Horrible quality on steam profile picture? PLEASE HELP

[mirakel]

Hey.
So I uploaded some pictures as a profile picture but every picture becomes really bad quality?
Every one of them is in the right dimensions, 184x184.
They all look really good and really high quality in windows picture viewer and everywhere else.
It's like steam takes the picture and just.. ♥♥♥♥♥ it up.

If someone's got an idea of what to do, please help. Thanks.

[El Capybara]

what is the format the pic is in? try PNG.

[mirakel]

Originally posted by Guts:

what is the format the pic is in? try PNG.

Everyone of them is PNG, and I've tried other formats aswell. Doesn't work.

[Habits]

I usually use .jpg's which are larger than 184x184. I seem to have better luck when my picture gets downscaled. I've used .png's that are larger and they still come out pixelated.

[El Capybara]

yeah, try upscaling to a higher res and try uploading it. I regularly use way bigger images and the compression is never that bad, even in jpegs.

[mirakel]

Originally posted by Guts:

yeah, try upscaling to a higher res and try uploading it. I regularly use way bigger images and the compression is never that bad, even in jpegs.

Originally posted by Like A Sir:

I usually use .jpg's which are larger than 184x184. I seem to have better luck when my picture gets downgraded. I've used .png's that are are larger and they still come out pixelated.

Yeahh.. I tried to use 368x368 once, and upload it, but steam said i couldn't upload it/use it.. Will try again!

[El Capybara]

Originally posted by MIRΛKEL:

Originally posted by Guts:

yeah, try upscaling to a higher res and try uploading it. I regularly use way bigger images and the compression is never that bad, even in jpegs.

Originally posted by Like A Sir:

I usually use .jpg's which are larger than 184x184. I seem to have better luck when my picture gets downgraded. I've used .png's that are are larger and they still come out pixelated.

Yeahh.. I tried to use 368x368 once, and upload it, but steam said i couldn't upload it/use it.. Will try again!

I know for a fact it can, it just has to be under 200kbs. .jpeg should work fine if its too big in PNG. should look much better than it does now in any case.

[Perilous]

never had a problem like that, always just used jpeg format and made sure the original was 184x184 while being in its original ratio/compression

[Cabo Cr0x ♿]

That is bug

[mirakel]

Yeah my friend says it's a steam update? But I'm not sure.

Originally posted by MR. Teemo:

That is bug

Trying that again. Right now it's 41kb.

Originally posted by You Know Nuthin, Jon Sneu:

never had a problem like that, always just used jpeg format and made sure the original was 184x184 while being in its original ratio/compression

[Cabo Cr0x ♿]

i dont know man :/

[mirakel]

My guess is that it's Steam. Just uploaded a pic that was 552x552, still ♥♥♥♥.

[Catie]

Steam forces the image to be compressed to a 184x184 JPEG with the quality of 8 out of 10. It is like this for everyone, nothing you can do about it.

[mirakel]

Thanks a lot for this mate. +rep for all of you above.

Originally posted by Hi.:

Steam forces the image to be compressed to a 184x184 JPEG with the quality of 8 out of 10. It is like this for everyone, nothing you can do about it.

[El Capybara]

actually I dont think thats true. I still think your images quality is below par: I regularly change my avatar and i've never noticed the awful compression yours seems to have.

edit: actually I -know- its true (that Steam does infact compress the image to a low quality), I just think it shouldn't look AS bad.

[mirakel]

Let me change to the purple one, look at the quality of this one.