Passport Size Photo Maker

In much of the world, "passport size photo" means a portrait 35 mm wide and 45 mm tall. India's passport instructions describe exactly that box, 4.5 cm by 3.5 cm, and the UK, the Schengen countries and many others use the same print size. Schools, banks, employers and exam boards borrow it for their own forms, which is why so many applications simply ask for "two passport size photographs" without giving numbers.

The United States and a few other countries are the exception: their passport photo is a 2 × 2 inch square. Canada uses a larger 50 × 70 mm print. If a form names a country or a document, choose that document in the tool; if it only says passport size, 35 × 45 mm is the safe reading.

Printed photos are measured in millimeters or inches, digital ones in pixels, and the link between them is the resolution. At 300 dots per inch, the standard for photo prints, one inch is 300 pixels, so a 35 × 45 mm photo becomes 413 × 531 pixels and a 2 × 2 inch photo becomes 600 × 600. The table above shows the same arithmetic for common inch sizes, including the 4 × 6 inch print used for photo sheets.

You can change the resolution under File size & DPI if a form asks for something else, and the pixel size follows. The printed size stays 35 × 45 mm either way, provided the printer is set to actual size rather than fit to page.

The tool is built around one task: turning an ordinary portrait into a photo that an office will accept. It finds the face, places it at the height the chosen document requires and crops the rest. The options below cover the cases that come up most often; all of them live in the tool above, and the defaults on this page are set for a 35 × 45 mm photo on an A4 sheet.

Up to 20 photos can be processed in one batch, which helps when a family needs photos for several applications at once. Each person's photo gets its own file and its own print sheet, and every file is deleted from the server 30 minutes after it is ready.

A tool can fix the size and the crop; the photo itself has to be right. Ask someone else to take it, from a little distance, with your face straight to the camera and evenly lit from the front. Keep a natural, closed-mouth expression, remove glasses if there is glare, and make sure hair does not cover your eyes. India's instructions, like most others, also ask for a plain background, no shadows and both edges of the face visible.

Official passport offices often have stricter rules than a school form, including how recent the photo must be and how it must be printed. For India, see Indian passport photo size; for babies, the baby passport photo page; and for the full list of documents, the Passport Photo Maker. To cut a photo to a free shape instead, use Crop Image.