How-to guide

Aakash, this is your day-to-day workflow: drop a class of photos, let IDCraft align & enhance them all, review, and download. Fixing a single tricky photo by hand is covered too.

1 · Process a whole class (the main job) ⚡

1. Open BatchOpen the Studio and click ⚡ Open Batch in the left panel (or drop photos straight onto the “Batch process a folder” box).
2. Add the photosDrag the whole class folder's images into the window, or click to multi-select.
3. Set optionsOutput format (Same as original / PNG / JPG), JPG quality, Auto colour-correct each, AI face align (uniform), and Use current shape & fill mode. The defaults are already set for ID headshots.
4. Process & previewEvery photo is face-aligned, enhanced, and shown in a preview grid — just like your delivery folder. Review it, and if you tweak an option, hit ↻ Re-process.
5. Download ZIPLooks good? Click ⬇ Download ZIP. Unzip it into your PHOTO folder — done.

2 · What "AI face align" does

This is what makes a whole class look consistent, the way you'd do it manually — but automatically:

• Same face size — every head is scaled so faces match (about 70% of the frame).
• Even headroom — it finds the actual top of the hair (not just the eyes), so the gap above every head is the same, and no head gets clipped, whatever the hairstyle.
• Centred — the face is centred left-to-right.
• Levelled — mildly tilted heads are gently straightened.
• Clean colour — brighter, sharper, and the warm/yellow cast pulled down.

If a face can't be found confidently (rare — e.g. a very dark or unusual shot), that photo falls back to a safe centred crop instead of a bad guess, and you can fix it in Single edit.

3 · Fix a single photo by hand

For the odd photo that needs a manual touch, click 🖼 Single edit in the top bar (or open the collapsible on the left).

1. Drop the photoIt auto-aligns the face just like batch does.
2. AdjustUse Zoom, Straighten, drag to reposition, then Center face to re-align. Mouse-wheel also zooms.
3. Fine-tune colourClick ✨ Auto colour correct, or nudge Brightness / Contrast / Saturation / Sharpness / Temperature. Upscale adds resolution; Reset reverts.
4. ExportExport → PNG or JPG at exactly 1254 × 1254.

4 · Full ID cards (optional)

Beyond headshots, you can build a complete card:

• Photo shape — square, rounded, rectangle, circle, hexagon or octagon. Turn off “Photo fills whole card” to leave room for text below.
• Fields — Name, Class, Roll No, School, etc. Type a value, add it to the card, drag it anywhere, and style the text (font, size, colour, bold/italic, alignment, shadow). Add custom fields too.
• Logos & accent bar — upload a transparent PNG school logo, drag/resize/rotate it, and set a card background colour or coloured bar.

5 · Save, undo & shortcuts

• Save / Open project — keeps an .idcraft file with everything, reopens exactly as left.
• Undo / Redo — unlimited within a session.

Shortcut	Action
Ctrl/⌘ + Z	Undo
Ctrl/⌘ + Shift + Z	Redo
Ctrl/⌘ + S	Save project
Ctrl/⌘ + E	Export
Ctrl + Shift + R	Hard-refresh (to get the latest version)
Mouse wheel	Zoom the photo