Profile Picture Editor

Getting there

Where to start

Open Manage → Profile Image. Everything below happens right in the page — nothing is saved until you hit Finalize and Save Image.

Step 1

Supported formats

Upload almost anything, including photos straight off your phone:

Files can be up to 15 MB. Anything larger and the uploader will ask you to shrink it first.

Whatever you upload becomes a clean, sharp WebP, with hidden metadata — including any GPS location — stripped automatically.

Two of those can keep moving: an animated .gif or an animated .webp that you simply crop keeps its animation. Layers, rotation, flips, filters and background fills can only be saved as a still image — the editor shows a notice while an animated file is loaded, and asks the moment you try one of those edits. Cancel backs the edit out and keeps the animation; OK carries on and saves a still. It only asks once.

An animated .png (APNG) is the exception to the exception. It uploads fine, but it cannot keep its animation here and always saves as a still — the editor tells you the moment you load one, rather than letting you find out afterwards. Save it as an animated .gif or .webp instead if you want it to move.

Step 2

Getting your image in

• Browse — click the file box and pick an image.
• Drag & drop — drag an image straight onto the upload box.
• Paste — copy an image anywhere, then Ctrl+V (⌘+V on Mac).
• On mobile — the picker offers your camera or your gallery.

No need to shrink photos first — the size limit is generous.

Step 3

Cropping

After uploading you get the crop tool, with its controls under Transform. The box is locked to the right shape and starts centered on the important part of the picture — usually a face.

• Move / resize — drag the crop box or its edges.
• Zoom — scroll the wheel, pinch on touch, or use the zoom slider.
• Rotate — the Rotate slider turns the photo to any angle you like; the two rotate buttons jump in quarter turns. Flip H / V mirrors it.
• Turn it off-square and the corners it leaves over show your Background — empty, or whatever colour you fill it with.
• Reset — start the crop over.

A live Preview shows exactly what will be saved.

Step 4

Photo filter

Pick a look from the Photo filter list under Adjustments. The preview changes as you choose, and what you see is what gets saved.

The filter only touches the photo — not your other layers and not the background. A caption stays full-strength colour on a black-and-white shot.

Step 5

Layers

Stack text and pictures on top of your photo — a name, a caption, a badge, a cut-out. Add as many layers as you like.

The layers list shows the stack with the front layer at the top, the same way a photo editor does. Click a row to select that layer; Properties below then controls it.

Photo is your upload, and it behaves exactly like an image layer — move it, resize it, stretch it, rotate it, hide it, restack it. The only two things it will not do are duplicate and delete. Transform and Adjustments still set the crop and the filter behind it.

At the very bottom, Background is the empty canvas everything sits on. A checkerboard means empty.

The background only peeks out where the photo doesn't reach — a corner left over from rotating, most often. Select the Background row and Properties offers a Fill colour for it; Clear puts it back to empty. The swatch on the row works too, and always shows the current colour.

Left empty, those areas save as genuinely see-through, so whatever your picture sits on shows through them.

• + Text adds a text layer. + Image places a picture from your device — the same formats the uploader takes, iPhone HEIC included. ⧉ duplicates the selected layer.
• Drag a row up or down the list to restack it, or use ▲ and ▼ on the selected layer. ✗ deletes it.
• The ◉ on each row hides or shows that layer. A hidden layer stays in the list but is left out of the saved picture — handy for trying a caption two ways.
• Place it by dragging the layer around the preview.
• Resize it by hand — select a picture layer and eight amber grips appear on it. Drag a side grip to stretch one way, a corner to do both. The preview stays on screen while you work, so you can watch it as you go.
• Opacity, Size and Rotate work on any layer, text or image. Set opacity low for a ghosted watermark that doesn't bury the photo.
• Blend changes how a layer mixes with what is under it — Multiply darkens and lets the photo show through ink, Screen lightens, Overlay punches up contrast. Sixteen modes; Normal is the plain stack. Each layer keeps its own, and any layer set to something other than Normal shows the mode on its row in the list.
• Image layers get Height and Width as separate controls, so you can squash a picture into any rectangle — a short wide band, a tall narrow strip. Natural puts it back to the picture's own proportions.

Text options

These show only while a text layer is selected:

• Font — dozens, grouped by style: Display, Serif, Sans, Script, Gothic, Typewriter, and Themed.
• Color — any you want.
• Drop shadow — depth so text reads on any background (pick the shadow color too).
• Stroke — an outline around the letters (pick its color).
• Background — a solid plate of colour behind the letters. The surest way to make text readable over a busy photo.

Style presets

Found a look you like? Click Save current to store the selected text layer's style — font, size, color, shadow, stroke, opacity, and background. Pick it from the preset list later to drop the same look onto a new layer. Presets live in your browser, so they stay on the device you made them on.

Presets cover text styling only. The photo filter isn't part of one either — it applies to the whole picture rather than to a single layer.

Step 6

Saving

Hit Finalize and Save Image. Your crop, rotation, filter, and every layer are baked in at full quality, then sized down to your final picture — stored at 400×500, double the 200×250 it is shown at, so it stays sharp on phones and other high-resolution screens. It lands on your profile once processing finishes — usually a few seconds.