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Fully support large images

  • April 29, 2024
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Lane-C

When I paste large images into Figma, they end up a fraction of the original width/height and really blurry. In the many cases where there’s text, it can hardly be read.

This issue is due to a limitation by Figma to reduce the longest edge of an image to less than 4096 pixels as outlined in the Support Note here. On retina Macs, images are reduced to less than 2048 pixels if image resolution is set at 2x, which is incredibly common.

Often, I’m dropping in screenshots of existing webpages, so that I can design alongside them or have them as a comparison reference for stakeholders. Other times I design with code and want to bring over the screenshots for my product manager to create the copy or make edits with comments. Sometimes Figma is a place to bring together new ideas and functions like an artboard. But in all these cases, and many more, I run into this limitation causing great pixelation.

I understand Figma’s aim for us to design within their application but it should fully support other massively popular design mediums like large images.

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Benji_Greig1
  • New Member
  • December 16, 2024

In the meantime you can use this plugin to circumnavigate the problem: https://www.figma.com/community/plugin/799646392992487942/insert-big-image


Alex Bickov
  • New Member
  • July 13, 2026

The 4096 cap bites hardest on long screenshots, because on a tall capture the height is the long edge. Pull the height down to 4096 and the width comes with it. A 3066px wide page capture lands near 436px wide once it's 28,800px tall. The text doesn't just get smaller, it stops being text.

Until this changes, the fix that works today is to stop bringing in one tall image. Split the capture into sections, each under 4096 on every edge, and stack them in the file. Nothing crosses the cap, so nothing gets resized.

I do the splitting automatically in slimsnap.ai, a free Mac capture tool, but the trick works with anything that can export in sections.