TGA libraries for PHP

• GD is bundled with PHP. Since PHP 7.4 imagecreatefromtga reads 24 and 32-bit true-color TGA files, raw or RLE. GD can’t write TGA.
• Imagick is the ImageMagick extension: it reads every TGA variant and writes raw or RLE TGA. Use it when you need to create TGA files or open palette and grayscale ones.

• GD GD is the image extension bundled with PHP. How to read TGA (Targa) files with imagecreatefromtga, convert TGA to PNG or JPEG, and which variants work.
• Imagick Imagick is the ImageMagick extension for PHP. How to read and write TGA files, convert TGA to PNG and back, write RLE TGA and get the size without decoding.