Rich: Eight header image
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The wondrously simple coding you gave me to widen both content and sidebar have … artificially widened the header.
With most images this wouldn’t matter a bit: but mine being a C2S, our being made almost into a XC2S means our faces are too big in frame.
I know I’m being a pain, but is there some way I can keep the size but have the 2S in a wider frame …?
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C2S? XC2S? I’m lost. :)
The header image showing the two of you can be made smaller, but there will be whitespace on either side of the image. You can replace the #primary #content rule you have now with the following.
#primary #content { background-position: center -20px; background-size: 80% auto; } -
Sorry – I was tired and didn’t think.
Close two-shot: extra-close-two-shot.
My apologies, Rich !!!
What I’m after is to achieve the two-shot of us as if the camera had pulled back, leaving the shot the same size, but us smaller in frame.
Am I making any sense …?
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There isn’t a lot we can do with the image that is currently used, this one:
http://margaretrosestringer.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/cropped-scan0007151.jpgI do see this one in your media library, https://margaretrosestringer.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/scan000713.jpg , which we could use. Add this to your custom CSS at the very bottom and see what you think.
#primary #content { background: url("https://margaretrosestringer.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/scan000713.jpg") no-repeat scroll center top transparent; } -
I see that you’re quite right: we are indeed smaller in frame. However, we’re too low in frame, as well. Sorry !
If I were to crop from the big shot (not in my media library) to achieve the ideal size within frame, what size would I make the image, please, Rich ? –
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The recommended size for Eight is 538px x 268px. If you get it framed as you desire, in that size, then upload that one and add it at Appearance > Header.
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[M-R tugs forelock]
Will do !
And will do it NOW …
After which I see exactly what you meant about the spacing on either side. But I prefer that to having the photo made much bigger in the frame. It’s like opening your eyes to find someone with his face about two inches from yours !
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If you size and crop the image the way you want it, at 538 x 268, then it should appear just as you desire. Let us know if you have any problems.
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It is sized at precisely those dimensions, Rich … but there are the blank bits at either side.
I don’t mind about them.
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The latest one I see in our media library is this one, which is basically identical to the one you had:https://margaretrosestringer.files.wordpress.com/2014/10/eight2.jpg .
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Yup. Before we did the widening of the contents and sidebar, the photo occupied the same width as the contents. Subsequently, post widening, it remains the same size. OR, she added hastily, it becomes artificially enlarged to turn into a much closer two-shot.
I prefer the original with the two-shot smaller in frame.
:-)
We can leave it, me old china plate – I’m perfectly happy, believe it or not !
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