About this tool
When a photo or downloaded image needs to become a texture for a tool that only reads TGA, this converter does it in one step and in your browser. The result is a 32-bit TGA (RLE-compressed by default) that Unity, Unreal, Blender, and older engines accept without complaint.
About the formats: JPG (JPEG) is a lossy format built for photographs. It compresses aggressively, produces small files, and opens on every device ever made, but it cannot store transparency and each re-save costs a little quality. TGA (Truevision Targa) is a simple, lossless image format from the 1980s that game engines and 3D tools never stopped using: Unity, Unreal, Source, Blender, and countless modding pipelines accept it, and it stores an alpha channel without the premultiplication surprises of other formats. Web browsers and most viewers cannot open it.
How to use it
- Drop your JPG files into the box above, or click to browse. Nothing is uploaded.
- Adjust the options if you want; the defaults suit most files.
- Click Convert to TGA and wait a moment.
- Download the results individually or all at once as a ZIP.
Questions
Does converting JPG to TGA improve quality?
No. TGA stores the decoded JPG pixels losslessly, so the quality is the same as the JPG; it just stops any further loss.
Is it free, are files uploaded, which browsers work: the general questions are answered once for the whole site.