magisk manager gives me a file named magisk_patched.img, but I need a tar file instea

[AndreM962]

I need a tar file because ODIN doesn't accept img files. Magisk used to be able to give a tar file, what happened?
As long as I'm unable to figure out how to make this work, rooting my device will be impossible. I don't want to give up now, not after getting through so many headaches...

 

[Didgeridoohan]

Did you feed it a tar file? If you do it should give a tar file as output.

 

[AndreM962]

Did you feed it a tar file? If you do it should give a tar file as output.

That's the problem, I only have a .img file, and have no idea how to turn it into a .tar file, or how to get one from my firmware. There are plenty of guides around on how to convert .img into .tar, but I don't know whether they work for this purpose. I would appreciate some guidance here.