Profile Picture Quality

Hello,

I've been searching the forums on this but I'm either a search-dummy or just really confused.

I'm trying to make the profile pictures so when users upload their pictures for their profile pictures, the quality doesn't get distorted or downgraded. I want them to show as how it really is, or actually, no bigger than 1megabyte (just so it doesn't load as long).  My site is more for photographers/models, so quality of the pictures should be really up there.

Could anyone help me please?

As you found, any picture after upload automatically resized.

We have just one place where we can keep pics in original sizes - this is Shared Pictures. Here available button 'Original Size' , you can use it.