA does not open in browsers; Photoshop, GIMP and game engines read it, while PNG opens in every browser and image viewer.

How to convert TGA to PNG on Windows, Mac, iPhone and Android

On Windows

Open this page in Chrome, Edge or Firefox, drag your TGA files in from File Explorer, and press Convert. Each PNG is saved to your Downloads folder. Paint can also re-save an image as PNG with Save as, provided Windows can open the TGA in the first place.

On a Mac

Safari, Chrome and Firefox all work. Drag the TGA files from Finder onto the drop zone and the PNG files land in Downloads. Preview can do single images too: open the file, choose File, then Export, and pick PNG.

On iPhone and iPad

Open the page in Safari and tap Choose TGA files. You can pick from Photos or from the Files app. The converted PNG appears in Files, in the Downloads folder; to put it in your photo library, open it there, tap Share and choose Save Image.

On Android

Open the page in Chrome, tap Choose TGA files and pick them from Files or your gallery. The PNG is saved to the Download folder, where any file manager can find it.

Best settings for TGA to PNG

PNG is written losslessly, so there is no quality setting to get wrong. The Maximum width setting is there if you need a smaller image: it scales down before saving and never scales up.

TGA vs PNG: the differences

About TGA and PNG files

What is a TGA file?

TGA, also called Targa, stores pixels uncompressed or with simple run-length compression, plus an alpha channel. Its simplicity is why game engines and 3D tools still use it for textures decades after it was created.

What is a PNG file?

PNG compresses without losing a single pixel, so screenshots and text stay razor sharp, but a photograph saved as PNG is often three to five times the size of the same photo as JPG.

TGA to PNG not working? Common problems

• Colours look slightly different. Browsers convert images to the standard sRGB colour space when they decode them, so wide-gamut and CMYK images can shift a little.
• A phone photo comes out upright even though it looked sideways elsewhere. That is correct: the rotation stored in the photo is applied during conversion, so the PNG is always the right way up.
• The file is bigger than expected. It depends on the settings. At the defaults, the PNG usually comes out close in size to the TGA; lower the quality for a smaller file.

Convert TGA to PNG from the command line

If you work in a terminal, ImageMagick converts TGA to PNG in one line:

magick input.tga output.png

To convert every TGA in a folder at once, use magick mogrify -format png *.tga. The converter on this page does the same job without installing anything.