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KellyK
Active Member
February 8, 2021

Option to disable "Image resized" when large images are brought in

  • February 8, 2021
  • 112 replies
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I regularly need to work with screenshots of webpages, which can be a couple thousand pixels tall. I need these images to be actual size. Can’t do this in Figma cause it automatically scales large images down.

I know there’s a plugin but this seems like a silly thing to rely on a plugin for, there should be an option native to Figma that lets us shut this function off.

Or give us an option to scale the image back up to the original dimensions? (even if the quality’s going to get wrecked)

This has been such a huge thorn in my side!

Please & thank you!

112 replies

Kevin_Johnsun
July 9, 2024

Wow, thank you so much @Mary_Hayes 🙌
I tried the plugin and it’s exactly what I was hoping for. I like how the image stays full-size without any cropping 👍

kiprou
New Participant
September 1, 2024

This limitation sucks. I just want to be able to paste a large image into Figma without having to download the image to my machine, use a third-party plugin to import it (which is not guaranteed to work forever), then delete the file from my machine.

G119
September 6, 2024

Agree, there should be an option to override this limitation - working over website screen grabs is a necessary option in a lot of workflows.

SoloAnt
November 2, 2024

There should be a way to disable this for sure at least when an image is then exported. Just ran into this problem working with web screenshots that go beyond the threshold and tested an export hoping the image would be clear but it exported the same as it looks on the screen which is not good.

Please please add an option to at least when exported it uses the original sharp image.

And using the plugin suggested works but is such a workflow killer due to how is splits the image into multiple images. Having to mask sections out and resizing or whatever is a huge pain.

Lia3
New Member
January 16, 2025

This is STILL a (ridiculous) issue. Not only is this a problem for importing website screenshots, it’s also a huge problem for adding custom-designed website background images to a Figma design. If I create an image in Illustrator intended to cover the entire background of my website design in Figma, there seems to be no way to have it not horribly downrezzed, which is unacceptable for both my clients and me as a designer. Aforementioned plugins don’t seem to solve this problem, as they don’t seem to provide a method for placing an imported image into the background (fill) of a frame. Figma please fix this already!!

Nicole_Emenhiser
New Participant
March 7, 2025

Still an issue :( Very frustrating situation to be in. 

SergioIvan
New Member
March 16, 2025

It’s been 4 years and they still haven’t fixed this stupid b̶u̶g̶ “feature”. Just lost a couple of hours trying to research and figure out what the hell is happening.

Is it a browser issue? Memory limitation?

Why is the design tool overriding my intent? Can you imagine if Adobe did this with their tools?

Explain to us why it needs to be rescaled.

Marc_Robinson
New Participant
March 21, 2025

+1 here as well. Horrible “feature”.

Yevhenii Kravchenko
New Member
March 26, 2025

+1, I have the same problem, it should be optional. oh my god, I’m working on my own plugin and I cannot use other plugin to fix that problem. I just cannot understand why it is still an issue after 4 years

Jasper O
New Member
April 8, 2025

+1, I just can’t wrap my head around a design tool that decides on it’s own what quality I, the user, want to have. I don’t need an AI upscaler and an AI image generator, I just want to be able to import images of any size without issue.

I assume it has something to do with the fact that you work online but I wouldn’t mind being able to work offline and store files on my pc. Leave those decisions to the users.