Convert TGA to BMP — Free Online Converter

TGA (Targa) is Truevision's raster image format, widely used in game development and 3D rendering pipelines. TGA supports 8, 16, 24, and 32-bit color depths with optional RLE compression and a dedicated alpha channel, making it a staple format for game textures, sprite sheets, and rendered output from 3D applications like Maya, Blender, and 3ds Max. BMP (Bitmap) is Windows' native uncompressed raster format that stores raw pixel data readable by virtually any software.

Converting TGA to BMP is necessary when TGA textures and rendered images need to be used in applications or systems that do not recognize the TGA format. While TGA is ubiquitous in game development studios, it is not supported by most consumer applications, office software, or web browsers.

Many business applications, documentation tools, and presentation software cannot open TGA files. Converting TGA rendered output to BMP provides a universally readable uncompressed image that preserves every pixel value. BMP is also the expected input for certain firmware, embedded display controllers, and legacy Windows applications.

BMP's uncompressed nature makes it ideal as an intermediate format for quality-sensitive workflows. When TGA textures need to pass through processing pipelines that expect raw pixel data, BMP provides the cleanest representation without introducing any compression artifacts.