I just found out what i needed to create the dropdown menu. It turns out that WP has it’s own Theme Customization API with live preview https://codex.wordpress.org/Theme_Customization_API.
Awesome.
Yes that would be the header image dropdown code, i would like to see how wordpress did it. There is an image bellow which header dropdown menu i talk about. And no i don’t use a child theme i make my own from scratch.
http://tinypic.com/view.php?pic=2v0hp1s&s=5#.Uni5APmfh1F
It’s http://www.wpexplorer.com/pytheas-free-wordpress-theme/ Pytheas responsive theme. I want to get another highlights row at the end.