How To Change Your Avatar, Mini Profile Background Color, & Background Image

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I think making the uploading of images easier will help this site grow.
I tried to teach myself how to resize an image for my avatar this fine morning, and finally had some success! The only problem is, after over an hour of struggling I find it far too cumbersome to ever try again.
I'm sure there must be easier ways of doing it, but I'm techno-challenged. I've shot my wad on one upload....

Though ATS didn't have a resizing option either. I'm going to renable the resizing option here, but I was getting the feeling that image ratios weren't working correcting. I'm still working on it all. Lots to do, but it's going to be a good year!