Image hero
Theme section
The Image hero section provides a highly-customizable feature for your boldest product photos and promotional content. Create a unique section with plenty of content and visual design blocks, video player, multiple buttons, and comprehensive image settings.
Set up section
Add this section to any template (except Checkout) and use the drag-and-drop handles to re-order its position. You can add this section multiple times with different content and settings.
Editing a template changes all pages that use that template. To edit specific pages, you can you can create new templates or insert dynamic content with metafields.
Add featured image
Upload an image and customize it’s size, focal point, and overlay colors. You can uploaded an alternate mobile-specific image to appear on smaller screen sizes.
Add content blocks
The Image hero has three default content blocks: Accent, Heading, and Text. You can edit or remove these blocks and add 7 other types of blocks to customize the section’s content and layout.
Available blocks
Click (+) Add block to find and select the following blocks. Use the drag-and-drop handles ⋮⋮
to change the order of the blocks.
Block | Description |
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Accent | Add text to display a small heading above the main heading. |
Heading | Add text to display as a heading. |
Text | Add multiple lines of rich text. |
Text list with icons | Add a column of promotional text with icons. |
Image | Add a small image with an adjustable size. |
Button | Add a button link with call-to-action text. |
Video player | Add a video that can be played in a popup viewer. |
Divider | Add a border to visually separate other blocks. |
Spacer | Add a margin of space between blocks. |
Add video player
Add a video that visitors can can click to view within a popup video player. You can either use an uploaded .mp4
video in your Shopify files or embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo.
Click (+) Add block and select Video player to add your video.
Add Shopify-hosted video
To use a Shopify-hosted video, upload a .mp4
file to your Shopify admin and select the video in the block settings.
Embed video from URL
To embed a video from YouTube or Vimeo, paste the video link in the block settings.
Add buttons
Add multiple Button blocks to link to your collections, products, or any other page with call-to-action text.
Settings reference
Click the Image hero section to find the following settings.
Image hero
Setting | Description |
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Enable full width | Choose to span the image across the whole window or screen, removing the margins on either side. |
Banner height | Set the banner height to either Adapt to image (use your image’s height) or select a Custom height. |
Custom desktop height | Choose a Fixed height (in pixels) or Relative height (as a percentage of the window height). This setting applies when the Banner height is set to Custom. |
Custom mobile height | Choose a Fixed height (in pixels) or Relative height (as a percentage of the window height). This setting applies when the Banner height is set to Custom. |
Image | Select an image to display as the hero image. The image will override the color scheme and use the overlay colors selected in your theme settings. There are no required image dimensions. We recommend a minimum width or height of 2500px. |
Mobile image | Select an image to display as an hero image for mobile screens. The image will override the color scheme and use the overlay colors selected in your theme settings. There are no required image dimensions. We recommend a minimum width or height of 2500px. |
Image focal point | Select the most important part of your image to keep centered. Use focal points to avoid unwanted cropping across different screen sizes. You can specify a focal point for an image used within a section or for an uploaded image file. Learn more in our Image settings guide. |
Mobile image focal point | Select the most important part of your mobile image to keep centered. Use focal points to avoid unwanted cropping across different screen sizes. You can specify a focal point for an image used within a section or for an uploaded image file. Learn more in our Image settings guide. |
Image link | Paste a URL or select a page to make the entire image a clickable link. |
Section Content
Setting | Description |
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Content width | Set the maximum width of the section: between 400 and 1000 pixels. The section will change in size to fit smaller screen sizes. |
Text position | Choose the placement of the headings and content blocks within the section. Select one of nine positions. |
Mobile text position | Choose the placement of the headings and content blocks within the section. Select one of nine positions. |
Image overlay
Setting | Description |
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Tint opacity | Use the slider to adjust the transparency of the overlay color. Set the opacity to 0% to turn off the overlay color. If set to 100%, the overlay will be opaque. |
Tint style | Choose to use a Solid overlay color or Gradient overlay for the tint. The gradient style fades across a range of hues. You can select the angle and direction of the gradient from one of four options. |
Override with custom colors | Check this option to use custom overlay colors for the tint. These colors will override the overlay colors selected in your theme settings. |
Text color | Select a custom color for the headings and text. This setting applies only if the Override with custom colors option is enabled. |
Tint color | Select a custom overlay text color for the tint. This setting applies only if the Override with custom colors option is enabled. |
Text box
Setting | Description |
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Show text box | Choose to show a border around the section content. |
Text box style | Select the style of the text box, if enabled. Choose from multiple options to display a Soft drop shadow, Solid drop shadow, or Borders with different thicknesses. |
Color scheme | Change the color scheme applied to text block. Select the Default color scheme from your theme settings or select a variant scheme based on the default colors: either Inverse, Soft, Accent, or Sale. You may also select one of the two custom color schemas. Learn more about Color schemes. |
Override with custom colors | Check this option to apply custom colors to the text box. These colors will override the color scheme. |
Text color | Select a custom color for all text in the text box. This setting applies only if the Override with custom colors option is enabled. |
Background color | Select a custom color for background of text box. This setting applies only if the Override with custom colors option is enabled. |
Section style
Setting | Description |
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Top spacing | Increase or decrease the amount of space above the section. |
Bottom spacing | Increase or decrease the amount of space below the section. |
Enable animation | Choose whether to display visual effects when scrolling, hovering, or interacting with the section. See the Animation guide to learn more. |
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