Cerauno header problem

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  elvisp56 · Member · Sep 7, 2015 at 12:32 am

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  The header for my website with the Cerauno theme is displaying at less than 100% opacity. The picture looks fine when I upload the JPEG image to my media section, but displays with a faded look on the actual website at around 50% opacity.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 7, 2015 at 8:49 am

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  Hi there. This is not an error, but it’s how the theme was designed. It shows the header image at 20% opacity, in fact.

  The only way to override this is via CSS, and for that you need the Premium or Business bundle.

  If you have one of those upgrades, you can use this code:

  .site-branding::before {
      opacity: 1;
  }

  You default value for opacity is 0.2. 1 is completely opaque.

  To see how to add this code, see: http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/custom-design/editing-css/

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  elvisp56 · Member · Sep 7, 2015 at 2:54 pm

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  Thanks for your reply!

  I just don’t understand why developers would apply a opacity of less than 100% to a header. This happened in another theme I tried before and that’s why I switched to this. There is no photo in the example of Cerauno theme so it’s very misleading.

  To all developers: leave the opacity at 100% and let the website owner decide if they want to change their header to a lesser opacity.

  Now I am debating to change my theme AGAIN.

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  kokkieh · Staff · Sep 7, 2015 at 3:41 pm

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  Theme design is a modern art form, and any theme has the look it has because the theme designer thinks that design has the most pleasing aesthetic. Unfortunately not everyone will like the theme the designer likes, which is why we have so many themes to choose from, as well as the option to customise the design.

  I understand your frustration, but saying a theme designer should not make certain design choices like this is like saying a painter may only use primary colors, if you get what I’m trying to say.

  It frustrates me as well is a theme demo doesn’t showcase all the features available in a theme, like custom headers in this case, but there’s nothing we can do about that. To get around that I use a private test blog to thoroughly try out new themes before I go through all the effort of switching my blog to one. You might want to consider doing that going forward.