Here's how to use custom portraits

Seems a few people were already asking about it, so here's how to make custom portraits show up in BG:EE

1) Go to your User(s) folder. You know, the one that has My Pictures, My Music and so on. Look for My Documents, then Baldur's Gate - Enhanced Edition.

2) There you create a folder called Portraits (with a capital P), and that's where you placed your custom portraits. Mind that the dimensions are different now:

Large: 210x330 (not really necessary, so don't worry if you don't have it)
Medium: 169x266
Small: 54x84

Now you will notice that when choosing your portrait, a CUSTOM button appears right beneath the portrait you're currently seeing.

Also remember that file names cannot have spaces, need to be 8-chars long at maximum, and also require the letter S, M or L, according to their size. Ex;: xxxL.bmp, xxxM.bmp, xxxS.bmp

And yeah, they have to be 24-bit bitmaps.

TROUBLESHOOTING:

- If converting JPEGs to BMPs doesn't work, try to open up your original file, selecting the entire image area, copying it, opening up a new file with the same dimensions, pasting and finally saving it as a 24-bit BMP.

- IMPORTANT: you need to restart the game before it'll pick up any new files you put in your Portraits folder.

EDIT: I was ninja'ed by several people on other topic, so don't thank me! This is just for future reference.