The Profile picture tab in the Settings dialogue contains all the functions for managing the profile picture:

• The square preview area appears empty if no profile picture is in use and none has been uploaded yet.
  
  

• Uploading an image is made possible by a File element below, which can be used to upload an image file as the basis for the picture via drag & drop, or a selection window can be opened with a click.

►NOTE◄ It is not possible to insert an image from the clipboard of the client operating system at this point.

The uploaded file appears immediately in the preview area, where it can be edited if required for use as a profile picture:

• By default, the User menu displays a circular image section as the profile picture.
  
  

• Unless the uploaded image has square proportions (width=length), only a section of the image will appear in the preview area.
  
  

• The undimmed circular area in the centre symbolises the section of the overall image to be used as the profile image.
  
  

• The image can be moved using drag & drop to customise the image section.
  
  

• The slider below regulates the zoom level, which can also be changed using the mouse wheel if necessary.
  
  

• The buttons to the right of the slider rotate the image in increments of 90° to the left or right.

Once the desired image section for the profile picture has been successfully ‘targeted’, the result can be adopted as the profile picture using the Set Button.

If a satisfactory result is not achieved, there are various actions to choose from:

• The process can be cancelled completely by clicking on the X symbol at the top right of the dialogue (not shown in the picture) or by pressing the Esc key.
  
  

• Clicking on the No profile picture Button not only cancels the current edit, but also removes any previously assigned profile picture.
  
  

• Click on the X symbol in the file name below the preview to remove the image so that a new one can be uploaded.

►NOTE◄ The image uploaded for editing is not completely uploaded to the Lobster Data Platform server when it is Set. Instead, only a square section of the image is transferred.

The screenshot on the right shows the preview that a user sees when they select the Change profile picture function again after it has been Set. It is therefore not possible to subsequently ‘zoom out’ in order to recover parts of the image that have been removed by ‘cropping’.

The file size is minimised and any content that is cut off remains ‘private’.