SDSHOWTO:Student photos
Basic Requirements
- You need photos in .jpg format named by student number, eg 123456.jpg .
- Photos should be shrunk down to a maximum outer box of 216x288.
- Photos should be saved at 0.75 quality in GIMP
Software Required
- Install David's Batch Processor for GIMP from here: http://members.ozemail.com.au/~hodsond/dbp.html . Extract the Windows EXE and place it in C:\Program Files\GIMP\lib\gimp\2.0\plug-ins
- Install WinSCP or WinSCP Portable
Procedure
- Extract the photos off of the photo CDs that are provided by each school
Resizing Photos
- Create an empty folder to store the resized photos
- Run GIMP
- Go to Filters -> Batch Process
- On the Input tab, click the Add Files button
- Select all of the photos to be resized and click the Add button (this takes a while), then click the Close button on the Add Image Files window
- On the Resize tab, check "Enable" then select "Absolute" immediately underneath. Enter width 216 and height 288 with fit Inside
- On the Rename tab, click the "Select Dir" button and choose your empty folder
- On the Output tab, choose Format JPG, and ensure quality is set to 0.75
- Click the Start button at the bottom of the window and wait until the resize is complete