# Looking for digital photo software
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724
**Category:** Factual Questions
**Created:** [March 11, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724 "2021-03-11T17:56:44Z")
**Posts on this page:** 9
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### Author:  [@Saint\_Cad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Saint_Cad)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 5:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/1 "2021-03-11T17:56:44Z")
that I don’t even know exists.
Every year I need to take about 300 pictures and put them into IDs. The person who takes the pictures is very inconsistent so I have to spend days cropping and resizing. What would help is if there were a software package wherein I take the picture and it would save it as a user defined size (like 400px X 400px) and even better I could name the picture and save into a folder right there.
Is there anything out there like that?
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 6:12pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/2 "2021-03-11T18:12:10Z")
This product appears to do exactly what you want: [https://facecropjet.com/](https://facecropjet.com/)
I haven’t used it, so cannot vouch for it in any way
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### Author:  [@jnglmassiv](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jnglmassiv)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 9:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/3 "2021-03-11T21:10:53Z")
Image Resizer for Windows can resize to user-defined dimensions in bulk. It’s part of Windows PowerToys from Microsoft.
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### Author:  [@allyn](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/allyn)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 11:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/4 "2021-03-11T23:25:38Z")
I like [FastStone Image Viewer](https://faststone.org/) a lot.
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### Author:  [@GaryM](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GaryM)
#### Post date: [March 11, 2021, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/5 "2021-03-11T23:48:03Z")
That looks like the ideal solution. My gun club does photos for our entry system, but no cards. If we did I’d get this software.
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### Author:  [@AHunter3](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AHunter3)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 3:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/6 "2021-03-12T03:22:43Z")
Well, GraphicConverter will let you point to a folder full of images and apply a logical routine such as “If it is wider than it is tall save to x pixels by y pixels with maximum quality in JPEG format, whereas if it is not wider than it is tall save to y pixeld by x pixels instead; and put the resulting files over here in this destination folder I set up”.
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### Author:  [@DMC](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMC)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 3:47am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/7 "2021-03-12T03:47:18Z")
You didn’t state what platform, but [XNConvert](https://www.xnview.com/en/xnconvert/) (GUI) and [NConvert](https://www.xnview.com/en/nconvert/) (Command Line) allow batch processing of many image manipulation functions and are cross-platform. They’re also free for non-commercial use.
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### Author:  [@Mr\_Downtown](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr_Downtown)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 4:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/8 "2021-03-12T04:55:32Z")
I use Graphic Converter for lots of things like this.
But if I understand the underlying task, I might be inclined to use InDesign. I’d have a template of the proper size, set up with an invisible oval guideline that’s supposed to be the area filled by the face. I’d Place the photo, resize it based on the oval, Export as a JPEG of the proper spec, and give that the right name.
You can set up a very similar workflow in Photoshop or Graphic Converter, of course.
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### Author:  [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)
#### Post date: [March 12, 2021, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/looking-for-digital-photo-software/937724/9 "2021-03-12T16:47:18Z")
Yeah - there are basically three ways to do this:
- Photo Booth style - camera on a fixed mount, chair bolted to the floor, so the subject is always in the same region of the image - then you can script a crop/resize operation that is agnostic of the content of the images
- Software like the one I linked, which purports to recognise the image content and crop a useful image out of it.
- Manual crop and resize (the hard way)