Women Over Fifty

I just migrated to the new Today.com theme.  I didn’t expect to like it, but I found out you can change the picture on the header to be whatever you want it to be.  Ah!  I can personalize.  They tell us that later we can change the colors as well.  That sounds great to me.

Here’s how to make a header image.  I’ve never done this before, but we’re never too old to learn something new.

• Pick a photo.  I chose a photo my brother Rich had taken in Costa Rica of the Little River.
• Crop a wide slice from it.  The header isn’t tall so I saved the picture as something else and cut a wide slice out of it.
• Save it as Low Resolution - about 300 dpi.
• Save it where you can find it.  I have a folder called Web Stuff.  Under it is a folder called Tiny Pics.  That’s where all my blogging pictures are.
• Resize it.  The header should be 995 x 140 pixels.  Sorry Charlie, but my graphics program doesn’t work in pixels.  Well, I decided to go with points since they’re really small.  Guess what?  It worked.  I took a slice of my photo, resized it to 995 points in width and let the height determine itself.  It wasn’t exact, but it was close.
• Upload it to Today.com.  Go to Look and Feel, Custom Image Header.  Browse on your computer and find the image you prepared.  Click on upload.  When the upload is complete you have more choices.
• Select the portion of your photo to use.  We only got close to the right size with the points.  Now you’ll see a dashed box on your picture.  Click on the box until you see the funny X.  When the X is there you can move that box around on your photo.  Just use the box to decide the best picture.
• When you’re done, select OK and the picture becomes your header picture.  Neat huh?

Here are two more possible headers:

If you take these pictures from my blog, please give credit to Rich Mau.  He’s the one who went to Costa Rica with his camera and sent the pictures back.

Photo credit:  Rich Mau

Marilynne

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