Paul Cutcliffe
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I'm almost ready to go live with a new website for my business using Artisteer & DotNetNuke, and until now I've been happy with the textual Title & Slogan. But now I've designed a graphic logo, & would like this to replace the textual Title & Slogan. Is that possible within Artisteer, or does it require some 'hacking'?
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amanda
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Absolutely possible! No hacking required at all!
select the option "Insert Picture from File" within the header tab of Artisteer. You can insert a background or foreground image. If you wanted to use an artisteer background image or effect and want to lay your own logo graphic in the foreground you can do that as well. PNG files work well in this instance.
Good Luck! 
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Paul Cutcliffe
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Excellent, thanks for the tip. I already have a foreground photo and a background, & s subtle Flash effect. So I'd like to add my logo to either the foreground image with its transparent background, or the background image. Trouble is, I can't find them anywhere!
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Mark C
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export the theme. Open your "images" folder in the theme folder. Choose Header.jpg and use GIMP or Photoshop or whatever to add your logo to the file, save the file, and then you have a logo instead.
Make sure to switch off slogan/site name on your site when uploaded.
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Paul Cutcliffe
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Thanks - I can see what you mean, although this will only allow me to add the logo 'post-Artisteer', but I'd really like to add it within Artisteer, so I don't have to re-do this every time I update the Skin in Artisteer. If I could find the images that Artisteer provides, then I could simply add my logo to the foreground image & use the 'From File...' option. Any idea where those files are stored? I've looked in all the obvious places like Program Files\Artisteer & Users\??\AppData etc, but to no avail.
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Mark C
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Someone asked a similar question recently about adding custom images to the artisteer images folder and apparently artisteeer wouldn't be able to read them anyway - something about how the programme is configured.
What you could do is name your new header header-mine.jpg (or something) and then each time you export your theme you just need to change where it says header.jpg to header-mine.jpg using a search and replace.
I hope that helps.
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Paul Cutcliffe
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Thanks for your help, Mark C. What a shame that Artisteer doesn't either (i) allow you to add your own custom logo in addition to using the built-in images, or (ii) allow you to edit the built-in images so you can add your own logo. Of course, if it did the former, there'd be no need for it to do the latter!
Anyone from Artisteer reading this? Could you please add this functionality? The custom logo could simply replace the Title & Caption, as I can't see many people wanting both.
Anyway, this time around I've found an alternative image (though I have to say it's not as good as the built-in one I had chosen!), added my own logo, & used that as the foreground image instead.
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Mark C
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Apparently there used to be logo support, but it was removed as it conflicted with other things. They really ought to try to add it back in and make it clickable to the homepage.
Mark C.
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Paul Cutcliffe
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Yes, what an excellent idea!
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