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Passport photo sheet tools?
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Balked at paying $8/pair for ID photos. I needed three pairs, so it was going to get a bit pricey. I also hate it when the shot looks bad; even if they offer to retake it, I typically feel bad about it. Thankfully most US government agencies have gotten rid of their requirement for three-quarter profile and adopted the State Dept's passport photo standard. So I whipped out my Canon PowerShot S3 IS and we took some shots against a white wall. I thought I'd try a freeware tool called "DIY Passport Photo", but there was no documentation, and I couldn't figure out how it worked. I guess there were a few shareware tools, but some were free trial with a watermark. I thought about using a photo editing tool (I have Graphic Converter for Mac OSX) to lay out different sections on a "sheet" (designed for a specific print size), but it seemed like I'd have to cut a square with our faces, resize, and paste several times. I'd done something similar on a PC with photo printing tools, but the colors were all off with that printer. So I found ePassportPhoto.com. Seemed really simple. I just uploaded the photos and dragged a box around our heads with green boxes placed on the top of the head and the chin. Then it produced a sheet of six identical 2x2" photos designed for a standard 4x6" photo print. Just made three (18 total sections) real wet-process prints for less than 75 cents at the Kodak kiosk at a local Target store and cut them. In the future, does anyone know of a simple passport photo editing tool (Mac OSX or Vista), just in case they discontinue their service (seems mostly advertising based). Perhaps something where the print size can be specified and maybe it's slightly oversized with a border around each. The 4x6" sheets produced by ePassportPhoto.com had thin black lines, and I had a little difficulty trying to trim them away without cutting away too much. I've seen other shareware tools with sample results showing a white border. I think the Kodak photo kiosk at Target also can make sheets of ID photos, but I'm not sure if there's an extra charge for it. |
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Passport photo sheet tools?
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:26:49 -0800 (PST) in rec.photo.digital, y_p_w
wrote, So I found ePassportPhoto.com. Seemed really simple. I just uploaded the photos and dragged a box around our heads with green boxes placed on the top of the head and the chin. Then it produced a sheet of six identical 2x2" photos designed for a standard 4x6" photo print. I don't know about the green boxes, but once you have your 2x2 crop here is an ImageMagick command to paste six copies into a 4x6 sheet. (%1 represents your file name.) convert %1 +clone +clone +append +clone -append multi_%1 .. |
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Passport photo sheet tools?
On Dec 29 2007, 10:05*pm, David Harmon wrote:
On Thu, 27 Dec 2007 11:26:49 -0800 (PST) in rec.photo.digital, y_p_w wrote, So I found ePassportPhoto.com. *Seemed really simple. *I just uploaded the photos and dragged a box around our heads with green boxes placed on the top of the head and the chin. *Then it produced a sheet of six identical 2x2" photos designed for a standard 4x6" photo print. I don't know about the green boxes, but once you have your 2x2 crop here is an ImageMagick command to paste six copies into a 4x6 sheet. (%1 represents your file name.) * *convert %1 +clone +clone +append +clone -append multi_%1 The embedded application places the uploaded photo so that the eventual 2x2" box can be selected. I clicked on one corner, and as I expanded the square, it had translcuent green rectangles that are supposed to target the top of the head and the chin. I guess it's supposed show the State Dept's 1 to 1-3/8" vertical height for the head. Once the size of the box is laid down, the box can be dragged around to place the head within the box. Nice tool, and I'm sure something similar can be done on a local computer's software. This one finally produces an 1800x1200 that downloads to the local computer or gives options to send to a third party to print. Thanks for the suggestion. So I'd have to produce a square image first, right? ImageMagick looks like a command line tool and not something with a high-level GUI. |
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