grrr...

[lavenderrose319]

 ok, so I feel like a complete retard.  I want to change my picture but am failing miserably to do so.  I have a bunch of pictures up loaded from my phone that I would like to use...but I believe that they're all JPEG which can't be uploaded here...so I post a question to all you who are more technically gifted than I.  How can I get my pictures

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Are You Sure?

[viciousduck]

Are you saying that LiveJournal won't let you upload JPG's as a user pic? I've done it bunches of times. Are you sure?

Edit Your Photos

[viciousduck]

I was pretty sure, but I checked just in case. JPG (JPEG) is an acceptable user pic format. LJ limits the size of each user pic to 100pixels height and width with a limit of 100k file size.

If your image files are in JPG format, then you need to edit them to make them smaller. Usually, if you get them down to 100px square, the file size will be small enough to work.

If you don't have access to Photoshop or something like that, I suggest using Microsoft Photo editor. It comes with Windows. (I assume you're on a PC and not a Mac.) Be sure to make a copy of your image first, and edit the copy. Use the crop tool to make it square, then use the resize option to make it 100px by 100px. It will be pretty small, but that's what LJ wants.

I hope this helps. If you have more specific questions about this, give me a holler.

[atdt1991]

If you continue to have trouble, send me the photos, I'll make thumbnails for you and send them back. You then save them to your computer and go to the icon area of livejournal and link to them, and it'll work just fine.