Edin theme: featured image on pages darker than original
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Testing this theme, found that pages’ featured images are a lot darker than the images uploaded.
Guess it might have something to do with some kind of dark blue background which might be laid over the image. Is this assumption correct?When I pay the 80 euros premium price to customize CSS, will I be able to deactivate this and have the pages’ featured images look EXACTLY same as the uploaded original file.
If so, how does one deactivate this layer?Thanks in advance for your reply.
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I’m having the same problem. But, paying for it (customizing it) has nothing to do with the problem you are describing. I have designed 2 blogs (free) utilizing the Edin theme. One of them was finished just last weeks. All images in these blogs appeared properly (bright). Today, I was attempting a new design using the same theme (Edin) ….but now all images appear dark. Clearly there is something wrong with this template. Please help.
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@ mjojones,
I see what you mean. The idea that the average website builder might want all of their featured images to appear shaded doesn’t seem very likely, but that’s apparently the limb that the Edin creators have crawled out on. Some themes have optional shading on featured images which you can remove by unchecking a box at the Customize page. There evidently is no such option with the Edin theme.
I found a topic from August 2014 dealing with this issue, titled How do I remove shading in the Featured Image in Page section? The fix suggested by the responding WP Happiness Engineer is a CSS customization. Therefore, the answer to your question
When I pay the 80 euros premium price to customize CSS, will I be able to deactivate this and have the pages’ featured images look EXACTLY same as the uploaded original file.
is a qualified Yes, the reservation being on the word “exactly.” Featured images are resized and cropped on this theme. There is bound to be some loss of quality.
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@ ivybusinesslaw,
All images in these blogs appeared properly (bright). Today, I was attempting a new design using the same theme (Edin) ….but now all images appear dark. Clearly there is something wrong with this template.
Does the darkness you describe affect all images on the site, or only featured images?
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All images appear dark, featured and those representing page content. All my blogs created last week (using Edin template) look perfectly fine. I even tried to recreate the same blogs today (with the same template and with the same images) …and it doesn’t look the same – again, all images appear darker and of lower quality.
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@musicdoc1. Thanks for your input. Looked at the link you kindly supplied but judging (only) from Chrome inspect, the opacity setting suggested set at 0 completely blanks out the image as expected from such setting and from 1 to 99 does nothing to resolve the problem.
So I’m back to square 1.From my test site, i.e a page such as https://bsagtest.wordpress.com/key-approaches/advanced-segmentation/, the page featured image is darkened but the other images on the site, including the blog-type featured images are kept intact, i.e on https://bsagtest.wordpress.com/category/news/.
Don’t have many images on this test site but they don’t seem affected by such a dark layer.I guess this “dark layer” on pages featured images is put on to prevent unexperienced users from having unreadable text (since it’s white) on a light background but information should be given on how to bypass this preset.
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Got the answer. In the theme’s options, there’s a checkbox allowing to remove the featured image filter. So topic can now be closed.
Wish tho’ that information be provided on how this filter is implemented. -
Glad to hear you solved the problem.
I checked the Edin theme support document (linked below) and there is a note about the filter, but I appreciate the feedback that it was hard to find.
https://wordpress.com/themes/edin/
Let me know if you need anything else.
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@lizthefair. The difficulty comes from the fact that when I did the first theme settings, I didn’t have a feature image on the site. So I could not see the effect of this filter. And when I added featured images and saw they got darkened I could not easily find the info in the theme’s documentation. When I took the customization trial, discovered in the CSS that there’s a black layer on the image with an opacity of 0.3.
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Gottcha.
It sounds like you are all sorted though, right? Do you have any more questions?
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