diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
index 660323d4..41f415a5 100644
--- a/README.md
+++ b/README.md
@@ -306,6 +306,8 @@ For example, memory_db would be set by adding `memory_db = true` under the line
 | `hide_to_tray`              | boolean | false   | hide abaddon to the system tray on window close                                                                            |
 | `show_deleted_indicator`    | boolean | true    | show \[deleted\] indicator next to deleted messages instead of actually deleting the message                               |
 | `font_scale`                | double  |         | scale font rendering. 1 is unchanged                                                                                       |
+| `image_embed_clamp_width`   | int     | 400     | maximum width of image embeds                                                                                              |
+| `image_embed_clamp_height`  | int     | 300     | maximum height of image embeds                                                                                             |
 
 #### style
 
diff --git a/src/components/chatmessage.cpp b/src/components/chatmessage.cpp
index a5032945..05954da0 100644
--- a/src/components/chatmessage.cpp
+++ b/src/components/chatmessage.cpp
@@ -431,7 +431,9 @@ Gtk::Widget *ChatMessageItemContainer::CreateEmbedComponent(const EmbedData &emb
 
     if (embed.Image.has_value() && embed.Image->ProxyURL.has_value()) {
         int w = 0, h = 0;
-        GetImageDimensions(*embed.Image->Width, *embed.Image->Height, w, h, EmbedImageWidth, EmbedImageHeight);
+        const int clamp_width = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().ImageEmbedClampWidth;
+        const int clamp_height = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().ImageEmbedClampHeight;
+        GetImageDimensions(*embed.Image->Width, *embed.Image->Height, w, h, clamp_width, clamp_height);
 
         auto *img = Gtk::manage(new LazyImage(*embed.Image->ProxyURL, w, h, false));
         img->set_halign(Gtk::ALIGN_CENTER);
@@ -488,7 +490,9 @@ Gtk::Widget *ChatMessageItemContainer::CreateEmbedComponent(const EmbedData &emb
 
 Gtk::Widget *ChatMessageItemContainer::CreateImageComponent(const std::string &proxy_url, const std::string &url, int inw, int inh) {
     int w, h;
-    GetImageDimensions(inw, inh, w, h);
+    const int clamp_width = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().ImageEmbedClampWidth;
+    const int clamp_height = Abaddon::Get().GetSettings().ImageEmbedClampHeight;
+    GetImageDimensions(inw, inh, w, h, clamp_width, clamp_height);
 
     Gtk::EventBox *ev = Gtk::manage(new Gtk::EventBox);
     Gtk::Image *widget = Gtk::manage(new LazyImage(proxy_url, w, h, false));
diff --git a/src/constants.hpp b/src/constants.hpp
index 5ed123c1..8f39530d 100644
--- a/src/constants.hpp
+++ b/src/constants.hpp
@@ -12,7 +12,5 @@ constexpr static int BoostLevel3AttachmentSizeLimit = 100 * 1024 * 1024;
 constexpr static int MaxMessagePayloadSize = 199 * 1024 * 1024;
 constexpr static int EmojiSize = 24; // settings eventually
 constexpr static int AvatarSize = 32;
-constexpr static int EmbedImageWidth = 400;
-constexpr static int EmbedImageHeight = 300;
 constexpr static int ThumbnailSize = 100;
 constexpr static int StickerComponentSize = 160;
diff --git a/src/settings.cpp b/src/settings.cpp
index 23b2b898..85464a55 100644
--- a/src/settings.cpp
+++ b/src/settings.cpp
@@ -96,6 +96,8 @@ void SettingsManager::DefineSettings() {
     AddSetting("gui", "hide_to_try", false, &Settings::HideToTray);
     AddSetting("gui", "show_deleted_indicator", true, &Settings::ShowDeletedIndicator);
     AddSetting("gui", "font_scale", -1.0, &Settings::FontScale);
+    AddSetting("gui", "image_embed_clamp_width", 400, &Settings::ImageEmbedClampWidth);
+    AddSetting("gui", "image_embed_clamp_height", 300, &Settings::ImageEmbedClampHeight);
 
     AddSetting("http", "concurrent", 20, &Settings::CacheHTTPConcurrency);
     AddSetting("http", "user_agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/67.0.3396.87 Safari/537.36"s, &Settings::UserAgent);
diff --git a/src/settings.hpp b/src/settings.hpp
index be9660e2..d69d165e 100644
--- a/src/settings.hpp
+++ b/src/settings.hpp
@@ -28,6 +28,8 @@ class SettingsManager {
         bool HideToTray;
         bool ShowDeletedIndicator;
         double FontScale;
+        int ImageEmbedClampWidth;
+        int ImageEmbedClampHeight;
 
         // [http]
         int CacheHTTPConcurrency;