A passport photo maker crops your own photo to an official size, such as 2 × 2 inches or 35 × 45 mm, with the head at the allowed height, and saves it at 300 DPI for printing or upload.
Passport and visa photos fail on two kinds of rules: things you can measure and things you can only judge. This tool handles the measurable ones. It sets the frame to the exact printed size, draws the allowed head height as a top line and a chin band, and saves the result with the pixel count and DPI that make it print at the right size.
It does not detect your face, change your background or retouch anything. You place the photo by hand against the guides, which keeps you in control of how the face is framed and avoids the edits that offices reject.
A phone photo taken upright is 3024 × 4032 pixels. With the US 2 × 2 in preset the finished photo is 600 × 600 pixels, because 2 inches at 300 DPI is 600 pixels. The allowed head height of 1 to 1⅜ inches becomes 300 to 413 pixels.
At 100% zoom the photo just covers the frame, so its 3024-pixel width is squeezed into 600 pixels, about a fifth of the original. A head that measured 1,000 pixels from chin to crown in the original is now about 198 pixels, too small. Zooming to 180% makes it about 357 pixels, in the middle of the allowed range, with the crown on the top line and the chin in the band.
Switch the output to Print sheet with 4 × 6 in paper and you get a 1200 × 1800 pixel JPEG holding six copies in a two-by-three grid, with thin grey cut lines. Switch to Upload and you get a 600 × 600 pixel JPEG kept under the 240 kB the US visa system accepts.
Each preset was checked against the official page linked in the tool. Head height is measured from the bottom of the chin.
| Document | Photo size | Head height | At 300 DPI |
|---|---|---|---|
| US passport and visa | 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm) | 1 to 1⅜ in, to the top of the head | 600 × 600 px |
| UK passport | 35 × 45 mm | 29 to 34 mm, to the crown | 413 × 531 px |
| Germany | 35 × 45 mm | 32 to 36 mm, to the hairline | 413 × 531 px |
| Canada | 50 × 70 mm | 31 to 36 mm, to the crown | 591 × 827 px |
| India | 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm) | 25 to 35 mm, to the top of the hair | 600 × 600 px |
| Australia | 35 × 45 mm (35–40 × 45–50 allowed) | 32 to 36 mm, to the crown | 413 × 531 px |
Sources: US Department of State, GOV.UK, German Consulate General Hong Kong, Government of Canada, Embassy of India, Paris, Australian Passport Office. Rules change; the official page always wins over this table.
Document sets the frame, the head guides and the background advice. Custom takes any size in millimetres, which covers visa, residence-permit, student-card and exam photos that ask for something different.
Zoom and Straighten scale the photo and turn it up to 10 degrees either way, enough to level eyes on a slightly tilted phone shot. Show guides hides the lines so you can judge the framing; they are never part of the file.
Photo saves one image at the exact size. Print sheet fits as many copies as possible on 4 × 6 in, 10 × 15 cm or A4, turning the page if that fits more: eight 35 × 45 mm photos on 4 × 6 in, 36 on A4. Upload appears for documents with a published digital size: the US visa square of 600 to 1200 pixels under 240 kB, the UK minimum of 600 × 750 pixels, and India’s 20 to 100 KB file. Fill colour only shows if you zoom out past the edge of the photo.
Use it when you have a good photo and need it at the right size: renewing by post, a visa application that wants prints, an online form that wants a file, or extra copies of a photo you already had taken.
Skip it when the photo itself is the problem. Shadows on the face or wall, a smile where a neutral expression is required, tinted glasses, hair over the eyes or a blurry picture cannot be fixed by cropping. Some rules also limit home-made prints. GOV.UK says a printed UK passport photo must not be a cut-down version of a larger picture, so use the Upload output for an online UK application and a photo booth or shop for a paper one. The Australian Passport Office says it does not recommend online passport photo services or mobile apps. Check how your application wants the photo before you print.
Will this photo be accepted? The tool gets the size, the head height and the print resolution right, which are the measurable rules. Acceptance also depends on things it cannot judge: lighting, shadows, focus, expression, glasses and a recent likeness. The passport office decides, so read the official page linked under Document before you submit.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere? No. The photo is decoded, positioned and saved inside your browser. Nothing is sent to a server, and the page keeps working if you go offline after it has loaded.
How do I make the background white? Use a plain light wall when you take the picture; that is the simplest route and what most offices expect. If the wall is busy, open Remove Background first, put the cut-out on white, then bring the result back here. Do not change your face, skin tone or hair; the Indian rules, for example, say not to retouch, enhance or soften the photo.
Can I print the sheet at a pharmacy or photo shop? Yes. Download the Print sheet for 4 × 6 in or 10 × 15 cm and order it as a standard photo print. Ask for no cropping or borderless fitting, because a print that is scaled to fill the paper changes the photo size.
Why does 10 × 15 cm only fit two US photos? A US photo is exactly 2 inches, which is 50.8 mm. Two of them side by side need 101.6 mm, and 10 × 15 cm paper is 100 mm wide, so only one column fits across. Choose 4 × 6 in, which is 101.6 × 152.4 mm, to get six.
My country is not in the list. What do I do? Choose Custom and type the width, height and head height in millimetres from your form or embassy page. If the form gives inches, multiply by 25.4. The frame, guides, print sheet and 300 DPI file all follow your numbers.
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