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Originally Posted by Freesteyelz

Personally, what I'd do is keep one of the fields active (let's say avatar); meaning disable the profile picture in the Usergroup permissions. Set the avatar file dimension and file size as well. Then change the phrase of avatar to "avatar/profile picture". The only template editing you'll need to do is with the postbit or postbit_legacy and memberlist templates. It is there that you will need to manually set the dimensions of the image to appear. If you don't then the image will appear to the dimension size you've specified in the Usergroup settings. In your public members profile pages the images will appear normal.

This way if you ever want to re-activate the profile picture for something else you have the option to do so.

Hmm I've got a semi-grasp on what you just explained. So in the memberinfo template where the profile picture shows up, I'd call the avatar with no size restrictions. In the postbit I use, I'd call the avatar but with size restrictions.

If that sounds right.. how would I set the avatar size displayed in postbit legacy? Also ould this call the full picture, or dynamically resize it? I'll try this out tonight.

since a number of members have signed up with profile pics, i'm going to try and use profile pics and have the postbits dynamically resize the profile pic into avatar size. can you help with instructions that way?

this might turn out to be a useful hack for others too.