What a pain this actually is. Here are the steps assuming you have Photoshop:
- Take your photo against a white background (a wall for instance).
- If you can turn on the grid feature of your camera, so that you take a “square” picture. On a 3:2 system that means you want to chop off the bottom third.
- Start photoshop and load the photo. Choose the crop tool and hold the shift down so it is square and cut out the extra parts.
- Get your dropbox account and put this photo (i can them 2×2) in there so when you are traveling you always have a digital photo. Good for replacing passports etc.
- While you are at it take a photo of your passport and drivers license and stuff them up there too.
- Now here is the tricky part. There is no easy way to print a bunch of 2×2 on a single 4×6 sheet.
- You have to get an old script (see the instructions) and then run Photoshop in 32-bit mode to get it to run!
- On a Mac, do this by going to Applications folder and doing a Info on Photoshop CS5 and click on the open in 32-bit mode button and start
- Now you will see in File/Automate the Contact Sheet option and then you have to load a bunch of copies of your photos (six for a 4×6)
- Then run the contact sheet and you get the six images stitched together. Argh!
