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    Techie Tip for Blogger Images

     

    Today I’m joining up with Erica to share techie tips for blogging and TPT.  
    Click HERE or on the image to visit Erica’s Ed-ventures blog post.

    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!

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

     

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      I love your header!! 25 years married…you definitely need to celebrate this summer! Congratulations:) I hear you on the read a real book! I cannot wait to get lost in a book this summer without having to worry about the stack of papers waiting to be graded:)
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