Techie Tip for Blogger Images

Today I'm joining up with Erica to share techie tips for blogging and TPT.  

Click HERE or on the image to visit Erica's Ed-ventures blog post.

I've given my blog a bit of a face-lift today. Nothing too extreme, just a little botox in the wrinkle zones.  : )

Here's the problem: When I saved my signature image as a png, it uploaded to blogger with a black background. What?! There's no background in a png - it's been removed. So how can it be black?

Here's the source of the problem: 
Blogger automatically imports all of your images to Picassa where they are saved. Google also automatically "enhances" your photos, which is great - except it also sometimes leaves the black background around png images. Not so great.

There are a few fixes for this, but the easiest one is to disable the settings in Google.

1. Disable the default "auto-enhance" by going to you G+ account and choosing "settings".

2. In the "photos" section, UNCHECK "Automatically enhance new photos"

3. To apply that to your signature, upload your png image in a new post, and copy the html.

4. In Blogger, go to 
Settings ---> Posts and Comments ---> Post Template

5. Paste your html in that box and save.

Each time you start a new post, your signature image will be there automatically with NO black background.  



If you also want to remove the white border around your images like I did below, the instructions are HERE.

Hope that saves someone a bunch of headaches!

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One more techie tip for your blog: If you want to highlight a new product in your sidebar, you can simply add it with an "image" widget and link it to your store page.
  
Here's the step by step: