The old way used to resize the photo for you. Users link to any pic they've got hosted anywhere...or upload pics of different sizes. If the photo field is too restrictive of the size, users won't be able to figure it out. You ought to go back to having it resize the pics to the appropriate size. I had to ditch my pic too.
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