Problem with scenery

Wendelande25

Hello everyone,

short question. I want to upload a scenery which I made. I saved it as a jpg.file with a resolution of 1920x1080. When I upload it, the quality looks awful, but why? Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you in advance and greetings from Germany.

deck26

If you're loading it as a backdrop it will be changed to 480 x 360. You might be better making sure it is that size yourself before uploading.

Wendelande25

deck26 wrote:
If you're loading it as a backdrop it will be changed to 480 x 360. You might be better making sure it is that size yourself before uploading.

I tried this several times before but the quality was still the same as when i uploaded it normally. The background itself looks very good, only when I upload it on Scratch as a scenery the quality gets bad

StrangeMagic32

can I see the image that you're trying get in scratch?

Wendelande25

StrangeMagic32 wrote:
can I see the image that you're trying get in scratch?

Yes you can. It doesn't matter which picture I upload, when I do so, the quality looks awful.
http://www.planet-wissen.de/kultur/architektur/wolkenkratzer/mainhattenskylinegjpg100~_v-original.jpg <- this picture

So basically I downloaded this picture and saved it on my desktop. When I upload it on Scratch the quality goes from good to bad.
It happenes with every picture.

Last edited by Wendelande25 (Sept. 18, 2017 19:02:05)

StrangeMagic32

Okay I think that the best that you can get is making it 480 x 360 because I don't think that you can get better quality than that.

asivi

deck26 wrote:
If you're loading it as a backdrop it will be changed to 480 x 360. You might be better making sure it is that size yourself before uploading.

Last edited by asivi (Sept. 18, 2017 20:01:08)

Warriorbuilds3

Wendelande25 wrote:
Hello everyone,

short question. I want to upload a scenery which I made. I saved it as a jpg.file with a resolution of 1920x1080. When I upload it, the quality looks awful, but why? Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you in advance and greetings from Germany.

There are two possibilities:
1). The file is too big for scratch to upload, meaning it either will have terrible quality or will just be a black screen.
2). The picture itself is too big and (Assuming that it's bitmap) has to be downsized and will ensure terrible quality.
And if your wondering 1 GB is cutting it close to scratch's upload limit.
I'm happy to help and welcome to scratch!

Wendelande25

asivi wrote:
deck26 wrote:
If you're loading it as a backdrop it will be changed to 480 x 360. You might be better making sure it is that size yourself before uploading.

Do that @dec26 said.
Also import the image as a vector, open the costume editor with Scractch cat, select the costume and click clear, then import.

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/175216143/

Okay, I did it exactly like you told me. When I press fullscreen the picture still looks bad.

Wendelande25

Warriorbuilds3 wrote:
Wendelande25 wrote:
Hello everyone,

short question. I want to upload a scenery which I made. I saved it as a jpg.file with a resolution of 1920x1080. When I upload it, the quality looks awful, but why? Can anybody tell me what I'm doing wrong?

Thank you in advance and greetings from Germany.
There are two possibilities:
1). The file is too big for scratch to upload, meaning it either will have terrible quality or will just be a black screen.
2). The picture itself is too big and (Assuming that it's bitmap) has to be downsized and will ensure terrible quality.
And if your wondering 1 GB is cutting it close to scratch's upload limit.
I'm happy to help and welcome to scratch!

Well the file is 773 KB.
And it is 1920x1080 but is this too big?

asivi

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/175216143/ deleted

Last edited by asivi (Sept. 18, 2017 21:02:50)

asivi

Wendelande25 wrote:
Well the file is 773 KB.
And it is 1920x1080 but is this too big?

Yes, it is.

Wendelande25

asivi wrote:
Take a look again? …

https://scratch.mit.edu/projects/175216143/

Yes that looks quite good. How did you do this?

asivi

I did it by opening th SB2 file(offline) with a decompressor(7zip) and replacing the tiny PNG version with a bigger PNG version. (not vector)
Do not open the costume editor or it will be cropped.

Last edited by asivi (Sept. 18, 2017 20:27:25)

Wendelande25

asivi wrote:
I did it by opening th SB2 file(offline) with a decompressor(7zip) and replacing the tiny PNG version with a bigger PNG version. (not vector)
Do not open the costume editor or it will be cropped.

Okay thank you very much, I tried it by myself with a new picture but its not working, maybe because I'm tired.

Minecraftian4304

Go to Vector, and click the “upload” button in the vector editing part.

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