A user avatar is used as the icon for your profile to illustrate your comments on an issue and your Hover Profile.
To add a user avatar:
- Click your user name at the top-right of the page to open your User Profile at the Summary tab page.
- In the Details section, click the add user avatar icon
(or its adjacent edit icon). The Choose an Avatar dialog box opens.
If you have already added a user avatar to your JIRA profile, that avatar will appear in place of the add user avatar icon above.
Screenshot: Choose an Avatar Dialog Box
- On the left of the dialog box, choose one of the following categories from which to select your user avatar:
- All — Shows all built-in and custom user avatars.
- Built-in — Shows only the user avatars which are pre-packaged with JIRA.
- Custom — Shows only the custom user avatars which you have added through your JIRA user account.
- Click a user avatar on the right of the dialog box to select it.
You can also create a 'custom' user avatar from an image file. To do this instead of choosing an existing one, continue on. - Click the 'Browse' button and in the resulting dialog box, browse for and choose an image file.
- Click and drag the centre of the superimposed square to select the centre of the new image.
If desired, click the corners of the square to re-size the area for your new image.
Screenshot: Centring and Re-sizing your Custom User Avatar
- Click the 'Choose Avatar' button to create the custom user avatar.
- The image from your selected area will be cropped, re-sized to 48x48 pixels and saved.
- A separate 16x16 pixel version of your custom user avatar will be generated for use in comments.
- Custom user avatars are only visible to the account through which they were created.