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Is it possible to stretch an image (or resize it) to the boundries of the element that it is located in? Basically, I am having a problem with my toasts:


The background I am using is about 1600x1200, which is obviously way bigger than the toasts, and it seems that it's only showing a portion of the image. I am using the same image for my main background of WLM, and it stretches and resizes with WLM, but I can't figure out how it does it.

So is there a way to make a large image scale down to fit within the boundries of the element that it is located in?

Thanks .

won't UMLEFT and stuff stretch it smaller?

Ah, wonderful, that works ^_^. Thank you SpunkyLoveMuff .
Here it is now:

It still needs some touching up to look how I want it, but at least it's mostly readable now .

BTW: I wouldn't use a 1600x1200 image for toast windows. Toasts have a fixed size, so you wouldn't loose quality if you save the image in a smaller size and use that to save filesize in your skin package.

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Originally posted by MenthiX
BTW: I wouldn't use a 1600x1200 image for toast windows. Toasts have a fixed size, so you wouldn't loose quality if you save the image in a smaller size and use that to save filesize in your skin package.

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The reason I am using such a large image is because it is the same image I am using as the main background of my contact list, and the same background as the chat windows. I need it to be fairly sharp quality so it scales well on larger monitors .

You could always select a square and turn that into a new image. So you have the big image for the bg and a cut-out for the toast window.

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff
You could always select a square and turn that into a new image. So you have the big image for the bg and a cut-out for the toast window.

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that will add more size to your final plsk file... I suggest to resize the 1600x1200 image to a 1280x1024 image (reducing a way or his quality, at least 50%) and use the same image for all... this will be very very good for the final result... and you will no longer to see the difference

Currently my .plsk is only 244 KB with the image at 1600x1200 AND everything else included so far. So I am not worried about size at the moment. If my .plsk gets to large, I'll make the image a bit smaller, but for now I am leaving it as it is since it all works and looks good to me.

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Originally posted by warmth
that will add more size to your final plsk file...

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What will? Adding a ~20-30Kb file?

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Originally posted by SpunkyLoveMuff

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Originally posted by warmth
that will add more size to your final plsk file...

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What will? Adding a ~20-30Kb file?

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yes but we were talking here about the use of a big image as a wrong thing cuase the file size and you want to add more???