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I appreciate your help.

I have been able to write the TGA Image files by Implementing a codec with JAI. I was hoping to be able to just use Image Magick as JAI (Java Advanced Imaging) hasn't changed or been developed for over 7 years now.

Wishful thinking I suppose.

Thanks again for your time.

I have also looked at the source code and this is why I know that tga.c cannot be used to write the tga, however - the header on a tga-16 is only 18 bytes. So in theory, I believe the bit-shifting could be done with a proper fx: command. The next problem would be writing the header - I thought I ...

Thanks for the attempt. I have learned that whenever you ask Image Magick for a tga file - it only produces a tga with 8 bits per channel as you just experienced. I think the answer is to extract the channels, truncate the 8-bit rgb values to 5-bit rgb values and then add a bitmask alpha layer based ...

I am trying to convert a PNG 8888 to TGA 5551 format. I am a novice with Image Magick and do not know if this is currently possible. I understand that TGA is outdated and used very little today. Can somebody please point me in the right direction?