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If you have the option, you may want to try compressed TIFF files. The use a much more effective compression scheme (also lossles) than compressed TGA files. Compressed TIFFs are nearly as compact as a lossless compression scheme can get. PKzip will generally not compress them any further. The only drawback is that some programs will not read compressed TIFF files. We use them with both 3DS and Adobe Photoshop with no problem. If you are dealing with a lot of files, it is probably not worth manually compressing them, but if you have DeBabelizer on the mac or image alchemy on the dos side, you can use them to batch convert. Beware, though, image alchemy will throw away any alpha channel!