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ADE Can't add a new Background Image

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Hello everyone,
I recently wanted to update my Background Image to an newer one in ADE. So I created a new one with SBuilderX, deleted the old one and wanted to add the new one in ADE. Sadly I got an error saying that it is not an Image File. Than I noticed that the Image was over one gig and exported it as jpg with 240MB. Also quite big but because the old Image was over 400MB I tried it. Sadly this was also not working. I read on the forum that a 32bit Image can't be used so I converted it to 16bit with no success. In the end I ended up with an Image size of 6MB but its still not working. Maybe someone has an solution for my problem, because of the small File size I'm losing so much detail to align the Parking Stands correctly.
Thanks in advance
 
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unitedkingdom
ADE won't import a background image bigger than (IIRC) 7.5mb. But you can import lots of them! I use a general one for the airport layout, then small local ones for more detailed work like aircraft parking.
 

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This is a limitation of the memory allocation on .NET (and probably my lack of ability to fix it) Images take up a lot of memory when loaded and that is a direct result of the dimensions of the image. So large images covering the airport are more likely to fail than smaller ones as Tim describes.
 
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I don't bother with using SBuilder for these either. Google Earth combined with the Snip Tool (in Win10) is fine, unless you need absolute positional accuracy, and takes just a few seconds per image.
 
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