Transparency in TGA images

I am trying to make a Targa file with a transparent background in CS4. Searching help pages and google has given me no answers aside from saving as .gif or .png.
Can anyone either step me through or redirect me to somewhere that can tell me how I can make a transparent TGA IN CS4. I dont want to go and get PS7 or CS2 or anything else, and the image MUST be a Targa.
Thanks in advance.

OK. Then you can optimize your loop a little by precalculating your color key:
int colorKey = 0xff000000 | TRANSPARENT_COLOR;
// notice I also flipped the order we iterate over the array since
// then you don't have to access rgbData.length (slower than a local var) every
// iteration, and comparing to 0 can be slightly faster.
for (int i = rgbData.length; i >= 0; ++i) {
if (rgbData[i] = colorKey) {
rgbData[i] = TRANSPARENT_COLOR;
}These are all micro-optimizations, and I don't know how much faster the routine will run. Maybe you need to redesign (for example call this slow routine only in places where it isn't time-critical like before each level).
shmoove

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