Format | PSD | TARGA |
Company | Adobe | Truevision (now AVID) |
Description | It is Adobe Photoshop\'s native format. | TARGA File Format, is a raster graphics file format. It was the native format of Truevision Inc.'s TARGA and VISTA boards, which were the first graphic cards for IBM-compatible PCs to support Highcolor/truecolor display. |
Benefits | It stores an image with support for most imaging options available in Photoshop. These include layers with masks, color spaces, ICC profiles, transparency, text, alpha channels and spot colors, Clipping paths, and duotone settings. | Many games create screenshot files in TGA format. |
Drawbacks | Large files | Uncompressed large files. Obsolete. |
Metadata | Handles XMP, EXIF or IPTC |
Professional photo conversion and processing. | |
Used by photographers (amateur and professional), design studios, architects, large organizations (NASA, IBM, Chrysler, University hospitals). | |
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