I just changed the theme of my blog to Atahualpa. I liked it when I first saw it because of the ability to have a rotating roster of random heading images. It’s really cool because it is so configurable that I don’t have to edit the theme files themselves.
The theme comes with some nice images. However, as a photo-phile, I wanted to use my own photos. The challenging part was finding images that I could crop to match the long proportions of the heading images. Once I figured out what I needed to do, I was able to generate more pictures without taking so much time on each photo.
Here are the steps that I have figured out. I used Picasa and Dreamweaver.
- In Picasa, look for landscape photos that had the most interesting elements in the horizontal axis.
- Select the desired image, File > Save a Copy
- Edit the copy, which will have the same filename with -1 appended (skip steps 2 & 3 if you don’t care about saving the original)
- Click on I’m Feeling Lucky to see if it improves the look of the picture. If not, undo
- Click on Crop and use the Manual option to select a long rectangle that contains the desired content
- Click on Preview to see the dimensions of the crop area. This might take experimentation since the size of photos vary but I found that I got good results if the height is no more than twice the max height set for the header image in the theme configurations. This is dependent on the width of the original and the size to which it will be reduced, if at all.
- Click Apply once satisfied with the crop area.
- File > Export Picture to Folder
- Select the desired Resize setting if the original is not the right size
- Click Export
- A Windows Explorer window should open that contains the new file
- In the local copy of the blog, copy or move the file to the folder: wp-content\themes\atahualpa\images\header
- In Dreamweaver, select the new file and upload
I hope that helps. It seems complicated with so many steps but after a while it gets easy to do.
Way to go bud! I am playing around with the atahualpa theme myself. pretty cool and love the configurability. maybe we can give each other pointers every now and then…?
all the best.
Atahualpa, Clean, simple and configurable theme. Like the way you customized its width and logo !!
Cool, configurable & nice theme. Thanks for the wonderful theme.
I found another site that allows submission of free wordpress themes STCFX. I guess they also offer free theme storage as well.
Only big problem on Atahualpa is that you can configure pretty much everything… and when you can configure things they will never be ok… I mean that you always have to adjust something couple of pixels left/right or something like that
I used the template based on this article and I have to say i LOVE it. Thanks
I like Atahualpa right out of the box, or nearly so
Here is one of my own business sites using it: SEO Dallas
Dennis Foreman
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