Sprays in LFD

Every jpg I try to import into LFD for use as a spray, no matter how I resize it results in the "please use an image sized at 256, 128, 64 ... blablabla pixels" error popup.

C'mon there's got to be an easier way? What am I doing wrong? Jeez I remember in Counterstrike Source it was so easy to make an image into a spray - I'd just resize it to be 256 tall (or wide, I forget) and it worked. What the heck did Valve change in these newer games?

(BTW TF2 ain't no picnic either)

if you can make it in TF2 then just make it there... then import the finished spray into L4D..

if not.. CSS is massively forgiving regarding sprays.. import the pic there and make the spray.. then import the spray into L4D from the CSS folders..

are you making your spray square... I use 256*256 and it works fine.

I'll second what everyone else has said and suggest you just make a copy of your TF2 spray (I think its in the "materials\VGUI\logos" folder), and then paste it into the appropriate folder for L4D.

Another thing you can try is changing the file extension to .bmp or .tga(.) Thats what I had to do for my spray, although the error I had was different. Just throwing it out there.