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For Teams Pictures in Microsoft Teams, is there a recommended image size or resolution?

Anonymous
2020-02-26T11:16:45+00:00

We know how to change the Team Picture in Microsoft Teams but we're having issues in getting the image to look nice. 

It seems OK when we upload it but then Teams compresses it and it goes blurry.  

We're playing around with bigger and smaller sizes and resolutions and have tried the 100x100 pixles recommended in another forum.

But still no luck.  If we can find out what it wants we can produce an image to that specification but we can't find that listed anywhere. 

We're tying to create a company branded set of images/icons for people to chose their Team Pictures from.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-06-23T13:02:09+00:00

    I accessed my Teams account online, and through inspecting with the browser tools, I discovered that this is the source of file Microsoft's generic Teams icons:

    https://statics.teams.cdn.office.net/evergreen-assets/teamavatars/TeamAvatarsSpriteClassSetUp.svg

    In case they move it, here's what it looks like:

    The dimensions of the image are irrelevant. They use HTML to describe the specific area that is visible, so you see one icon at a time. HTML also tells it what size to be. Because it's an SVG, it can scale without pixelation.

    In my company Teams environment, I can only select a JPG or PNG for a custom image. I don't know if that is a limitation my company set, or if Microsoft limits the file type.

    This doesn't help solve our problems when trying to upload a custom avatar. But it does explain why MS Teams default avatar icons look good, and ours don't.

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-04-19T11:31:33+00:00

    Gosh, If it is this complicated to simply upload an image or photo, how difficult is the program going to be? I manipulate graphics on a regular — actually daily — basis. After 30 minutes of trying, I give up. I'll just use Zoom.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-05-11T20:44:35+00:00

    So, I've tried uploading a .PNG and .JPG images along with different ppi images, but Teams continues to render a very blurry image. Makes me feel like I'm using Windows '98 on a NetScape internet.

    Here's a bit more info on the image I tried uploading... What does it take improve my user experience MS?

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-03-04T11:03:41+00:00

    Hi,

    We've tried testing with an image that was 200x200 pixels and 300x300 ppi but its still blurring. 

    We've noticed the images we use for our profiles which are clear tend to be around 450x450 pixles and that does show a slight improvement when used for the Teams picture. So we're now going to increase even more to see if that helps. 

    Ali

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-02-26T11:57:07+00:00

    Hello Ali,

    By my current search, there isn’t official article that will list all recommended resolution of images for Teams. Based on my experience, you could use any third-party tool to customize picture format, like its compression or resolution, change it to 96ppi to see if this way can make any difference.

    Besides, to have a better overview of your current situation, you could also share one screenshot of the original image, and another one of the compressed in Teams with us for comparison. To protect your privacy, you can share related information with us in Private Message: https://answers.microsoft.com/en-us/privatemessage/inbox .

    Best Regards,

    Anna

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