Topic: Increase image size

[bigguy]

I think so yes but I would have to figure out how to do it. It can be done though.

[curlin]

    That would be cool Bigguy. Because i think it would look much better that way.

[curlin]

  Ok - spent more time digging and hopefully this will work.

  How i want it to look - http://img3.imageshack.us/i/bannerqv4.gif/

  Info here - http://www.simplemachines.org/community/index.php?topic=293626.msg1936667#msg1936667

[bigguy]

It looks like that is what you are looking for.

[curlin]

  I've spent hours trying to figure the following out to no avail.

    My banner isn't wide enough to cover the entire header area and i need to attach another png/gif to it. I just can't figure out how  The free banner/header site where i made the banner only allow up to 1000px and that's not wide enough.

    Any suggestions please?

[bigguy]

I can resize it for you again.

[Cholo]

Sorry I didn't end up getting back here yesterday.  I'll be on later tonight and have a look back through this thread to see if you still need some help.

[curlin]

      Thanks

  Well this is what i need done. Take the right side of my banner .png (1000x180) and join it with the left side of another .png (400-600x180) making a complete banner that will fit in the entire header area (1400-1600x180). I can't figure out how to join the 2 png images together.

[Cholo]

Ok, sorry man but I ended up staying later at an appointment than I anticipated and I have to start getting to bed now, but...

One think you might not be taking into account is different screen resolutions for different computer monitors.  I'm guessing you've got a pretty high-resolution monitor and your large header image displays correctly on your screen.  But change your screen resolution for a minute to something like 1024 x 768 (lots of people still running this, esp. at work and such) and you'll see that your banner overlaps the login area of your forum.

I can help you out more with this later, but that's your primary concern when working with a fluid width theme.

[curlin]

    Ok thanks Cholo

  I still have lots of other things to do but i want to get that header right. I'll lower my resolution and take a peek.


     Edit: Man, i see what ya mean  . I'm using 1366x768 and the banner is well short of the login area.

[Cholo]

Have you seen what your site looks like using a lower resolution?

[curlin]

       Yes, shocking  lol!

  If i were to take just one image that is say half the width of the header and center it, would that work in any resolution?.

[Cholo]

Whoa, I see you switched the theme, right?

But let's see, if you cut that old image in half:  1366px / 2 = 683    (is that right? lol).  1024px x 768px is about the lowest resolution you want to design for so, yeah, that should work. 

Might not look great, but it'll work.

[curlin]

       I plan on offering a few themes to use so i'm still going to use that theme. I'll try that cholo and thanks for pointing out the resolution issues. Never thought about that 

[Cholo]

No problem man. Let us know whatever other questions you have.