How to Make Your Images Larger on Blogger

'Sing a Happy Song' 5x7 pastel ©Karen Margulis sold

Art blogs need great photos of art. When I started this blog in 2005 I chose Blogger because it was the most user friendly of the blogging platforms at the time. I have been pleased with how easy it is to quickly post a photo and write and edit posts. I like how my art looked too.
Last year I changed my main website to Wordpress. The difference in how my art displayed on the Wordpress site was obvious. My images appeared much larger and I loved how clean and simple the background was. See my website here. I was tempted to change this blog over to Wordpress but I am such a creature of habit that I didn't want to learn a new interface for posting. But I was now very disappointed in the way my paintings appeared here on Blogger. They were so tiny, even on the largest setting. It didn't matter how large my file was, the large size didn't get any bigger. (The painting of the Chickadee in the snow is the standard Large Image size on Blogger...the Chickadee at the top of the post is a resized Large) But the internet is a wonderful thing. A Google search turned up several tutorials on how to resize the standard images on Blogger.

'Chickadee in the Snow' 5x7 pastel

I chose the easiest, least technical method and I want to share it with you in case you would like larger than standard images on your Blogger blog. You do need to edit the Html but I promise it isn't hard to do.

1. Upload your image as you normally do. Choose the largest image size.
2. You will now see your image in the editing/posting box. Look at the top of this box and you will see two tabs 'Compose' and 'Edit Html'. Click on the 'Edit Html' tab.
3. Now you see the Html code for your image. All you need to worry about it the size so look for the number for the Height. It will look like this : Height: 320px; " You want to delete this number and the semi colon but leave the Quotation mark in place.
4. Now, just before the height information you will see a number for the width. Change this number to 500px.
5. Finally look for something that says s400. Change the 4 to 8 . It should now read s800.
6. You are done! Click on the 'Compose' tab at the top of the box and you will see your image larger. Continue working on your post as usual.

Now you can have a larger than standard image on your Blogger blog and visitors can have a better look at your images. Of course it helps if you have a good system for photographing your work but that is for another post!
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