Uploaded pictures, are to small.

[Bayareabuggs]

Hello GPM, I have a question about uploading pictures to posts when people ask for an in game picture. I use fraps to take the picture than fraps saves the picture as a BNG file so I use GIMP 2 to change it to a PNG file so than I can upload it, but the problem is it's to small. How do I get the picture to be bigger? I would like to be able to help people out by showing them in game pictures but I can figure out how to make it bigger. Thank you in advance for the help.

[MoonShine]

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[Ryan01]

Are you saying that our site makes the pictures become to small, or are you saying that your editing program makes it to small ?

[Dhruv]

Uncheck the option "Retrieve remote file and reference locally",while uploading via GPM's integrated image uploader.This option,when checked,converts the pic to smallest possible size,more like a thumbnail.
I hope this will resolve the issue.Good luck!

[Ryan01]

Uncheck the option "Retrieve remote file and reference locally",while uploading via GPM's integrated image uploader.This option,when checked,converts the pic to smallest possible size,more like a thumbnail.
I hope this will resolve the issue.Good luck!
+1 Thanks for your help.

[Dhruv]

+1 Thanks for your help.
My pleasure.

[l3ubba]

Also you can go in FRAPS and on the screenshots tab there is an section called "Image Format" right below where you can set the screenshot hot key and it allows you to change what the image is saved as automatically so you don't have to convert it. It allows screenshots to be saved as "BMP", "JPG", "PNG", and "TGA". Most websites allow you to use PNG or JPG, however I recommend PNG because it uses lossless data compression as opposed to JPG which uses lossy data compression.

[Dhruv]

Also you can go in FRAPS and on the screenshots tab there is an section called "Image Format" right below where you can set the screenshot hot key and it allows you to change what the image is saved as automatically so you don't have to convert it. It allows screenshots to be saved as "BMP", "JPG", "PNG", and "TGA". Most websites allow you to use PNG or JPG, however I recommend PNG because it uses lossless data compression as opposed to JPG which uses lossy data compression.
+1
And TIFF TARGA are even better because they give almost no loss of data while saving.