Passport Size Photo Generator
A passport size photo maker with ten document presets, from the US 2×2 inch to China's 33×48 mm, plus a head-and-eye guide and a 4×6 print sheet at 300 DPI.
Drag & drop or paste an image here, or
Drag the box to frame the face inside the oval, and any corner or edge to resize. Keep the eyes near the line and the head filling most of the oval.
This crops and resizes your photo to the official dimensions and fills the background colour. It does not check head size, expression, or lighting and cannot guarantee acceptance — final approval is always at the issuing authority's discretion. Check the official requirements for your document.
How to use
- Set Document before anything else. Changing it later resets the crop box, since every preset has its own shape and its own head guide.
- Add your photo, and on a phone Take photo opens the front camera. Once the box lands, drag it until the eyes meet the line and the head fills the oval. Tick Replace background if the wall behind you is the wrong colour, then tidy the cutout with Add back and Erase.
- Press Download photo for a single JPEG, or Download print sheet for the tiled 4×6. The status line tells you how many copies went onto the sheet.
About this tool
Pick your document first and the rest of the passport size photo follows from it: the pixel dimensions, the background colour, where the head oval and eye line sit, and whether the JPEG has to be squeezed under a file cap. Ten presets are in the menu. US 2×2 inch renders at 600×600. The 35×45 mm standard shared by the UK, the EU and Schengen, India, Australia, Japan and the Philippines renders at 413×531. Canada and Brazil come out 591×827, China 390×567, and India's digital portal wants 630×810.
Add a photo and a small face detector runs over it, then drops the crop box roughly where it belongs. It reads adults facing the camera well and infants badly, so the box stays yours to move. Drag the middle to shift it, drag a corner or an edge to resize. The aspect ratio is locked to your document, so nothing can get stretched by accident. The dashed oval and the horizontal line are the target: eyes on the line, head filling most of the oval.
Tick Replace background when the wall behind you is the wrong colour. The subject gets cut out and placed on the shade the document requires, white for most of them, light grey for the UK, the EU and Australia. A result preview appears underneath with an Add back brush and an Erase brush, which is what you want when the cutout eats a strand of hair or leaves a halo by an ear. The colour box starts on the official shade and the picker will take any other, with a line beneath it that says so whenever your choice stops matching the requirement.
Download photo gives you one JPEG at the exact pixel size, tagged 300 DPI so a lab prints it at the physical size intended rather than guessing. Download print sheet tiles copies onto a 1200×1800 canvas, which is 4 by 6 inches at that same 300 DPI. Everything past sizing and framing is out of scope. Expression, lighting, glasses and the rest of the biometric rulebook get judged at the counter, and the page links the official requirements for whichever document you picked.
Before you rely on it
- Dimensions, background colour and framing are the whole job here. Whether your expression, your glasses or the shadow behind your shoulder passes is decided by the issuing office.
- Face detection is tuned for adults looking at the camera. Babies, steep angles and heavy shadow often defeat it, which is exactly why the crop box is draggable.
- The print sheet is fixed at 4×6 inches, so a lab that prints 5×7 or A4 needs its own layout. How many copies fit depends on the size you picked: six for the US and 35×45 mm presets, nine for China's 33×48 mm, four for Canada and Brazil, two for India's tall 630×810 portal photo.
- Output is JPEG only. On the US and India-portal presets the quality is stepped down automatically to fit under 240 KB and 300 KB, so a very detailed photo gives up a little sharpness there.
Frequently asked questions
Why did my printed passport photo come out too big?
That happens when the file carries no resolution and the printer falls back to 72 DPI, which blows a 2×2 inch photo up to roughly 8×8 inches on paper. Both downloads here write 300 DPI into the JPEG header, so a kiosk or a home printer reads the intended size straight out of the file. The sheet is a true 4 by 6 inches and each photo on it is its country's exact millimetre size.
Which countries can I make a photo for?
Ten presets ship in the menu: the US at 2×2 inch, the UK, the EU and Schengen, India at both the 35×45 mm print size and the 630×810 portal upload, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, the Philippines and Brazil. Each one carries its own background colour and head guide. Plenty of other countries use 35×45 mm too, so that preset covers more documents than its label suggests.
Can I make a passport photo for a baby?
You can, but expect to place the crop box yourself. The detector usually misses an infant lying down or held at an angle, so drag and resize the box until the head fills the oval. Photograph the baby on a plain sheet, or tick Replace background and let the cutout deal with it. Most countries drop the neutral-expression and open-eyes rules for infants, though the linked requirements for your document are the ones that count.
How do I change the background to white?
Tick Replace background. The subject is separated from whatever is behind you and placed on the colour your document needs, which the picker has already filled in. Use the colour box or the eyedropper beside it if a visa asks for a particular blue, and a note appears the moment your pick differs from the official shade.
The cutout shaved off some of my hair. Can I fix it?
The result preview has Add back and Erase brushes under it, with a size slider running from 8 to 96 pixels. Paint over the missing hair with Add back and it returns, and Undo and Redo sit next to them. Worth knowing before you start: moving the crop box afterwards throws those edits away and recomputes the cutout, so settle the framing first.
What if the portal caps the file size?
The US preset targets 240 KB and India's digital portal targets 300 KB. For those two the tool searches for the highest JPEG quality that still fits, up to a ceiling of 92. Every other preset has no cap and encodes at 92 flat. A portal with some other limit means running the finished photo through a compressor afterwards.
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