Title: Reducing Header Image Height
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Reducing Header Image Height

 *  [frederic.bowne@aristata.co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericbownearistataco/)
 * (@fredericbownearistataco)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-header-image-height/)
 * Hi, I am trying to reduce the header image height on my site [http://www.aristata.co](http://www.aristata.co).
   The image of the sun rising over the earth takes up too much vertical space. 
   I’ve searched the forums to figure this out and am stuck. I am using the Twenty
   Eleven template and want to shrink the image height in half. I’ve looked in function.
   php and tried adjusting image height from auto to 160px and no luck. I’ve looked
   in style.css and tried to make same change to header size and no luck. I’ve used
   an image editor to adjust image to 1000px by 160px and WP forces cropping when
   I upload. I’ve tried the tool kameleoon to use a gui tool to resize it an no 
   luck. I am not very basic in HTML and would really love some help.
    Thank you
   very much for your help.

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 *  [dtlyme](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dtlyme/)
 * (@dtlyme)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-header-image-height/#post-2643555)
 * Hi – I hope you are using a child theme, if not do a search on WordPress to find
   out how to do one!
 * On your child theme style sheet try this:
 *     ```
       #branding img {
           height: 160px;
           margin-bottom: -7px;
           width: 100%;
       }
       ```
   
 * Also – if you are using Firefox I highly recommend installing FireBug – it helps
   you to isolate the CSS that you want to change!
 * I am by no means a CSS expert – but I hope this helps.
 *  Thread Starter [frederic.bowne@aristata.co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericbownearistataco/)
 * (@fredericbownearistataco)
 * [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-header-image-height/#post-2643664)
 * Thank you very much, I’ll give it a try and let you know how it goes:)

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## Tags

 * [header](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/header/)
 * [height](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/height/)
 * [resizing](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/resizing/)
 * [template](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/template/)

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 * Last reply from: [frederic.bowne@aristata.co](https://wordpress.org/support/users/fredericbownearistataco/)
 * Last activity: [14 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reducing-header-image-height/#post-2643664)
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