is it possible to get a color to texture size larger than 1K when converting from poly paint?
yes, just go to the textures pallete and choose your size, hit new, and then do the col->texture procedure. It will be applied to the texture you just created.
Thanks eldee.s… but still no dice… I tried what you said step by step… and nothing, it still gives me a 1K texture.
ok… well I I din’t realize that I had to convert the texture back to color information first… here a link to the writeup I looked at.
oh yeah, forgot about that 
it’s all good, thank you for helping me out eldee.s.