Title: Decrease height of header image
Last modified: August 31, 2018

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# Decrease height of header image

 *  Resolved [stefaniescheidgen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaniescheidgen/)
 * (@stefaniescheidgen)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-header-image/)
 * Hello,
    the header image takes too much space on my main page so I would like
   to decrease it´s height about 50%. How can I do that? BTW I love your theme, 
   it is so beautiful!
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   to see the link]_

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 *  [KokkieH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kokkieh/)
 * (@kokkieh)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-header-image/#post-10654824)
 * Hi there,
 * This theme recommends you use a custom header of only 360 pixels high. Do you
   mean you want it even smaller than that?
 * When adding a custom header you should have the option to crop it, and the theme
   will respect the height to which you crop it.
 * You can also use additional CSS in the Customizer to do this:
 *     ```
       /*
        * Reduce height of custom header
        */
       .custom-header img {
       	max-height: 200px;
       	object-fit: cover;
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [stefaniescheidgen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaniescheidgen/)
 * (@stefaniescheidgen)
 * [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-header-image/#post-10675219)
 * Thank you very much, that worked 🙂

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 * Last reply from: [stefaniescheidgen](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefaniescheidgen/)
 * Last activity: [7 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/decrease-height-of-header-image/#post-10675219)
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