Ok, I had to test the theory and it looks like it worked even though the forum gave me a message that I had uploaded an invalid file. And yet I am seeing the front view of the 52 Merc as my avatar so that tells me it worked. What I did was use a link to where I have the photo posted on another site and pasted that link in where they ask you to .So far, so good Ralph, but I don't think that's all it takes. When I did mine, I had to reduce the picture quite a bit so it would fit the parameters of the avatar. They may have improved this function since I did mine.