diff --git a/README.md b/README.md
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-# Heroku Quick Starter
+# Django Powered Photo Editor
 
-Sometimes it's very difficult for newbies to get Django app quickly setup for Heroku deployment. Heroku Quick Starter has been configured and ready to be deployed to Heroku.
+photo-editing
+[![Coverage Status](https://coveralls.io/repos/github/andela-snwuguru/photo-editing/badge.svg?branch=master)](https://coveralls.io/github/andela-snwuguru/photo-editing?branch=master)  [![Build Status](https://travis-ci.org/andela-snwuguru/photo-editing.svg?branch=master)](https://travis-ci.org/andela-snwuguru/photo-editing)
+
+Image speaks louder than voice. Photo editor gives you the opportunity to express your creativity and share it with the world.
+
+### Technology used
+
+- Django - Easy and faster way to build better web applications.
+- Djangorestframework - Django REST framework is a powerful and flexible toolkit for building Web APIs in Django powered apps.
+- React JS - A JavaScript library for building user interfaces
+- Bootstrap - A powerful mobile first front-end framework for faster and easier web development.
+
+### Features
+Photo editor provides you with several image manipulation options
+
+- Enhance image brightness, contrast, color and sharpness
+- Apply filters such as blur, contour, edge enhancement, emboss etc.
+- Transform tools such as flip and rotate
+- Effects such as colorize, posterize, quantize and more
+
+### How to use
+
+To install and run this application locally, you need to have python installed on your machine.
+
+#### Installation
+
+To install the build locally
+
+- `` $ git clone https://github.com/andela-snwuguru/photo-editing.git ``
+- `` $ cd photo-editing ``
+- `` $ pip install -r requirements.txt ``
+
+#### Set Up your environment key
+
+#### photo-editing/app/app/develop.py
+
+Develop.py file is required to get the database configuration. See content below
+```
+import os, sys
+BASE_DIR = os.path.dirname(os.path.dirname(__file__))
+SECRET_KEY = 'your secret key here'
+DATABASES = {
+    'default': {
+        'ENGINE': 'django.db.backends.sqlite3',
+        'NAME': os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'testdb.sqlite3') if 'test' in sys.argv else os.path.join(BASE_DIR, 'db.sqlite3'),
+    }
+}
+DEBUG = True
+
+ ```
+
+#### photo-editing/.env.py
+.env.py file is also required to configure secured information. See content below.
+
+```
+SECRET_KEY = "your-secret-code"
+SOCIAL_AUTH_GOOGLE_OAUTH2_KEY = 'oauth2 key from google'
+SOCIAL_AUTH_GOOGLE_OAUTH2_SECRET = 'oauth2 secret from google'
+SOCIAL_AUTH_FACEBOOK_KEY = 'app id'
+SOCIAL_AUTH_FACEBOOK_SECRET = 'app secret'
+SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITTER_KEY = 'customer key'
+SOCIAL_AUTH_TWITTER_SECRET = 'customer secret'
+
+```
+
+#### Run your build
+
+`` $ python app/manage.py makemigrations ``
+`` $ python app/manage.py migrate ``
+`` $ python app/manage.py runserver ``
+
+#### Running the test
+
+`` $ cd app && python manage.py test ``
+
+### How to Contribute
+
+This is an open source project, feel free to fork the repo, add functionality to the project and raise a pull request.
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diff --git a/app/templates/base.html b/app/templates/base.html
index 9704285..d32f730 100644
--- a/app/templates/base.html
+++ b/app/templates/base.html
@@ -8,7 +8,7 @@
     <title>Photo Editing</title>
     {% load staticfiles %}
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'mdi/css/materialdesignicons.min.css' %}" media="screen">
-    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/themes/cerulean/bootstrap.min.css' %}" media="screen">
+    <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/themes/cosmo/bootstrap.min.css' %}" media="screen">
     <link rel="stylesheet" href="{% static 'css/custom.min.css' %}">
     <link href="{% static 'css/slide.css' %}" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
     <link href="{% static 'css/magnific-popup.css' %}" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />