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Looking for portraits in Master's Vault

Hi,  Just started using Roll20 and need some help with portraits as my initial playing around has got me into a situation I'm not sure how to reverse. I created a new game using the free 'Master's Vault' adventure and then thought I'd change one of the pre-generated characters from male to female, so removed both the portrait and the token from that character and saved it. Then I added the token for the female which worked fine, but for the life of me I just cannot see how to get the portrait the same as the token in a simple manner. I've tried to find the image in the image library via search and nothing similar to the token comes up. In the end the only way I did it was to find the full URL of the token image, download that and then upload it into the portrait which added it into my image library. Please tell me there is an easier way as i'm assuming that I now have two of the same images somewhere in my Roll20 storage, one from the game module and now my newly uploaded one using up my storage allowance?  Thanks for any help.
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Kraynic
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You could just create another game with The Master's Vault and use the character vault to bring the default version in from the fresh game.
The tokens etc in the free module (or any module that you purchase) dont count towards your storage limit.  Of course the one you uploaded will, but it will be rather small I would have thought.  Kraynic's method will work well, but I cant remember if non plus/pro members have access to the character vault???
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Kraynic
Pro
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Everyone has access to the character vault.  At the free level, there are more restrictions on what games allow importing characters, but the creator of a game can always move characters into their own game regardless of vault access settings.
Thanks for the suggestions and it's good to hear that purchased stuff doesn't count to any storage limit. At least i'm not being dumb and missing the obvious option. However I'm surprised there isn't just a way of linking the same image for both Portrait and Token with each resized automatically to the correct pixel dimensions rather than having a med.png file for the portrait and a thumb.png file for the token. Maybe people always have different pictures for those two things and I just haven't played with Roll20 long enough to decide that's the way to go. But as a default option i'd probably like to have them the same to start with and then change the portrait for well know characters.
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Kraynic
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Sheet Author
What size should the token automatically size to?  Different creatures will have different sizes.  Sometimes for small creatures (to avoid needing to edit the token image to give more transparent border around them look right in a single grid unit) I will set the token to "is drawing" and scale it down smaller than a grid unit before switching off the "is drawing" setting and saving it as the default token.  While you may use the same image in yours, I never use the same image for portrait and token.  I may use a portion of the portrait image to create a token from, but if I am using "top down" view tokens, I don't want to use the portrait for a token at all.  And I don't want to use the top down token as my portrait.
Kraynic said: Sometimes for small creatures (to avoid needing to edit the token image to give more transparent border around them look right in a single grid unit) I will set the token to "is drawing" and scale it down smaller than a grid unit before switching off the "is drawing" setting and saving it as the default token.  You know you don't have to fiddle with the "is drawing" stuff if you just hold Alt while resizing the token, right?
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Kraynic
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Sheet Author
Dakota H. said: Kraynic said: Sometimes for small creatures (to avoid needing to edit the token image to give more transparent border around them look right in a single grid unit) I will set the token to "is drawing" and scale it down smaller than a grid unit before switching off the "is drawing" setting and saving it as the default token.  You know you don't have to fiddle with the "is drawing" stuff if you just hold Alt while resizing the token, right? Yep.  But on linux (with the xfce desktop environment), there is a hotkey conflict with that method of doing things on Roll20 that I haven't bothered to track down (changes window size and allows dragging the window from wherever your mouse is).  Most of the time when I am setting "is drawing", I am using it on a map or something that isn't a token which will remain "is drawing".  I keep mentioning it because it seems some people forget you can set it directly on your image, or don't know what that entry of the right click menu does.