'Sharp' loading screen text?

Currently I'm trying to make my own loading screen, 1024x1024, it's mainly consisted of text (currently limited to MSPaint). I save it then convert to TGA then to BLP and add it to my loading screen model file. In the loading screen the text is extremely blurry and illegable, is there any way to change this?


EDIT: I use IrfanView and the Wc3 Image Extractor as conversion tools (if this matters).

http://www.dwarfcampaign.com/wiki/in...Loading_screen I suggest Method 2 (small file-size) And your image should be 1024 by 768.

1024x1024 is not a computer resolution.

It's 1024x768 (could be the other way around) or 1152x864.

EDIT: Damn you, Ammorth. I couldn't remember if it was 768 or 780 and I had to check ><

Also, saving at a higher compression quality will affect how it looks significantly (I believe WC3 Image Viewer uses 75 as default; 99 looks better, but is somewhat larger).

i allways set it to 1000 hoping it will do something :P

If you save something as a huge image size, it will just get shrunk to the screen and have this sharp effect, imagine you have a circle which is really 100x100 pixles big, then you view it as 50x50, you will see the sharp effect, the pixles sometimes dont have enough room on the screen to make a perfect shape.
Heres an example:

I decreased the image size by 50% each time, the first image is big and perfectly smooth, then after progression, you can see very small edges where they stick out instead of being smooth, but this is very minor, because i saved the image as high quality and its jpg. While TGA may act differently.

100%:

50%:

25%:

12.5%:

6.25%: