Hi,
Yep it does. In fact I'm surprised you got bars, Messenger has a really nice algorithm for
making decent display pictures (in comparison to other clients anyway).
I have seen bars added before though, so don't think anything's wrong.
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"thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
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> Thanks. I was using a 16x9 formated photo and was experiencing black bars on
> it displaying as my WLM profile photo. I was messing around trying to fix it
> before you posted a response, and I made the dimensions square using 239x239
> pixels and it actually seems to be displaying fine..it must automatically
> scale the pixels down when I make it my profile photo or something.
>
> "Jonathan Kay [MVP]" wrote:
>
>> Greetings,
>>
>> 96x96.
>>
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>> Microsoft MVP - Windows Live Messenger
>> MSN Messenger/Windows Messenger
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>> "thebigdintexas" <> wrote in message
>> news:636EEFB8-CAE8-45B2-886F-...
>> > What are the optimum dimensions that your profile photo in windows live
>> > messenger should be?
>>
>>
>> .
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