Any tips on fitting an entire image into a Mastodon header? (lemmy.ml)

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I have a text/graphic file which I would like to have completely inside my Mastodon header, not clipped as is the norm.

I did some shrinking and shifting a number of different times, but it ends up either not centered, or the image is blurred.

I run Ubuntu GNU/Linux on my PCs, so I have access to Imagemagick, which can do almost anything with a graphics file from the command line. Also, GIMP, but I don't use that often.

Here's a look at the file, with some stats.

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this post was submitted on 09 Apr 2026

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