Background image blurry

Hi, I’ve started learning how to use Newspaper X, after working with version 9, and I don’t understand why my background images look so blurry. I am learning using the Beauty Pro template. The hompepage looks perfect, of course:
https://seashore.nl/nieuw/
But when I add a background image, even when replacing it with the same image from the library you use for the template, I get this:
https://seashore.nl/nieuw/homepage-test/

So, what seems to be the issue here?

Regards,

Martin.

• This topic was modified 6 years by Seashore.

Err, well, no. I do use photos with the correct dimensions, I understand that. Like I said, for this page I used the same photo the template uses: https://seashore.nl/nieuw/homepage-test/
It’s dimensions are 1920 x 1440 pixels.

And for this page, I even used a 3504 x 2336 photo:
https://seashore.nl/nieuw/homepage-test2/
Blurry again.

It seems that Newspaper somehow converts the photos to a kind of smaller ‘thumb’ with a 1024 px width.

OK, I see the problem – I simply should have selected on WP’s media library ‘full size’… My apologies to have bothered you with this!

Thanks,

Martin.

Hi Calin.

We are having a similar issue – the images we are using are the correct size (1920 by 1280 pixels), but for some reason become blurry when inserted into the background. Even reverting to the original image supplied by the theme now renders a blurry background image.

What should we do?

Thanks,
Greg

Hi Buffalo,

This was what I did wrong: I should have selected in WP’s media library to display ‘full size’…

– Martin.