How to convert your PTG file
- Click the "Select File" button above, and choose your PTG file.
- You'll see a preview.
- Click the "Convert file to..." button to save your file in the format you want.
Convert PTG to another file type
The converter easily converts your PTG file to various formats - free and online. No Photoshop or extra software needed.
- PTG to JPG
- PTG to PNG
- PTG to PDF
- PTG to GIF
- PTG to BMP
- PTG to TIFF
- PTG to TIF
- PTG to WEBP
- PTG to ICO
- PTG to CUR
- PTG to PSD
- PTG to PSB
Convert a file to PTG
The converter also works in reverse, so you can convert other Raster Image formats to PTG with high quality output.
- RAW to PTG
- PNG to PTG
- AI to PTG
- NEF to PTG
- PSB to PTG
- DNG to PTG
- SVG to PTG
- GIF to PTG
- EPS to PTG
- JPG to PTG
- ARW to PTG
- PDF to PTG
About PTG files
The .PTG extension primarily identifies a native painting project created in ArtRage by Ambient Design. These files function as complex containers for digital canvases, storing proprietary data on paint thickness, wetness, lighting, and individual layers to simulate natural media like oil and watercolor. Unlike standard JPG or PNG images, .PTG files are strictly proprietary; they cannot be opened by web browsers, operating system previewers, or even professional editors like Adobe Photoshop without conversion. This lock-in is a common source of problems when sharing work with clients or archiving projects, as the file is useless without the specific host software installed. To make the content accessible, users typically convert these projects to PNG or JPEG for web viewing (which flattens the image and loses texture depth) or to PSD for continued editing in other raster suites. Note that a smaller subset of .PTG files are 3D point cloud grids used by Leica Geosystems in Cyclone software, which are binary data files completely unrelated to image editing.
Use Convert.Guru to open and convert your PTG file.
Users also converted PNG, PDF, XSB, JPG, BTW, BAK, HFA, LGS and X02 files.
The PTG Converter Story
The history of Convert.Guru began over 25 years ago in California with Tom Simondi’s file-format database. A former contributor to Space Shuttle development and a software pioneer of the 1980s, Simondi established a trusted resource for file type analysis that was even referenced by Microsoft Windows XP. Today, we use modern technology to process and convert thousands of file formats while continually improving our PTG converter.