Passport Photo Maker
Make a passport or visa photo to any country's size, with a print sheet — free, and your photo stays on your device.
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Processed in this browser · JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP, AVIF or HEIC · one at a time
Digital: 600–1200 px square JPG, up to 240 KB, compressed at most 20:1
Print: 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm)
Turns an ordinary photo into a passport or visa photo at the size a document asks for: a digital file at its exact pixels and file size, or a sheet of copies to print and cut. A face-finding model places guide lines on your crown, eyes and chin and fits the crop to them, and the tool shows what the guides measure against the document's published ranges. Every size comes from the issuing government's own page, listed below. The photo stays on your device: the model runs in your browser.
How to use it
Choose the Document, then drop, paste or pick a photo taken against a plain background, with the head and shoulders in it and some space around them. With Find face on (the default), the model finds the face, places the lines and crops the photo so the head and eyes sit in the middle of the document's ranges. The first time, the model downloads from this site, once; after that it loads from your browser's cache.
The crop box keeps the document's shape: drag it to move it, by a corner to resize it, or type its position and size in pixels. Drag a line, or select it and use the arrow keys (Shift for 10 pixels), to put it on the top of the head (Crown, which includes the hair), the Eyes, the bottom of the Chin and the middle of the face (Centre). The lines stay on the face as the crop moves, and stay in order: crown above eyes above chin. Drag a line by its label or along it; elsewhere on the box, dragging moves the crop. Reset crop fits the crop to the lines again, wherever they are. Once a line is moved, the lines are yours: Reset lines, under Find face, or turning Find face off and on, puts them back on the face and fits the crop to them. Zoom with the buttons under the photo, Ctrl or ⌘ with the scroll wheel, or two fingers on a phone; zooming changes only the view. The buttons under the photo also rotate and flip it, and Straighten levels a tilted head by up to 45°.
Under the photo, Measures checks each range the document gives (head height, eye line, eyes to chin) and the centring, in the unit its source uses; for a document that gives none, the head height and eye line show for reference. Units are mm of the printed photo, or % of the photo's height (for the centring, its width). It measures where the lines are, so it is only as right as they are; it cannot judge the background, the expression or the lighting, which Check yourself quotes from the document's source.
Download photo saves it as a JPG at 300 DPI: the document's digital file where it has one, otherwise the printed size at 300 DPI. The Sheet (JPG) and Sheet (PDF) buttons, under the photo's download, save copies laid out on the paper chosen beside them, 4 × 6 in (default) or A4, for documents with a printed size. Custom takes any width and height in mm, inches or pixels, with optional head and eye ranges; checks appear only for the ranges you enter. Options are remembered on this device.
How it works
The model (MediaPipe Face Landmarker) marks 478 points on a face. The chin line is the point at the bottom of the chin, the eye line runs through the middle of the two irises, and the face centre is halfway between them. The model's points stop at the forehead, so the crown is estimated: the top of the forehead raised by 45% of the chin-to-forehead distance, which the note under Find face says until a line is moved. Hair varies, so check it on every photo. With two faces in the photo, or none, the lines start at a fixed place for you to move.
The crop is then sized so the head is at the middle of the document's head range, placed so the eyes are at the middle of its eye range (or, without one, with twice as much room below the chin as above the head, for the neck and shoulders), and centred on the face. Where a document gives no head range, the head fills 60% of the height (70% for the Schengen visa, which leaves room for its eyes-to-chin minimum): a starting point chosen by this tool. A face near the edge of the photo may leave the crop smaller or off centre, which the measures then show.
Measures are rounded to 0.1 mm or 0.1% and include both ends of the range. No document states how far off centre a head may be, so the tool uses 2% of the photo's width as its own measure.
A digital file with a size limit is searched for the highest quality that fits, counting 1 KB as 1,000 bytes for a maximum and 1,024 for a minimum, so it fits forms that count either way. The US visa page limits compression to 20:1, which sets a minimum too: an uncompressed photo takes 3 bytes a pixel, so a600 × 600 px file needs at least 54,000 bytes and a 1200 × 1200 px one 216,000. A photo that cannot reach its range is not padded: the result says how far it got.
The print sheet keeps a margin of 3 mm on 4 × 6 in, which labs trim, and 5 mm on A4, which home printers leave, with 2 mm between photos and a thin grey outline in the gap to cut along. The page turns sideways when that fits more copies. A 2 × 2 in photo fits 2 times on 4 × 6 in and 15 times on A4; a 35 × 45 mm photo 8 and 30 times.
Photo sizes by document
| Document | Printed photo | Head (chin to crown) | Eyes | Digital file |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US visa | 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm) | 50–69% | 56–69% from the bottom | 600–1200 px square JPG, up to 240 KB, compressed at most 20:1 |
| US passport (print) | 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm) | 25–35 mm | — | — |
| India OCI | 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm) | 25–35 mm | 28.6–34.9 mm from the bottom | 200–900 px square JPG, up to 200 KB |
| India e-Visa | — | — | — | 600 × 600 px JPG, 10 KB to 1 MB |
| India passport (abroad, digital) | — | 80–85% | — | 630 × 810 px JPG, up to 250 KB |
| Australia passport (print) | 35 × 45 mm | 32–36 mm | — | — |
| Schengen visa | 35 × 45 mm | — | at least 13 mm to the chin | — |
Rules and sources
Each document follows its own government's page. The US visa ranges are the digital ones from the Photo Composition Template (the printed template states 25–35 mm and 28–35 mm). The OCI photo PDF's eye line reads 1⅛ to 1⅜ in, shown here in mm rounded inwards. The e-Visa page sets no pixel size, so 600 × 600 px is this tool's choice.
The Indian passport figures, for applications made through a mission abroad, are from the Ministry of External Affairs' photo guidelines: 630 × 810 px, a white background, and the face taking up 80–85% of the photo, which this tool reads as the head's height against the photo's, since a face cannot fill that share of the area with the shoulders in the frame. Even so, 80–85% leaves little room for the “top of the shoulders” the same sentence asks for, so the tool fits the crop at 80%, the low end. The guidelines ask for photos “unaltered by computer software”; the Embassy of India in Berne, for applicants who cannot reach a studio, lets them make the background uniform and crop the photo themselves, and sets the 250 KB maximum used here.
The Schengen visa follows the Visa Code, which leaves photo rules to the ICAO standard; the sizes here are the Czech Ministry of Foreign Affairs' reading of it, and a consulate may add its own. The Australian Passport Office asks for dye-sublimation prints on glossy paper of at least 200 gsm, not inkjet, and does not recommend online photo services or apps; a lab can print the sheet.
Sources
- Digital Image Requirements — U.S. Department of State
- Photo Composition Template — U.S. Department of State
- Photo Requirements (visas) — U.S. Department of State
- Passport Photos — U.S. Department of State
- Requirement of photograph for OCI Registration — Ministry of Home Affairs, OCI Services
- FAQ (question 9) — Ministry of Home Affairs, OCI Services
- e-Visa application, photo and document requirements — Government of India
- Guidelines for ICAO Compliant Photographs for Passport Applications — Ministry of External Affairs, Passport Seva
- Notice reg. ICAO Photo Requirements — Embassy of India, Berne
- Photo guidelines — Australian Passport Office
- Photo — Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Czech Republic
- Regulation (EC) No 810/2009 (Visa Code), Article 13 — European Union
- Online passport renewal: upload a digital photo — U.S. Department of State
- Photos for passports — GOV.UK
- Passport photos — Government of Canada
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Frequently asked questions
See also
- Crop Image — to crop, rotate or straighten any photo to a free shape or exact size.
- Image Compressor — to bring a photo for another form under its size limit in KB.
- Photo and Signature Resizer — to fit a photo or signature to an exam's exact size in pixels and KB.