The following is a step by step guide to customising your Chromatophore logo image by replacing the logo text with your own organization or company's name and logo.
In order to utilise the Fireworks Source PNG included with the Chromatophore template release, you will need Adobe Fireworks. The 30-day free trial of this software as well as more information is available here at the Adobe website.Customising Your Logo
One of the first steps of customising your new Chromatophore template will undoubtedly be altering the logo text to reflect the name of your company / organization. RocketTheme makes this process a simple one by including both the Source PNG for the template, as well as font(s) used.
The most effective way to customise the logo is to use the included Source PNG file. When opened in Adobe Fireworks, this file contains all of the Layers in the design allowing you to tweak and change any of the image elements of the template design. The following steps will help you quickly get your new logo ready to go:
Step 1
First, open the main Source PNG file in Adobe Fireworks (chromatophore-source.png). On the right side, you will notice a taskbar named Layers. Inside this column, a list of elements within the source will appear, divided into folders. The first is Web Layers which controls the green slices on the page that are used to export the images. Click the eye which is immediately left to the folder name Web Layers to make it invisible. This allows use to edit the logo. NOTE: In order to make the background of the logo transparent, you will want to click the eye icon to the left of the Backgrounds folder, which will hide the background making all of the elements transparent.
Step 2
Next, double click on the logo which should be positioned in top-left. This will activate the text tool so you can edit the element. Highlight the entire text box with your cursor and type your text instead(such as your company name.)
Step 3
On the right column where the Web layers area is, we need to reactivate it. As you did in the initial step, select the eye icon to make it visible and subsequently making the slices visible on the canvas. Select the logo slice, either on the canvas itself or in the Web Layers folder. If you find the slice is too small, hover your cursor the blue points around the slice and drag it to a new size
Step 4
To export your logo, right click on the green slice that is situated above your new logo. A popup menu should appear with numerous options. The value we want to deal with is "Export Selected Slice...". As the name suggests, this option will export/save this slice only out of the entire source window.
Step 5
Once you have successfully edited then exported your new logo, you will need to upload it to your server. This process is best done via a FTP client such as Filezilla
- Open your FTP client on your local computer.
- Login to your web server where Chromatophore is installed.
- Navigate to the /templates/rt_chromatophore/images/ directory.
- Upload logo.png to this directory (You may need to browse on the local panel in the FTP client to find where you have exported your logo).
- Clear your browser cache before viewing such as using the keyboard commands on Windows, Ctrl+F5.