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Experimenting with advanced image settings

Clicking the Advanced Settings tab brings forth a wonderland of new and exciting (yes, I'm a geek) image settings to play with (Figure 6.26).

Advanced Image Settings

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Figure 6.26 Advanced image settings are powerful. Don't fiddle with them if you don't know what they do.

Here's what you need to know about the Advanced Image Settings options:

• Source. The source of the image is required, and the text box is prepopulated because you've already uploaded this image to your blog. You shouldn't have to change this information unless you recently moved your images to another folder.

• Edit Alternate Text. Use this text box to enter the image's <alt> tag (which I discuss in "Inserting an image from the Web" earlier in this chapter).

• Size. The Size options control the size of the image. These values are set when you click one of the percentages in the Size column. Don't worry about messing these values up; you can always reset the image to its true size by clicking the Original Size button.

• CSS Class. This text box probably will have some value in it. You shouldn't change this value unless you're familiar with the CSS (Cascading Style Sheets) settings of the WordPress theme you're using. (For more info on CSS and themes, see chapters 11 and 12.)

• Styles. This setting is another way you can have your site's CSS change how images are displayed. When you enter a value in the Image Properties section (which I talk about next), the Styles text box is populated with a value. WordPress uses CSS itself to control how your images are displayed.

• Image Properties. You can enter three values in this section: Border (which puts a black border x pixels wide around the image, where x is the number you enter), Vertical Space, and Horizontal Space. The latter two options values set the amount of horizontal and vertical padding, in pixels, around the image.

When you have all the values set the way you want, make sure to click the Update button to save your settings.

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