Steam Getting image and GIF files for My Workshop Showcase slots – with free software

Tools

• PhotoScape, a free software that provides raw file conversion and good selection of filters 
• HxD, free hex editor

The basic image

 
If you already have an external image, go to “Edit image” section, but if you want to use a screenshot from your Steam account or a background from Inventory, the first step is to save the image to your computer 
 
1. go to “Screenshots” on your profile page / open the screenshot / right-click on the image / select “Save image as” from the drop-down list or 
 
1. go to “Inventory” on your profile page / select the background / “View Full Size” / right-click on the image / select “Save image as” from the drop-down list 
 
 
 
 
 

Edit image

 
2. start PhotoScape 
 
 
 
From the program menu we will mainly use 
 
3. “Editor” tab, where we have many possibilities to set the appearance of the image 
 
EDITOR page 
 
 
4. “Splitter” tab which allows us to cut the image into several pieces 
 
From what I realized, a 630 pixel wide image is enough to fill the Featured Artwork Showcase so I assumed it was similar to My Workshop Showcase. But we have five slots, so the width of each piece we get should be about 630/5 = 126 pixels. 
I did several checks and noticed that the wider the pieces, the shorter their length when uploading them to the My Workshop Showcase slots. 
 
 
 
This is because the image is automatically resized to fit in the slot and the wider it is, the more significant the height reduction. 
To really have an image not excessive but “long” enough in the slots, I found that the width of the pieces, for an image with a height of over 1000 pixels, should be around 135-145 pixels, and for a height of the original image below 1000 pixels, we should have about 120-125 pixels. 
 
SPLITTER page 
 
 
We have to divide the image into pieces, without changing the height, which will change automatically when uploading the images in the slots. We see that the resolution is 1920 x 1202 pixels. 
 
5. select “Width, Height” tab / set “Width” at 140 / preserve “Height” at 1202 / press “Split” button 
 
We get 14 pieces with the size of 140 x 1202 pixels. 
The 5 consecutive pieces in which the most important details of the image are found are the first, and they are the ones we will use. 
 
 
 
6. start “HxD” program 
7. open the first piece / drag the cursor down until the last line is seen / overwrite the last two digits with “21” / go to the “File” tab / select “Save as” from the drop-down list 
 
OVERWRITE the last two digits 
 
 
SAVE file 
 
 
Do the same with the other 4 files. 
 
 
 
Now we have the 5 image files ready to be uploaded in the “My Workshop Showcase” slots. 
 
The result is something like this 
 
 
 
 

► GIF files ◄