Answers.Body: <p>Maybe not the answer you are looking for, but I asked a similar question. I needed to grab the original size of the user uploaded images.</p>
  
  <p><a href="https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/change-the-size-of-a-users-profile-photo">Change the size of a users profile photo?</a></p>
  
  <p>You can just use <code>getPhotoUrl('original')</code> when calling the images on the front end.</p>
  
  <p>This doesn't give you an 'untouched' version of the image but Craft stores the original and makes it easy to call.</p>
  
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Answers.Text: But this "original" is still the rectangularly cropped version of the original "original", Jason?
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Answers.Text: I will have to try that this afternoon, but I believe the original is the actual original and they crop it for the CP only.
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Answers.Text: I tried this already, you get the cropped version with the original quality.
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Answers.Text: Ahh, maybe a request to p&t to change this behavior. The other answer posted here is the same method I used for a staff listing.
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Answers.Body: <p>You could add a custom asset field for the users' profile images and hide the default one in the CP.</p>
  
  <p>Here's a plugin to do this: <a href="https://github.com/lindseydiloreto/craft-cpcss" rel="nofollow">Control Panel CSS</a> by Lindsey D</p>
  
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Answers.Text: Lol, actually I just posted this to the [question below yours](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/1363/change-the-location-of-the-user-photos), but it fits here too. :D
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Body: <p>When uploading user profile images, Craft forces you to crop it to a square. Is there a way to keep the images untouched instead?</p>
  
Tags: <user-profile>
Title: How do I tell Craft not to automatically crop user profile images?
ThreadText: # How do I tell Craft not to automatically crop user profile images?
  
  (Asked by: username_0 on 2014-07-24)
  
  When uploading user profile images, Craft forces you to crop it to a square. Is there a way to keep the images untouched instead?
  
  **Tags:** user-profile
  
  
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  ## 2 answers
  
  ### Answer by username_2 on 2014-07-24. Score: 4 | Accepted answer
  
  You could add a custom asset field for the users' profile images and hide the default one in the CP.
  
  Here's a plugin to do this: [Control Panel CSS](https://github.com/lindseydiloreto/craft-cpcss) by Lindsey D
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: Lol, actually I just posted this to the [question below yours](http://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/1363/change-the-location-of-the-user-photos), but it fits here too. :D  
  
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  ### Answer by username_1 on 2014-07-24. Score: 3
  
  Maybe not the answer you are looking for, but I asked a similar question. I needed to grab the original size of the user uploaded images.
  
  [Change the size of a users profile photo?](https://craftcms.stackexchange.com/questions/1030/change-the-size-of-a-users-profile-photo)
  
  You can just use `getPhotoUrl('original')` when calling the images on the front end.
  
  This doesn't give you an 'untouched' version of the image but Craft stores the original and makes it easy to call.
  
  > **Comments:**
  > **username_2**: But this "original" is still the rectangularly cropped version of the original "original", username_1?  
  > **username_1**: I will have to try that this afternoon, but I believe the original is the actual original and they crop it for the CP only.  
  > **username_0**: I tried this already, you get the cropped version with the original quality.  
  > **username_1**: Ahh, maybe a request to p&t to change this behavior. The other answer posted here is the same method I used for a staff listing.  
  
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