If you’re only enjoying your NFTs from the comfort of your tech toys and digital wallets, screenshots will probably suffice. But if you want to make high quality prints of your NFTs or expand their utilities into irl merch, your images need to be high quality as well.
High Res JPEGS Matter!
Let’s start by taking a look at this image below:
I took an image of my Undead Ape Dao NFT and I made one into a pixelated version to simulate a low resolution photo enlarged beyond its’ limitations. Even though both the high res and low res PNGs were used to print on mugs and the print areas are relatively small, you can see that the prints would probably come out pretty awful.
This is why you shouldn’t use screenshots for physical prints.
Start with your choice of NFT project, for this post, I will use OnChain Kevin as an example because I am a holder.
People usually right click on the image, save it, and think it’s done.
Here’s what happens when I right click from the image and click save:
Then I clicked on the image and a larger version of it popped up on OpenSea:
I right-clicked and saved the image again, and here’s what I got:
Some NFT projects have high resolution images you can download directly from OpenSea, and this final step would be enough to get a good quality image for prints.
Typically when images are used for prints, it’s better to use images that are at least 150dpi, even better if they’re 300dpi. However, these would result in pretty large files.
In the case of OnChain Kevins, it’s quite unique. Let’s go visit the Official OnChain Kevin website.
Not every NFT project does this, but it’s definitely a great feature that OnChain Kevin allows their community to access high resolution images easily. By downloading the SVG file, it’s actually a vector that can be scaled infinitely!
Follow OnChain Kevin on Twitter and learn more about their groundbreaking smart contract!
Not all NFT projects will offer high resolution PNG files or JPEGs, so here is another way to upscale an image without using Photoshop: IMG Upscaler.
It’s free for up to ten images a week, and it was recommended to me by a NFT community member DJ Wiener. Drop him a follow and say hi!
I’m a Photoshop user so I usually just fire up Photoshop and do everything I need to do for photo editing, upscaling, background removals, etc. However, not everyone has access to Photoshop, so I hope that these tips provided in this post will help more people in the NFT community. Once you have gotten high res images, you can check out my other blog post to see if you want to remove the background from your NFT image.
Thanks for reading this post, feel free to shop around and check out the custom NFT merch in the Not Zero Yet merch store!
