The question mark pictures (?)

[作弊玩家]

in the game my profile picture is a bit buggy in the game and that has been nerging me for days, I have the picture from google images and since then I have tried a lot of other pictures but it cannot be fixed. So my question is could you set my Steamprofielbild back to default as if I had never put another image in because I can't find anywhere how to do it and can't find any information that I can fix my problem

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

This is the ? avatar...

https://steamcdn-a.akamaihd.net/steamcommunity/public/images/avatars/fe/fef49e7fa7e1997310d705b2a6158ff8dc1cdfeb_full.jpg

[AustrAlien2010]

It is caused by resizing the image into .jpg format. You may be able to re-create the image, to render it in a higher quality, without those visual artifacts caused by the compression of that graphic data, if you want a clearer image. But you have to do that yourself, unless VALVe does it.

There is graphic data missing. That's why it is like that. It doesn't know how to draw it proper. The benefit to that is that the file has a smaller size, this is advantages for low-bandwidth connections.

[Jaunitta 🌸]

I use either a jpg or png size for Avatar on Steam anywhere between 900x900 or smaller 200x200 . All work fine. You get choose which size to use.
As your profile is fully provite, are you nolonger a limited account?
If you use a Google image did you save it as jpg or png?
No copyrights on it?
Make sure you test with non copyrighted image.

[作弊玩家]

in my 2 profile I didn’t put a picture and everything works that’s just very weird, can you fix it somehow?

[AustrAlien2010]

I would have to try that first. Possibly I can manually fix that. Yes. But I am too tired to put effort into this myself. You can do it. You have my support.

It needs to be re-created in a higher quality, if you want it fixed.

It would be easier for me, if VALVe does this for you, instead of me, because is their image after all. I can only replace VALVe's image by an enhanced version, and I don't know how they feel about that, when I start improving their image, just for you.

You really like that question mark, don't you?

[作弊玩家]

hahaha ye i like this picture i dont know why xDD
so how can i get this picture in a higher quality and how can i ask valve to fix my problems I don't think they'll improve it for me too xDDD

[AustrAlien2010]

You need image/photo editing software for that. Clean up the image, and then save the image in a higher quality.

Anyway, it is a .jpg image, so there is always data loss. There is no escape from it. I am not sure if you can even use a different format on Steam. The image may get converted to .jpg no matter what you upload. I am not sure. That really depends on how they manage their things on their side.

You can't always enlarge/decrease the visual size of an image and retain the same image quality. And Steam tends to use a lot of different sizes for displaying avatars. Even if you make them look clean at one size, at another size they may look smudged again.

Take for example my avatar. It looks smudged on the forum when it gets enlarged, but in Steam Friends is looks sharp. There is no way to predict what the image quality will be without testing.



Take a close look at any of the custom avatars here. They all look smudged. Even VALVe employees look smudged.
The only avatars that don't look smudged, are the ones from the point shop.

[作弊玩家]

Where is the Point shop?
Thank you for helping btw

[cSg|mc-Hotsauce]

Originally posted by Zeus‘:

Where is the Point shop?
Thank you for helping btw :boomer:

Hover over Store and click Points Shop.