I have had those results too. It seems that the less that I have to alter something the better the quality.

Originally Posted by ataylor69

I read the tutorial and had already asked Vanilla Sim about the custom painting without frames (Thank you again!) but I do have another question. About the quality images; is there any specific size that works better? I noticed that if I have a larger quality image(say 1000x800 as an example) and make it smaller,even if I sharpen it, it is still blurry and pixelated in game. The smaller pictures I use(say 400x300), if they are good quality and I resize them work better. Is that normal?

Hi, Daisylee is right about the less you have to alter the image the better the quality in my experience too, but if you do need to make something smaller as in the tutorial flatten the layers and then sharpen. After you sharpen try going to edit/fade to about 50% that will help a bit.

In the long run try to find images that are a bit smaller so you don't have to re-size to much.

I'm pretty sure this is a game thing. Just like sometimes with some patterns I get a colors that mush into each other and that has been proven to be a game problem.

Hope this helps you

~Robin

Thank you both! I thought I was just going crazy..........well, maybe I am anyway LOL! I will try what you suggested, Robin, just to see if that works. I think I will try to stick to smaller images from now on, though

Anita