Where is my Mac OS X profile picture stored?

That's an interesting question! You should be able to find your profile picture within the System Preferences application, under "Accounts". Let's have a look...

Start with the Apple menu on the top left and choose "System Preferences".

Now click on "Accounts", which should be on the fourth row of icons.

Here's what you'll see:

If you put your cursor into the box that contains your image, watch what happens:

Cool. A secret menu! Click on the triangle and you'll see a ton of possible profile icons show up...

More importantly, you'll see "Edit Picture...". That's what you want. Select it. Now you'll see your icon in a bigger form:

Now the fun part. Since you can see your icon / profile picture / photograph in its original form, let's just grab a screen capture of it by pressing the weird key combination of Cmd-Shift-4. It's like Cmd-Shift-3, but instead of capturing the entire screen, puts up a crosshair and lets you click and drag to define the region to capture:

When you're done, poof, you'll have a perfect copy of your profile picture ready to email, save, store, upload to Facebook, whatever.

Hope that's helpful!

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