# How Do You Add a Photo to Your Profile? **URL:** \ **Category:** About This Message Board\ **Created:** [August 10, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214 "2017-08-10T01:20:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:20am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/1 "2017-08-10T01:20:33Z")
Well, now I’m embarrassed! I’ve been urging everyone to add a photo to their profile in the **[“Yet ANOTHER picture thread? Trying to revive an online Portrait Gallery”](http://boards.straightdope.com/sdmb/showthread.php?t=539257)** thread but now I realize I don’t even remember how to do it. I have an old pic on mine that I think was very easy to add but I’ve forgotten. How do we add a photo to our personal profile? Also, to any of TPTB who may answer this, I think it’d be great if you encouraged Dopers to add a pic to their profiles if you feel so inclined. **Arnold Winkelried** is no longer around to keep his website of Doper pix updated so it would be a great way, IMO, for folks to see other Doper’s photos. ---
**Author:** ![USCDiver](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/uscdiver/32/354_2.png) [@USCDiver](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/USCDiver)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/2 "2017-08-10T01:23:12Z")
I don’t know if it’ll work, but in my User CP there is a link for Edit Profile Picture. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/3 "2017-08-10T01:27:19Z")
Hold on. I think I’ve found it. Go to **"User CP"** Under “Your Control Panel” on the top left side of the page click on **“Edit Profile Picture”.** It’s the third item down after **“Profile Privacy”**. I guess this thread can be closed since I’ve figured it out but I was really asking this so that anyone else who wanted to add their pic would know how to do it. ---
**Author:** ![Drunky\_Smurf](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/drunky_smurf/32/449_2.png) [@Drunky\_Smurf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Drunky_Smurf)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/4 "2017-08-10T03:29:03Z")
“Edit Profile Picture” does not show up as an option for me to click on. Maybe it’s only available to paid members. ---
**Author:** ![I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/i_love_me_vol.i/32/521_2.png) [@I\_Love\_Me\_Vol.I](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/I_Love_Me_Vol.I)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 3:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/5 "2017-08-10T03:38:10Z")
Ahhhh… maybe so. I didn’t think of that. ---
**Author:** ![BigT](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/bigt/32/12044_2.png) [@BigT](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/BigT)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 4:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/6 "2017-08-10T04:11:41Z")
Yeah, I’ve been a paid member before. It’s just a paid option. Though, if you use the [SDMB Avatar](https://greasyfork.org/en/scripts/2027-sdmb-avatars) script, you can just post the URL of an image in your “About Me” section on your profile, and that will be used as your avatar. You’ll need to upload your image to an image hosting site that gives you the raw image link, like [imgur.com](http://imgur.com). For that particular site, the image URL will be in the form [noparse][Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://i.imgur.com/%5B/noparse%5D*unique_name*.*filetype)\*. So, for instance, my avatar is at [http://i.imgur.com/FkIirPe.jpg](http://i.imgur.com/FkIirPe.jpg). The main page for it is at [Imgur: The magic of the Internet](http://imgur.com/FkIirPe). (Though, full disclosure: I’ve not used the Avatar script myself for a long while. I just have the avatar there for people who do.) ---
**Author:** ![Joey\_P](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/919ad9/32.png) [@Joey\_P](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Joey_P)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 1:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/8 "2017-08-10T13:22:40Z")
> [@skinwants](#): > > In this article, I will introduce two tricky ways for you to add or change your profile pictures/avatars in Microsoft Outlook at ease. > > This method will guide you to change your profile picture/avatar with creating a new contact, and then adding a picture/avatar for this new contact in Microsoft Outlook.For adding an image or icon into every message automatically, we can define the image or icon as an signature. But how about inserting an image or icon frequently. Did you forget to leave out the link to your website giving us two tricky solutions to a problem not asked about, while you were posting in the other thread? Bad spammer -2 points. ---
**Author:** ![Corner\_Case](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/corner_case/32/234_2.png) [@Corner\_Case](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Corner_Case)\ **Post date:** [August 10, 2017, 5:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-do-you-add-a-photo-to-your-profile/793214/9 "2017-08-10T17:39:10Z")
The option is only available for the hot-looking members. [sub]And no, that wasn’t, necessarily, a euphemism.[/sub]