diff --git a/src/Core/Command/UploadAvatarHandler.php b/src/Core/Command/UploadAvatarHandler.php
index 852b4c7b1..b5efe435d 100644
--- a/src/Core/Command/UploadAvatarHandler.php
+++ b/src/Core/Command/UploadAvatarHandler.php
@@ -97,8 +97,8 @@ class UploadAvatarHandler
 
         $manager = new ImageManager;
 
+        // Explicitly tell Intervention to encode the image as JSON (instead of having to guess from the extension)
         $encodedImage = $manager->make($tmpFile)->fit(100, 100)->encode('jpg', 100);
-
         file_put_contents($tmpFile, $encodedImage);
 
         $this->events->fire(