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Optimize Images for Your Profile Page

Here are some tips and requirements for uploading your profile photo.

You will have to enter the "photo filename" on the Add or Edit page and upload the image on a different page.

Photo filename
"Name" of image is something like "joe23.jpg" or "DSC001255.JPG" or "logo1.gif". Enter this exactly and remember that it is case sensitive so joe.JPG is different from joe.jpg.

Do not leave spaces in filename. Underscore character is OK to use.

Image format must be .jpg or .gif. If it has an extention such as .tif, .bmp, .swf, .png or something else, it must be changed first.

Uploading image
First, you must optimize the photo or graphic to reduce the dimensions and file size to an appropriate degree (such as 80KB or less) for internet viewing. Follow these steps, generally:

Open the image in editting software such as Photoshop, Windows Picture and Fax Viewer or another program that came installed on your PC or came with your digital camera, scanner or printer. When you do the following steps, you may want to "Save As" a different name, so that you still have a full size original.

1. Crop the image to get rid of any unimportant parts except for the subject(s) of the photo/picture.

2. Reduce the width/height, maintaining the proper ratio. It may start as over 1200px of both and you need it to be at least under 500px for both for a very large display and as little as 150-250px for an large thumbnail size.

3. Doing both of these will greatly reduce the "file size", which may start as large as 2MB. For a regular size photo on a website, we need it to be under 60kb, unless it will be appearing in a new window as a blown-up size. If the file size is too high, many imaging software programs will allow you to reduce the "image quality" (for example, from maybe 95% to 85%)

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