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Create your own Passport Photo using GIMP

This tutorial is for semi-techies who knows a bit of GIMP (image editing).   This tutorial is for UK style passport photo ( 45mm x 35 mm ) which is widely used in UK, Australia, New Zealand, India etc.  This is a quick and easy process and one can create Passport photos at home If you are non-technical, use this link   .  If you want to create United States (USA) Passport photo or Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) photo, please follow this link How to Make your own Passport Photo - Prerequisite GIMP - One of the best image editing tools and its completely Free USB stick or any memory device to store and take to nearby shop A quality Digital camera Local Shops where you can print. Normally it costs (£0.15 or 25 US cents) to print 8 photos Steps (Video Tutorial attached blow of this page) Ask one of your colleague to take a photo  of you with a light background. Further details of how to take a photo  yourself       ...

Passport Photo Creation - Non-techies

If you believe that you can't follow the GIMP tutorial ,  you can upload your photos and the sites will do the rest so that it will become printable. Please note, you may need to think of privacy as you are uploading photo to a "cloud service" epassportphoto - Pros:Very flexible, have multiple countries, simple to use.  Cons: Generates only 4 photos and rest used for ads portraitbooth -  Pros: 8 photos in one go  Cons: Bit clunky idphoto4you -  Pros: Flexible, more than 70 countries  Cons: file formats limited. Once you have the photo ready, go to a high street shop like Boots and get a printout.  Prefer 6"x4" photos. epassportphoto http://www.epassportphoto.com/ Choose particular country (eg. UK) then press button: get my photos. Follow instructions. (everywhere put No Thanks !!) Use "Download passport photo sheet image" portraitbooth http://uk.portraitbooth.com/ Click button: Start Photo Booth, pops open a new window (make...

Creating Passport photos yourself at home

Ever wondered why wasting so much money to print your  passport photos? You could easily get 4-8 passport photos for £0.25 instead of £5 !!  That's 20times savings !! The below guide shows "How to Make passport photos at Home" There are two ways you can proceed to create your own passport photos: For Non-technical folks - Upload photo option Semi-Technical or Technical folks  - Do within your PC. Tutorial using GIMP The GIMP tutorial is now split to UK/Australia/India passport photos using GIMP - (3.5cmx4.5cm) US/Indian OCI passport photos using GIMP - 50.8mm x 50.8mm (2" x 2")

Microsoft msc command list

Windows Microsoft Management Console commands   AD Domains and Trusts domain.msc Active Directory Management admgmt.msc AD Sites and Services dssite.msc AD Users and Computers dsa.msc ADSI Edit adsiedit.msc Authorization manager azman.msc Certification Authority Management certsrv.msc Certificate Templates certtmpl.msc Cluster Administrator cluadmin.exe Computer Management compmgmt.msc Component Services comexp.msc Configure Your Server cys.exe Device Manager devmgmt.msc DHCP Management dhcpmgmt.msc Disk Defragmenter dfrg.msc Disk Manager diskmgmt.msc Distributed File System dfsgui.msc DNS Management dnsmgmt.msc Event Viewer eventvwr.msc Indexing Service Management ciadv.msc IP Address Manage ipaddrmgmt.msc Licensing Manager llsmgr.exe Local Certificates Management certmgr.msc Local Group Policy Editor gpedit.msc Local Security Settings Manager secpol.msc Local Users and Groups Manager lusrmgr.msc Network Load balancing nlbmgr.exe Performance Monitor perfmon.msc PKI Viewer pkivie...

Step by Step PEO appointment booking

Create UKBA account. Log-on the UKBA site. Next page , click 'Book Appointment' button. Question is : 'Which service are you applying for?'  -> Learn them beforehand and answer appropriately.. (eg choose SET(O) for ILR based on employment based categories) Next screen, 'Are you applying using the premium service?' -> Select YES Remember to put any dependents with you. Put the range of dates you wish to apply.  You could select maximum upto 3 PEO's. It will present the suitable options. Select and Then press NEXT with the suitable date Confirm. Ensure you receive Email confirmation [ad#ad-3] Please also See how to get appointment to PEO