# What is the best practice to handle profile picture?

**URL:** <https://forum.keycloak.org/t/what-is-the-best-practice-to-handle-profile-picture/10551>\
**Category:** Miscellanaeous\
**Created:** [August 16, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/what-is-the-best-practice-to-handle-profile-picture/10551 "2021-08-16T12:44:01Z")\
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**Author:** ![Nefcanto](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/forum.keycloak.org/nefcanto/32/3670_2.png) [@Nefcanto](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/Nefcanto)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 12:44pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/what-is-the-best-practice-to-handle-profile-picture/10551/1 "2021-08-16T12:44:01Z")

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Keycloak is excellent. However, almost all applications now support “profile picture”. Even this discourse group shows GitHub profile pictures.

I don’t find a setting for enabling profile pictures for users.

I thought about handling pictures in my own database. But then I thought about identity providers like Google. How should I handle pictures in that case?

Can you guide me in this?

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**Author:** ![xgp](https://yyz2.discourse-cdn.com/free1/user_avatar/forum.keycloak.org/xgp/32/2589_2.png) [@xgp](https://forum.keycloak.org/u/xgp)\
**Post date:** [August 16, 2021, 4:45pm UTC](https://forum.keycloak.org/t/what-is-the-best-practice-to-handle-profile-picture/10551/2 "2021-08-16T16:45:51Z")

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This is not part of Keycloak. A few extensions have been built that allow this. There is a prototype here: [GitHub - thomasdarimont/keycloak-avatar-minio-extension: Simple example for managing avatar images with Ke](https://github.com/thomasdarimont/keycloak-avatar-minio-extension)