Alpha Channel Preservation

Note the red circle, how can I convert a .tif to a .tga and preserve this channel as is, without using Adobe Photoshop to flatten it, I've tried FreeImage / DevIL and all manner of other tools, but no luck either I'm not using them right or there just not supporting the alpha channel what so ever.

Thanks, for any help you lot can give me.

When you have the "Save as..." dialog window open there's a little button "Alpha Channels". If that doesn't work try changeing layer name to "Alpha" and then try again.

you misunderstood me, the alpha channel is in the tif, I need something other than adobe photoshop to convert that tif including it's alpha channel to a tga to be converted to a dds, or to flatten the tif with the alpha channel intact as it appears in photoshop.

hopefully at least nvdxt.exe supports a flat tif with this alpha channel, because it sure doesn't support them expanded.

XnView will do that. http://www.xnview.com

Do you know what you've just done?

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You put an end to 3 days of pure unadulterated heartache and anguish thank you very much sir.

I know I'm too late but I had to write several functions to convert uncompressed tif images with alpha, and tga images with alpha , compressed or uncompressed, to other formats for a game I was/am working on. The tga format is pretty simple, and once you get your head around the tif structure with its tags it is not too hard either.