Need help with changing background color Header for Vigilance.

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  chase4hire · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 5:31 pm

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  Hi, I am new to WordPress and I picked the Vigilance theme for my blog, http://chase4hire.wordpress.com/

  I have a custom header that’s in png format. When using a viewer, the image is black letters and a white background. When I uploaded the png image, the image is now a black background, the white letters are no longer white…

  Can someone assist the new guy? Thanks.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 6:59 pm

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  In terms of image quality and best results you need to use either a desktop app (image editor) or a free online image editor to optimize and presize your header image to the exact before uploading it.

  My guess and it’s only a guess is that the transparency rendered the whit lettering as black. Does that sound like what happened to you?

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  panaghiotisadam · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 7:43 pm

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  As timethief said, the image needs to be in the exact dimensions specified by the theme (in your case, 920 x 180 pixels). When it’s not, the uploader crops the image. The cropped version produced is always a jpg, hence no transparency.

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  chase4hire · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 9:06 pm

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  It all makes sense. Often the crop tool would come up after uploading the image. I was able to use an online editor and correct the pixel size. It looks and works great.
  Thanks for the help.

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  timethief · Member · Mar 4, 2010 at 9:10 pm

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  It looks fine now. :) You’re welcome and best wishes for happy blogging. :)