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So you’ve found this great blog template. It’s the perfect theme for you….except the pictures won’t work with what you have in mind. If you could only change a few of the images this template would be awesome! Well fear no more because with just a few quick and easy modifications, you can change the images on your blog to be the exact images of your choice.

This tutorial will show you how to replace existing images on your blog with new images.

Requirements:

1. Access to the admin area of your blog
2. FTP access/ability
3. NoteTab or NotePad

I will assume that you know how to navigate within your blog admin area, and that you know how to use your FTP software to upload data to your server.

Let’s get started!

Images for your blog theme are usually stored with this example type of path: /wp-content/themes/mytheme/images/

Fire up your FTP software and connect to your server (using your own domain name), follow the above path with your FTP program and download all of the images to a folder on your computer.

Open the folder on your computer that you just downloaded the images to. You may have to change the view of the folder in order to see thumbnails of the actual images. Find the image that you want to change. Hoover your mouse over the image until you see a little text image pop up.

Notice the dimension on the pop up box. That’s the size of the image that you need to replace. You need to find another image that is, for example, 139 width and 139 height in pixels. Replacing an existing image with another that is the same size will prevent you from going through the process of modifying the code.

You can search the Internet for free photos, or go to websites like BigStockPhoto or IStockPhoto to purchase images. I have found that I do better on the paid sites. I’ve found a few freebie images to use in the past, but they really weren’t of the quality that I needed.

If you can’t find an image that exact size, find one that is slighty bigger and resize it. Open up your favorite photo editor and resize it to the dimension you need.

Now, all you have to do is give the new image the same name as the old image, FTP the new image up to your server which will replace the old image (select YES if the program asks you do you want to replace the file).

Voila! It’s done!

Go to your web browser and refresh the page and you will see the new image. You can repeat this as many times as you want on as many images as you like. That’s the quick and easy way to change images on your blog.

Note: This process can be used for your website too. All you have to do is locate where your images are stored and follow the same procedures.