Tuesday, February 17, 2009

Flag images and resizing them

The flag image size is 668 pixels wide x 150 pixels deep. Your image will need to be that size in order to work.

The system will upsize anything you give it to fill the space. For example, if you upload something that is 339 x 75, it will double it (and probably make it blurry). Likewise, if it is 1336 x 300, it will halve it.

If your image is not a proportion of the size specified, it will crop it to fit. To prevent this, in Photoshop or the equivalent program, you'll need to alter the image so that when it does crop, it will crop white space (or at least part of the image you don't care about) OR so that you can make it a variation of that proportion so it fits exactly.

One example I recently came across was 320 pixels wide by 49 pixels deep. In this example, you would need to make the image deeper -- to about 72 pixels -- before starting.