Techie Tip for Blogger Images

 

I’ve given my blog a bit of a face-lift today. Nothing too extreme, just a little botox in the wrinkle zones.  : )

Here’s the problem: When I saved my signature image as a png, it uploaded to blogger with a black background. What?! There’s no background in a png – it’s been removed. So how can it be black?

Here’s the source of the problem: 
Blogger automatically imports all of your images to Picassa where they are saved. Google also automatically “enhances” your photos, which is great – except it also sometimes leaves the black background around png images. Not so great.

There are a few fixes for this, but the easiest one is to disable the settings in Google.

1. Disable the default “auto-enhance” by going to you G+ account and choosing “settings”.

2. In the “photos” section, UNCHECK “Automatically enhance new photos”

3. To apply that to your signature, upload your png image in a new post, and copy the html.

4. In Blogger, go to 
Settings —> Posts and Comments —> Post Template

5. Paste your html in that box and save.

Each time you start a new post, your signature image will be there automatically with NO black background.  



If you also want to remove the white border around your images like I did below, the instructions are HERE.

Hope that saves someone a bunch of headaches!