Upload a Personal Photo

[Pat Howlett]

A "Personal Photo" is one of the Requirements of Membership.

If you need to upload or change your Profile Photo please do the following;

- Go to your "My Page" and look under the Current Photo for the "Manage My Page or Photo" link
- click it
- on the next page look for the "Photo" area at the top and the "Browse" button.
- click it
- navigate to where your photo is on your computer and upload using the prompts

The canvas size is 183x183 for best formatting.

[Daniel Miller]

Pat
i've tried to upload my photo a dozen times from my desktop but it does not appear once i click the 'done' button. please don't delete my account before i get this worked out. help!

[Pat Howlett]

Hey Daniel - I'll shoot you an internal email and look forward to helping.

[Pat Howlett]

FOLLOW UP: Daniel sent me his photo and I edited it and sent it back for upload. The issue was that both the file and canvas size were huge. Re-sized it to 183x183 and it was good to go. Let me know if I can be of help.

[Steve Hand]

Pat:
Can you post some information about:
1) How to determine file size and
2) How to change it to a more manageable amount.
I faced the same issues with my picture and resolved it intuitively.
This would help people facing the same issue. I know of at least two others with the same issue... one on Inside919 and the other on Inside910.

[Pat Howlett]

Hey Steve, sorry for the delay.

1). Right click on the image on your computer and select 'Properties' - (Size).
2). You would need to use an Image Editing Program. There are many Shareware and Freeware options available - this is outside the level of support I can provide. There are Graphic Designers and IT inSiders who would love to help.

[Steve Hand]

Pat:
Thanks for reminding me.
My original picture was 1.6 MB and I resized it with Picasa which is freeware. My wife uses that software and likes it a lot.
-- Steve

[Steve Hong]

Easy Photo Editing Tools

For easy online photo editing, regardless of whether you use a Mac or PC, try the Picnik photo editor.

Professional Photo Editing Tools

If you want something much more complicated and full-featured, try the Phoenix image editor from Aviary or Photoshop Express from Adobe. Again, both are online tools.

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Steve,
Thanks for this suggestion. It took me only 2 tries to figure out how to get the Picnik photo editor to do what I wanted. It is a great tool for those of us who wouldn't know what to do with Photoshop even if we had it.

[Karen J Krasner]

Part of my head is cut off in my photo. How do I fix this? Thanks, Karen

[Pat Howlett]

Hey Karen, crop the photo to fit within 183x183 pixels and then re-upload (I have this posed in the instruction at the top) - that should do the trick.

[3u7elo9a4f85o]

Did it! Is it OK that I used one of my paintings as a frame for my photo?