student card photo

hi!!

does the student card photo have to be a passport photo or can i take one of myself with a digital camera and just resize to what they want?

i cant b bothered 2 go and get one done lol so was just wondering.

Reply 1

username9945

I got mine done at the chemist, but only because I needed to renew my passport so I needed to get some done anyway. But I have seen people on here saying that they took one themselves on a plain background and resized it, so I guess you could do that too.

Reply 2

hereistheguy

yeh i did that (took my own!) but you need to send 4 off to the accomodation people when you get your offer so you might as well get them done.

Reply 3

rider_jones

I don't see why not... just make sure it follows the passport guidelines (e.g. neutral expression, no hat, plain background, etc)

Reply 4

blone_bomb

Any photo will do, mine certainly didnt have a neutral expression or plain background. Just make sure you can see your face.

Reply 5

username9945

hereistheguy

yeh i did that (took my own!) but you need to send 4 off to the accomodation people when you get your offer so you might as well get them done.

Oh yeah! I had to get 4 more done because of that since I already sent two of the ones I took for the Uni. Card to the passport people lol :s-smilie:

Reply 6

Frootz

Ok, so I just got my picture taken. Didn't bother with it before. BUT it's larger than it was supposed to be and I've no idea how to resize it :p:

I told the photographer to make it a square, which of course he didn't. And instead of 420 x 420 pixels, mine is 1536x2304 pixels and 495 KB... What do I do?

Reply 7

xGlitter88x

Frootz

Ok, so I just got my picture taken. Didn't bother with it before. BUT it's larger than it was supposed to be and I've no idea how to resize it :p:

I told the photographer to make it a square, which of course he didn't. And instead of 420 x 420 pixels, mine is 1536x2304 pixels and 495 KB... What do I do?

open the picture in Ms Paint and press CTL E together. The Attributes window will open and tick the pixel box and enter the dimensions in the Width and Height Box. and that should do it :biggrin:

Reply 8

philjw

Don't resize it in Paint! Use a proper image-editing program, unless you want it looking horrible and distorted.

Also the "Attributes" method won't resize the picture, it will crop it to the top-left hand corner.

Reply 9

philjw

JMG

Yea, any photo will do, unless they change it for the 2007 year, some of the photos I have seen on some cards this year were hilarious, and nothing like a passport photo.