Render Quality of still images for Blu Ray?

Hello,
can anyone help me on how to control the quality of still images beeing rendered within Encore?
Transcoding is for film only and on my full HD Blu Ray it seems, that still images or diashows are
rendered in SD quality at best.
Any hints appreciated!
Cheers,
Guenter

Hello and thanks for the quick replies and especially the welcome greetings.....
The images do match the resolution of the videos, they are all 1920x1080.
I created the images with Photoshop and next to JPG I also tried the PSD,
but it made to difference.
They are not part of the videos, they are just pictures I've included using
the diashow function within Encore. There is no transcode menu available
for single images nor the diashow.
The default transcode settings - which are used for video only afaik - are
also full hd, full quality.
Any other ideas?
Cheers,
Guenter

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