1. Get player photo, crop to 95x95 and save in PNG format. There may be fancy ways to do this but MS Paint works for me. The convention I use for filenames is lower case firstname and lastname, space separated ("fred bloggs.png").
2. Put it in a folder (whatever name you choose is fine) and put the folder in "C
Documents and Settings\<your name>\My Documents\Sports Interactive\Football Manager 2007\skins\"
3. Create a CONFIG.XML file in the folder you just made. It should look like this:
Quote:
<record>
<!-- resource manager options -->
<!-- dont preload anything in this folder -->
<boolean id="preload" value="false"/>
<!-- turn off auto mapping -->
<boolean id="amap" value="false"/>
<!-- logo mappings -->
<!-- the following XML maps pictures inside this folder into other positions
in the resource system, which allows this folder to be dropped into any
place in the graphics folder and still have the game pick up the graphics
files from the correct places
-->
<list id="maps">
<record from="daniel sturridge" to="graphics/pictures/person/5127717/portrait"/>
<record from="lee wilkie" to="graphics/pictures/person/2016229/portrait"/>
</list>
</record>
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The "record from" name is the name you gave the PNG file. The numeric ID you can get by running FM 2007 and selecting Preferences > Display & Sound > Show Unique IDs.
(the example above is one I use to include photos for Daniel Sturridge and Lee Wilkie)
4. Once complete, run FM 2007, ensure Preferences > Display & Sound > Use Skin Cache is unticked and Preferences > Display & Sound > Always Reload Skin On Confirm is ticked, then save your preferences to reload the photos.
making player pictures!! 
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