SDSHOWTO:Student photos

Basic Requirements

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

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

Run WinSCP
Create a new session to hostname: SDS1, username: your Linux username, password: your Linux password
Drag your resized photo directory across to your home directory on SDS1

Run PuTTY and connect via SSH to sds1
Create a new directory in the /var/www folder with the correct name. The format is:

StudentPhotos2013-2014

where you should only need to update the years. The command to create the directory is:

sudo mkdir -p /var/www/StudentPhotos2013-2014

sudo cp ~/YourFolderName/*.jpg /var/www/StudentPhotos2013-2014/

Each campus can be done individually. Since each student number is different, copying in additional photos to the StudentPhotos20xx-20yy will not overwrite any files that are present.
Retakes can be handled in exactly the same way. The new photos will overwrite the old photos. When you run the Photos import in SDS, it will overwrite their previous picture with their new picture.