SDSHOWTO:Student photos

Basic Requirements

• You need photos in .jpg format named by student number, eg 123456.jpg .
• Photos should be shrunk down and compressed (procedure below)

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