Title: Header image is distorted
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Header image is distorted

 *  [cbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbmedia/)
 * (@cbmedia)
 * [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-is-distorted/)
 * I’m having an issue with getting my header image to appear properly.
 * I’ve had this same problem using two different premium Studio Press child themes(
   Generate and Streamline) as well with Twenty Ten and Twenty Eleven.
 * I have a 433 x 122 .png header image. I’ve uploaded the image via the header 
   tab. On the next screen, the crop window at it’s largest size removes most of
   the image. The image that appears on the header when I view the site is incomplete,
   and the small piece of the image that does appear on screen is blown up to several
   times the size of the partial image. I’ve tried a few other similarly sized images
   with the same result.
 * Strangely enough, if I upload the same exact images to a Canvas child theme, 
   the images appear on the site header perfectly fine.
 * Is there is a particular image format or size that I should be using? What am
   I doing wrong? Is there some other way of inserting the image into the theme 
   that won’t cause this problem? I’m not really that familiar with coding, but 
   does the coding need to be changed? Is something else causing this?
 * I’ve been spending a ton of time trying to figure this out, and I keep telling
   myself this shouldn’t be so complicated. I thought I could just upload easily
   and move on, but this has been very frustrating.
 * I could really use some help to get this fixed!! Thank you.

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 * [distorted images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/distorted-images/)
 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [header image](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header-image/)
 * [header size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header-size/)
 * [image size](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/image-size/)
 * [images](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/images/)

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 * Last reply from: [cbmedia](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cbmedia/)
 * Last activity: [13 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/header-image-is-distorted/)
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