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Posted by user510 (A) on October 18, 2006 at 13:19:08

In Reply to: Boy scout eagle project-Digital resizing help posted by fwestern753 on October 18, 2006 at 06:23:01:

a low cost method for producing a picture ID card using software commonly available on a Windows based PC.
First the photo. My version of Windows 2000 Pro comes with a simple no-frills photo editor called Microsoft Imaging. The spash page includes the Kodak logo so I assume this is the company that actually wrote the application. Anyway, photos can be resized within MS Imaging by:
1) opening the jpg image within MS Imaging.
2) upper menu bar shows an image size window that shrinks or enlarges the image in percentage increments. This feature is also available from zoom item in the upper menu bar. To shrink the image choose a percentage value that is less than 100%.
3) Save the resized image to a new filename in a convenient folder for your work.
4) Use MS Word to create the template for your ID cards, then insert the photo by using the menu items "insert/picture/from file" function off the top menua bar. The image may be resized within MS Word via the mouse and the handles by first left clicking on the image to select it. Then make note of the small squares along the photo borders at the corners and midpoint of each side. These squares are mouse selectable and can be used to resize the photo to suit your document. I'd recommend that images may be reduced in size with good results but may not be enlarged without loss of image quality.

All of this will take practice but can be learned without buying any special applications.....assuming you already have the above mentioned software. Should be a snap for an Eagle Scout.

This is just one way. Another would be to make use of publishing software to do the same thing described above. Perhaps you already have one of the MS Office suites..? If so you may have MS Publisher. In there you should find a suitable template, or means to easily make one specifically for this purpose.

Hope some of this helps.

-Steve

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