Portrait Image Grainy when Generated with Copilot

[hoary jewel]

Whenever I generate an image with CoPilot and drag it into a token's portrait slot, it ends up looking really grainy, even though the source appears to be high-quality in other image apps (can zoom in pretty far with no distortion/drop in quality).

(See attached screenshots)

I notice the same thing in TokenTool, but only in the part in the upper-right (which is the part I would want to drag into MapTool as the token image). The regular image in the main Portrait window still looks pretty good.

When I use images I find on the net, they don't typically have this problem at a noticeable level.

I'm wonering if it's a color threshold thing... Like maybe CoPilot uses lots of similar colors for texturing/shading, so when only major color contrasts are kept it creates the graininess?

Anyhow, any insight would be great on how I might be able to fix/address it. Thanks much!

MapTool 1.18.5
TokenTool 2.2.2
Win 11

[jagged flume]

Can you try to drag an image from copilot into another app like GIMP or even like a word document? I suspect it is something to do with how copilot and your clipboard are interacting

[untold jungle]

Same issue if you navigate to the file and add it instead of dragging it?

[jagged flume]

and also how many pixels have you set it to in tokentool

[hoary jewel]

So, I don't drag from Copilot, I save the image to desktop and drag it from there.

Pixels looks like it's at 200x200 (the default?)

[hoary jewel]

Yeah, same issue

[jagged flume]

200x200 is going to be grainy. Here's what it looks like at 500, and 200

[hoary jewel]

Wow, that's nice--I tested at 400.400 and it was MUCH better, both in TT and MT. How do I get the portrait to be less grainy in Maptool? Is there a similar setting for that?

[jagged flume]

I dunno, I've not had this problem, but check to see how many pixels are in the saved image. Also if it is square shaped it will display better.

[hoary jewel]

Maybe if I play around with resizing/resolution settings in Gimp with them, I'll figure out something that looks good.

[jagged flume]

The portrait is small so it often just won't look great. For instance here's a token I just worked on, the token itself is much higher res than the portrait

Try some different formats too. If you are using .png, try webp

[hoary jewel]

Man, that looks great. I hven't figured out how to do the pop-out thing yet. Do you use TokenTool for that?

Also, I jsut drastically shrunk one of the Copilot images and it looks much better as a portrait. Crazy that a lower resolution and size results in less "noise."

[jagged flume]

I do it in gimp, just with layers

[hoary jewel]

Very nice.