sortitoutsi Background and Stadium Packs
The Backgrounds Megapack was originally made up of aerial shots of stadiums taken from Google Maps and Google Earth, but is now also containing Competitions, Player and Fan Backgrounds, as well as beautiful City Images.
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- 2025.01 - Released on 17 Dec 2024
Qvordrup
Hi all. The latest update (2022.08) has now been remade with file compression to optimize the size of the pack turned on 👍
If You have download the update before the correction was made, then please download and apply the update once again (also to get the few updates that were made in the last couple of days) 😀
telu
the previous update 2022.08 dated July 4 was 7 GB now there is a new update with 2.28 GB. Any bug with the previous update?
Qvordrup
The answer to your question is right here in this thread 👍
vonHolzminden
Thanks for the last update and for your hard work.
Qvordrup
I don't know if I where ever officially in charge of this project, but I'm happy to announce that @BramNUFC are now officially in charge of managing and developing this project 👍😀
I won't be leaving the site… just going back at “only” managing and developing the metallic logo project 😀
mons
Good luck to both you stalwarts 🍻
Is explained here: https://sortitoutsi.net/content/56743/sortitoutsi-backgrounds-megapack-technical-support-thread?page=23
Leeds1919
Thanks, so I just need to re-download?
Only that image yes
Leeds1919
Cheers
UID's and the upload date of current background have now been added to the browsing system. This will hopefully make research a bit more convenient, and also help with spotting old images that might need updating. Thanks for this 👏 @Footygamer
mons
I concur - it's a real timesaver!
This page might be useful if you're looking for the most recent match images:
https://www.gettyimages.ae/search/2/image?editorialproducts=sport&groupbyevent=true&family=editorial&orientations=horizontal%2Cpanoramichorizontal&sort=newest
Remember you can get watermark-free versions by putting them through this site:
http://getty.beatsnoop.com/
Update pack 2022.09 is now available for download, containing 4,193 new or improved backgrounds.
Thanks to all contributors 👏
mons
Fantastic work 👏
Update pack 2022.10 is now available for download, containing 2,519 new or improved backgrounds.
Thanks to all contributors 👏
vonHolzminden
Thanks for the fantastic file…
If anyone is interested in pictures from alamy, apparently there is a watermark remover for those as well: http://ay.beatsnoop.com/
It's the same hosting site as for the getty watermark remover, all though you seem to get smaller resolution images than there unfortunately.
The getty downloader is up again. However now they have added a 15 second countdown, a plea for paypal donations, plus an external download link for the image that doesn't actually work… We might have to go and find an alternative
Changed to a 5 second countdown now + 5 seconds at the external download page
Update pack 2022.11 is now available for download, containing 1,564 new or improved backgrounds.
Thanks to all contributors 👏
Leeds1919
Lovely new pic of elland Road, thanks all
geordie1981
So is this actually working for others because I'm still getting the dead links on all browsers.
What link isn't working for you? If you click on 2K or 3K here (they've changed it again) and then on adf.ly wait for 5 seconds and click on ‘skip ad', it should open the image
geordie1981
I think it's my firewall blocking the external page because it's working on my tablet.
As an alternative I find these filters in google quite useful for finding recent high-quality images
https://www.google.com/search?q=Lionel%20Messi%20&tbm=isch&hl=en&safe=images&tbs=qdr:m%2Cisz:lt%2Cislt:2mp%2Ciar:w&sa=X&ved=0CAQQpwVqFwoTCNjh2Ia9sPoCFQAAAAAdAAAAABAW&biw=1903&bih=969
If you want to search for a different player, just change the bit in red within the url to another name, then you don't have to select the filters again.
Some aerial shots of Danish stadiums: https://www.gettyimages.ae/search/2/image?events=775505070
Quick note that we aim to release the 2023.00 base pack somewhere next week, so if you want any images to be included in that, make sure to upload them in the coming days. Especially for the player backgrounds it would be nice to have them as up-to-date as possible for everyone to use at the start of their FM23 saves!
It's now also possible to upload team fans backgrounds, in the usual 1920x1080 or 1600x900 resolutions.
The 2023.00 pack is now available for download, taking the total amount of backgrounds to 69,296
You will notice the download page now looks a little bit different. We have split up the pack into 5 parts, eventually they will all get their own section on the site. This should make it easier for people that only want to use a specific part of the pack, and it also makes the file sizes more manageable.
Instead of the whole pack having 1 config file, each part now has their own, so you no longer have to spend time on creating them yourself.
We would like to hear your feedback on this change, as well as possible improvements.
Also a big thank you to everyone that has contributed in the past year, the quality of the pack has drastically been improved. Let's keep on going for FM23! 👏