Header image distorted no matter what format I choose

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  seandodson · Member · Mar 17, 2011 at 2:52 pm

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  Hello,
  I’ve been trying to upload a header image to my blog. I’ve saved the original image (created in Gimp) as PNG, JPG and GIF, but in each instance the image looks heavily pixalated (and crap).

  Is there anything obvious i’m missing?

  many thanks in advance

  Sean

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  seandodson · Member · Mar 17, 2011 at 3:31 pm

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  forgot to add: blog is here

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  auxclass · Member · Mar 17, 2011 at 4:06 pm

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  The general recommendation is to size the image the exact same pixel size as the header image size so that WordPress is not doing any image processing scaling etc. There have been reports of quality problems in some cases with scaling of images when the WordPress program is doing the scaling.

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  seandodson · Member · Mar 17, 2011 at 5:09 pm

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  Thanks auxclass. I’ve tried that 980 x 120. I still get the distortion. I just dont’ get it?

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  seandodson · Member · Mar 17, 2011 at 5:36 pm

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  OK. I sorted it. I just did a brand new one. No so happy with it. Gimp’s limited in its font selection, but it will do for now. Many thanks for your help

  Sean