Resizing profile photo

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  bahamaswriter · Member · Dec 18, 2015 at 1:13 am

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  My profile photo is too large. How do I make it smaller? Thanks!

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  kc94108 · Member · Dec 18, 2015 at 7:02 pm

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  Hi there,

  WordPress has a few key photo editing features built into it. I wanted to share with you this handy support article to get you pointed in the right direction.

  https://en.support.wordpress.com/images/image-editing/

  You’ll want to especially check out the Resize portion of the article.

  Please let me know if you have any further questions!
  KC

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  timethief · Member · Dec 18, 2015 at 7:11 pm

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  The best practices for successfully uploading your Gravatar, Avatar and/or Blavatar images including image sizing are found under the video here https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2010/01/24/gravatar-avatar-blavatar/

  Using free image editing programs to size and optimize images prior to uploading means you don’t waste your free media storage space http://en.support.wordpress.com/space-upgrade/, you get the best image quality, and you don’t end up troubleshooting images.

  You can optimize and re-size images by using either free desktop image editing software found at http://en.support.wordpress.com/media/image-optimization/ or by using free online image editing software to fit the space you intend to use it in.

  I believe these will help you:
  https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2012/03/26/cropper-or-proper-image-preparation/
  https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/2009/11/28/ten-free-online-image-compression-and-optimzation-programs/

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  bahamaswriter · Member · Dec 19, 2015 at 1:30 pm

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  Many thanks, KC. I’ll check this out.

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  bahamaswriter · Member · Dec 19, 2015 at 1:31 pm

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  Thanks timethief. I’ll take a look at what you’ve suggested.