A long-standing good suggestion. In the meantime as a workaround, if you turn "Video" ON, you can use a 3rd party program to transmit a picture of your choice continually as if it's your webcam feed. ManyCam and CamTwist are 2 programs that offer free versions that can push a picture out in place of a webcam, filling your video box with whatever picture you like. With this you can continually flip pictures in your gallery, for example, your character with a sad face, sleeping face, or other variations -- whatever portraits you have.