Header Image

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  aurgasm · Member · Dec 21, 2006 at 2:22 am

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  My header image is distorted. Here’s the original image, it looks fine. I saved it in a png format, I don’t know what’s wrong.

  Can anybody help?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 21, 2006 at 3:17 am

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  There is a recognized loss of clarity when headers are uploaded that, at this time, cannot be improved.

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  sunburntkamel · Member · Dec 21, 2006 at 3:18 am

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  if you crop the image down to 780×200 (the original is 780×225) then wp.com should use the image as-is, so it doesn’t get compressed.

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  classicalfengshui · Member · Dec 21, 2006 at 9:53 am

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  How does one change the header to an image?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 21, 2006 at 5:34 pm

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  I cannot tell if you have a wordpress.com blog or not because your username is not linked to it. So if your blog is self hosted or if you have hired a web host you are in the wrong forum and ought to be here instead http://wordpress.org/support

  If you are a wordpress.com blogger then it would be helpful to know that only some themes allow for a header and all have specific sizes. Basically you locate an image and put it into microsoft paint or photoshop and size it correctly before uploading it. http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/07/08/which-themes-can-i-add-a-header-image-to/

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  drmike · Member · Dec 24, 2006 at 3:11 pm

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  I thought we couldn’t use *.pngs as header images around here?

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  timethief · Member · Dec 24, 2006 at 4:48 pm

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  This is what the FAQs says:
  What filetypes can I upload?
  Currently you can upload the following: jpg jpeg png gif pdf doc ppt
  http://faq.wordpress.com/2006/05/07/what-filetypes-can-i-upload/
  P.S. txt is missing from the list

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  drmike · Member · Dec 24, 2006 at 5:36 pm

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  That’s for uploading to a post, not for the header images.

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  freewilly · Member · Dec 24, 2006 at 5:38 pm

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  It is because it converted it into a JPEG. If it is not originally a JPEG it will get fuzzy and distored. I hope this helps!

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  timethief · Member · Dec 24, 2006 at 5:40 pm

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  So if it’s “no” to uploading png files to be used as headers maybe we need to have that stated in the FAQs.