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Hype Feb 25, 2018 @ 12:04pm

Targa file

Hello guys, could somebody please help me with saving targa file in photoshop?

Lets say I have an idea how to do part of a gun, so I make my idea and then save the file and close photoshop. Then I get another idea, so I open the targa file again, but all layers went automatically into background layer and no layers have been saved. Is there a way how to keep layers how I make them even when I close photoshop please?

Thank you for any comments.

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Blaagh Feb 25, 2018 @ 12:28pm

no there are no layers in .tga files. you have to keep a save as photoshop project file to alter and edit

Hype Feb 25, 2018 @ 2:09pm

Originally posted by Mario (Super) Mario:
no there are no layers in .tga files. you have to keep a save as photoshop project file to alter and edit

thank you for your answer :) so you just save your work as .psd and then just convert everything into smart object and import in the .tga file?

Zekiran Feb 25, 2018 @ 3:43pm

What exactly are you doing with the targa file? Because... I haven't even seen them in use for more than a decade. They're a very outdated picture file.

Hype Feb 25, 2018 @ 4:21pm

I am trying to create a gun skin, is there another option how to create skins then?

Zekiran Feb 25, 2018 @ 5:09pm

Wouldn't that depend on what game you're intending to put it in? Every game's systems will require different file types, and tga... I don't even know when the last game I played used them, and even then it was purely as a screenshot saving option.

Hype Feb 26, 2018 @ 6:39am

I am trying to do some skins to Counter Strike Global Offensive, I found out on Google that they use this kind of format... Have you ever tried to make skins in this game?