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Title: Targa Images Post by: Alkiera on April 27, 2004, 11:22:38 PM The other night people were complaining on TS about the Targa file format that CoH uses. Some reasons were given, the ones I feel most apply are that a) it's very simple, and b) no royalties.
Apparently they've managed to do something odd with it, because tho I've used .tga files for inputting textures into my own graphics programs before, and used Paint Shop Pro 5 to edit them, PSP5 chokes on the screenshots. However, IrfanView (http://www.irfanview.com/) works great for viewing and converting them, and is freeware. -- Alkiera EDIT: 'cause bbcode is Hard. Title: Targa Images Post by: schild on April 27, 2004, 11:24:25 PM Adobe Photoshop CS isn't freeware? OH NOES!
Title: Targa Images Post by: Alkiera on April 27, 2004, 11:37:50 PM Quote from: schild Adobe Photoshop CS isn't freeware? OH NOES! Quote from: Adobe Website Adobe Store price US$649.00 Full That'd be a 'No'. I'm not one to nitpic over such things, I've plenty of cracked/copied/etc software on my machine, some that I even use regularly, like the aforementioned PSP5. Some people do, however, have scruples, or prefer to use freeware when possible. Thus, I posted a freeware solution. -- Alkiera Title: Targa Images Post by: schild on April 27, 2004, 11:49:22 PM Whoa. I was joking. I have a student copy. Yeowch, I guess I got pwnzered.
Title: Targa Images Post by: Alrindel on April 28, 2004, 12:25:36 AM Yeah, Paint Shop Pro and Gimp can't deal with whatever CoH is putting in those files. I don't have Photoshop, so I ended up using the Quicktime Picture Viewer to open them, then pasting them into PSP. I don't have a problem per se with using the Targa format - DAOC did the same - but I wish they'd fix their TGA export so it wrote kosher files.
Title: Targa Images Post by: DarkDryad on April 28, 2004, 07:23:22 AM hummm I opend em right up in PsP5 on my pc..... boggle.
Title: Targa Images Post by: Alrindel on April 28, 2004, 07:43:49 AM Maybe they fixed it? I haven't tried since beta...
Title: Targa Images Post by: geldonyetich on April 28, 2004, 11:11:09 AM I use another freeware app called Futuris Imager (http://www.knives-out.org/imager/). Works like a charm, though it's less a paint program and more an image displayer and converter.
Title: Targa Images Post by: DarkDryad on April 28, 2004, 11:14:23 AM Those were in beta. I had to leak info to special people I know :P
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