Some covers look horrible.

[Quantum Funk]

The horizontal covers looked perfect and we were able to customize them. These new vertical covers aren't only not-customizable, but there's also a lot of games wich don't have a proper vertical cover, and they look horrible.
There should be an option to go back to the original horizontal covers, or force every publisher with no exception (relased and to be released games) to make a vertical cover.

[GrungePunk]

Right click on image you want to replace>Manage>Set custom artwork

I've been making updated grid images for my non steam games all morning. Base resolution is 224x333. Any size png or jpg will work as long as it's constrained to those proportions when resizing your template in Photoshop or GIMP. You just wouldn't want to go smaller than that because Steam would end up enlarging them which would reduce the image quality.

[Snivets]

Thank you so much for including this feature and option, devs!

[Quantum Funk]

Originally posted by GrungePunk:

Right click on image you want to replace>Manage>Set custom artwork

I've been making updated grid images for my non steam games all morning. Base resolution is 224x333. Any size png or jpg will work as long as it's constrained to those proportions when resizing your template in Photoshop or GIMP. You just wouldn't want to go smaller than that because Steam would end up enlarging them which would reduce the image quality.

I suck at image editing, and I'm probably not the only one.

I think i'll just wait for a page like Steam Banners to surge, and use the ones published in there.

[cenodis]

To be fair the change to vertical covers is fairly recent and not all game devs had the time/resources to update their titles with proper covers yet.

The publishing of game covers is a responsibility of the individual game devs and there is little Valve can do. My recommendation is just to wait a bit until everyone has caught on. Alternatively you can always try to make your own covers.

[Quantum Funk]

Originally posted by cenodis:

To be fair the change to vertical covers is fairly recent and not all game devs had the time/resources to update their titles with proper covers yet.

The publishing of game covers is a responsibility of the individual game devs and there is little Valve can do. My recommendation is just to wait a bit until everyone has caught on. Alternatively you can always try to make your own covers.

Well, maybe. But it's still very annoying, and there's no guarantee that we will get a new cover for every game ever made.

[cenodis]

Originally posted by Boludo.:

Originally posted by cenodis:

To be fair the change to vertical covers is fairly recent and not all game devs had the time/resources to update their titles with proper covers yet.

The publishing of game covers is a responsibility of the individual game devs and there is little Valve can do. My recommendation is just to wait a bit until everyone has caught on. Alternatively you can always try to make your own covers.

Well, maybe. But it's still very annoying, and there's no guarantee that we will get a new cover for every game ever made.

That's true. But that problem will always exist for every major change. In case a dev does not follow through and the game is popular enough chances are someone is going to make an unofficial cover for it. Other than that its just a game of luck.

While I don't know your library I do not have such a big problem with horizontal covers. Most of my games already have vertical versions and those that don't are games that will most likely not get any (like the now delisted Ducktales for instance).

[Quantum Funk]

Originally posted by cenodis:

Originally posted by Boludo.:

Well, maybe. But it's still very annoying, and there's no guarantee that we will get a new cover for every game ever made.

That's true. But that problem will always exist for every major change. In case a dev does not follow through and the game is popular enough chances are someone is going to make an unofficial cover for it. Other than that its just a game of luck.

While I don't know your library I do not have such a big problem with horizontal covers. Most of my games already have vertical versions and those that don't are games that will most likely not get any (like the now delisted Ducktales for instance).

There you have it. There are certain games wich aren't very likely to get updated covers, and we wouldn't have had this problem if there was an option to go back to horizontal covers.

And yes, I do have a lot of games without updated covers. The popular indies and AAA games will probably get it in the near future, but some games that aren't as popular may just stick with the og covers. Like Kero Blaster or Galaxy of Pen & Paper.

[Sepioth]

Originally posted by Boludo.:

I suck at image editing, and I'm probably not the only one.

I think i'll just wait for a page like Steam Banners to surge, and use the ones published in there.

There are already places to get images...

For one you can use Google...
also there are these sites..
https://www.reddit.com/r/steamgrid/new/
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1mTI6VqvHKwWfyg3hUdhCg1nM0NhlXzLX
https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1CvWsu3FbTyYWlo1EOqVfWukFXDX0laPW

The default image size used by Valve seems to be 300x450 (600x900) This is the size that they Officially use (you can see them in \Steam\appcache\librarycache)

Custom images get stored in \Steam\userdata\XXXXXXXXX\config\grid.
They get renamed to AppID followed by the letter p.png (APPIDp.png) You can get the AppID from the games store page URL.

[Sepioth]

they are actually not using 600x900 though

https://imgur.com/a/rBbwDiL

As you can see the file is named 600x900 but actual image size is 300x450

["Nite Owl" Joe™]

Originally posted by Boludo.:

Originally posted by cenodis:

That's true. But that problem will always exist for every major change. In case a dev does not follow through and the game is popular enough chances are someone is going to make an unofficial cover for it. Other than that its just a game of luck.

While I don't know your library I do not have such a big problem with horizontal covers. Most of my games already have vertical versions and those that don't are games that will most likely not get any (like the now delisted Ducktales for instance).

There you have it. There are certain games wich aren't very likely to get updated covers, and we wouldn't have had this problem if there was an option to go back to horizontal covers.

And yes, I do have a lot of games without updated covers. The popular indies and AAA games will probably get it in the near future, but some games that aren't as popular may just stick with the og covers. Like Kero Blaster or Galaxy of Pen & Paper.

This is a ridiculous complaint. Just find the cover art on Google, save it to a folder and set it. Problem solved. It's what I did for a handful of mine and my library looks dope right now. In fact, given that most cover art is created for actual game cases- most of it it portrait oriented, not landscape. So most game covers, without any tweaking or editing necessary, would do fine for the library now.

[Sepioth]

There just needs to be an easier/faster way to update games if we want to.

As it stands its to time consuming to do large libraries when you have to select games one at a time and navigate menus to set custom art.

The ability to drag and drop from my Desktop the the game in steam and have it apply it would be great.

Sidenote: You can delete the original files you downloaded as steam copies them to the clients install folder (\Steam\userdata\########\config\grid)

[Sepioth]

Originally posted by Boludo.:

Originally posted by cenodis:

That's true. But that problem will always exist for every major change. In case a dev does not follow through and the game is popular enough chances are someone is going to make an unofficial cover for it. Other than that its just a game of luck.

While I don't know your library I do not have such a big problem with horizontal covers. Most of my games already have vertical versions and those that don't are games that will most likely not get any (like the now delisted Ducktales for instance).

There you have it. There are certain games wich aren't very likely to get updated covers, and we wouldn't have had this problem if there was an option to go back to horizontal covers.

And yes, I do have a lot of games without updated covers. The popular indies and AAA games will probably get it in the near future, but some games that aren't as popular may just stick with the og covers. Like Kero Blaster or Galaxy of Pen & Paper.

Here is one for Galaxy of Pen & Paper...
https://imgur.com/a/xXGJtLi

and Kero Blasters
https://imgur.com/a/rZRhigO (I had to resize it to 600x900).

Both found using google searching for:
"Name of game" Box art
"Name of game" cover art
"Name of game"