# Automatic profile picture when creating an account

**URL:** <https://community.glideapps.com/t/automatic-profile-picture-when-creating-an-account/58949>\
**Category:** Ask for Help\
**Created:** [March 9, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automatic-profile-picture-when-creating-an-account/58949 "2023-03-09T10:54:47Z")\
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**Author:** ![Mino69](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/mino69/32/55375_2.png) [@Mino69](https://community.glideapps.com/u/Mino69)\
**Post date:** [March 9, 2023, 10:54am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automatic-profile-picture-when-creating-an-account/58949/1 "2023-03-09T10:54:47Z")

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Hi there,

To be simple, I would like each of my users to have a profile picture automatically generated when they create their account. You know exactly like Google or Outlook do, with their initials and a random background colour. I know that when creating a Glide account, we also default to our initials with a random colour as our profile picture.

So I would like to add this to my app, if anyone knows how to do this.

Thank you all for your help, and have a nice day. 🙂

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**Author:** ![ThinhDinh](https://sea2.discourse-cdn.com/flex002/user_avatar/community.glideapps.com/thinhdinh/32/49_2.png) [@ThinhDinh](https://community.glideapps.com/u/ThinhDinh)\
**Post date:** [March 10, 2023, 12:33am UTC](https://community.glideapps.com/t/automatic-profile-picture-when-creating-an-account/58949/2 "2023-03-10T00:33:50Z")

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> **[Free API to generate avatars with initials - User Initial avatars](https://ui-avatars.com/)**
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> Generate image avatars with user initials for free, just specify name. No limits or registration.

You can use a service like this to generate a default image from the user’s name.

If the “image” column you allow them to add images to has no value, show the default image above, else show the image they uploaded.