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OK, you've probably been wondering about that "RISC PhotoCapture" box at the top-right of the form, and we don't blame you.  RISC PhotoCapture! was a new feature introduced with RISC v7 that allows schools to capture and display a photo of each student together with their RISC contact record.  Rather than utilising student photos provided sometimes by the school photographers which are often incomplete, not covering the entire school enrolment, RISC PhotoCapture! lets you take your own photos and have them attached immediately to each student's record.  And as each photo is less than 4KB in size, disk space is no issue.  So how can that be?  No digital camera takes photos that are so small, and how can they be attached automatically to RISC?

RISC PhotoCapture! does not use a standard digital camera.  Instead, it uses an inexpensive and practical USB WebCamera, available from most computer suppliers for under $50.00!  Simply load the drivers that come with the USB WebCam onto a suitably located Windows computer and plug in the webcam.  If you setup a chair in front of a plain backdrop with appropriate lighting, then it's just a matter of having students come one by one into the RISC PhotoCapture "studio".  The first step is to call up the student's name in RISC, as we've done with our friend, Phillip Brown above.  Type in the surname and press Enter.  Next, you need to launch the RISC PhotoCapture! tool.