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I had been combing this site and Moddingway trying to piece together a comprehensive tutorial for doing new portraits and I just figured it out and finished a portrait for my Giants franchise. I can tell you it's quite a bit of work even if you know wtf you are doing so if there's any Portrait Update around here that includes the players you want, just do it that way. However if you're dead set on learning the basics and steps, PM me on here or something with what part you need help with specifically. I have some good GIMP image editing links if you are stuck there too.

Basically that was the issue. Wasn't re-exporting them and THEN doing the portrait 7zip - I was pretty effin' happy when I got it done though.. all for one portrait for my dear Giants

UPDATE Sorry for the spam, but I figured it out and got it down now. If anyone else gets stuck with this and can't siphon an answer out of the previous threads, I can try to help. Side note - I'm aware of MLB Pressbox for high-res photos, and I'm positive someone out there has a mirror or even recent archives. If someone here could provide high-res photos with equal dimensions for conversion, I would be willing to trade my leet GIMP skills if you need images, portraits, instruction, whatever.

I've commented on a recent post regarding this, but I'm also at a loss with updating 2k12 portrait files and I was hoping someone could just plug-in or suggest the steps I am screwing up: 1. Created some nice 256x256 portraits in GIMP, converted the images to .dds [attached the .png with transparency and the complete .dds image below] 2. Downloaded the correct MEGA portrait pack from site, extracted to a folder, copied my .dds over the one in the pack, re-compressed with 7Zip. 3. Using TiT installed my newly altered portrait pack, installed successfully. Edited the Roster I use to match correct numbers. 4. Used NBA ModTool to open portrait.iff, clicked Import, found my modded .dds, imported successfully. 5. Fail. I know I'm screwing something stupid up.. I've learned how to do this on my own screwing around for a few days, and I was planning on eventually writing some kind of newb guide on how to do this because I haven't really seen any cohesive guides on this (or I suck at Google). Any help would be appreciated, and if for some reason you are in need of a Hunter Pence Giants portrait, please take it. 2530.dds

I appreciate the links, although I found the tools long ago.

I'm gonna bump this because it's exactly what I am looking for and posted about. I am looking for a quick and dirty guide to portrait editing, steps required to export -> GIMP/Photoshop -> import. No, this isn't a request for portraits nor am I asking how to install portraits.. just wanna replace some players in-game with updated team portraits.

I have msg'd a couple of the top-notch modders about this, but I also wanted to ask in general - Have and of you written or seen a decent entry-level guide to portrait editing for MLB 2k12? I imagine 2k11 and 2k10 have similar processes but I'm not certain. I have all the tools required like TiT, ModTool, and several others. I also have GIMP for image editing, but all I want to do is update portrait pics. By that I mean replace either a cyberface used for portrait or update a player with a current team portrait. I have access to current roster pics from team sites, but the biggest problem I'm having with that is the image size is not 256x256 like 2k12 uses in game, so when I convert pics they get squished. I've tried work-arounds for it, but I think I'm missing something really obvious. If I can get it working right I intend to do a NL portrait update as of post-season play. Thanks

Could I get a legitimate, working link to this mysterious "Portrait Decompress Tool" everyone seems to have but no one seems to link?