Passport Photo Maker

How to use

1. 1Pick a photo specification: US 2x2 inch, UK or EU 35x45 mm, a visa size, or Custom to enter your own width and height in mm or inches.
2. 2Drop in a front-facing portrait, then drag to position the face and use the zoom slider to fill the frame, keeping the head between the dashed guide lines.
3. 3Choose a print resolution (300 DPI for standard prints, 600 for higher quality) and a background fill if you want a plain backdrop behind the photo.
4. 4Click Make single photo for one correctly sized image, or enable the print sheet and click Make print sheet to tile several copies with cut guides.
5. 5Download the photo or sheet. Everything is cropped in your browser and nothing is uploaded. Check the issuing office's rules before you submit.

About this tool

Passport Photo Maker turns an ordinary portrait into a correctly sized passport, visa, or ID photo and, just as usefully, lays out a print sheet so a single print at a pharmacy kiosk or home printer gives you several photos to cut out. The hard part of a passport photo is rarely taking it; it is getting the exact printed dimensions and the head position right, and that is what this tool handles. You start by choosing a specification. The presets cover the sizes people search for most: the US 2 by 2 inch square used for passports, visas, and green cards; the 35 by 45 millimetre size used by the UK, the Schengen area, Australia, and many EU passports; the 51 by 51 millimetre Indian passport size; the 50 by 70 millimetre Canadian passport size; and the 33 by 48 millimetre Chinese visa size. A custom mode lets you type any width and height in millimetres or inches for a size that is not listed. Each preset fixes the crop frame to the right aspect ratio and shows a head-height guide band, a pair of dashed lines marking where the crown and chin should typically sit, because most authorities specify the face as a fraction of the photo height rather than a fixed pixel count. You then drop in a photo and position the face by dragging to pan and using the zoom slider to fill the frame, with a centre line to help you keep the head straight. When the framing looks right you render. The single-photo button produces one image at the exact printed size and your chosen resolution, either 300 DPI for standard prints or 600 DPI for higher quality, so a 35 by 45 millimetre photo at 300 DPI comes out as the correct 413 by 531 pixels rather than a guess. The print-sheet button is what saves money: it tiles as many copies of the photo as will fit onto a standard sheet, 4 by 6 inch or 5 by 7 inch photo paper, A4, or US Letter, automatically rotating the photos if that fits more per page, and it draws a thin cut guide around each one so you can trim them cleanly. The tool tells you in advance how many photos fit on the sheet you picked. A background fill option paints a plain white, off-white, light grey, or light blue backdrop behind the photo and in the gaps between tiled photos, which matters because most passports require a plain light background; note that this fills behind the image and the sheet gaps and does not erase or replace the background already in your photo, so shoot against a plain wall for the cleanest result. Output is JPG, which is the format print labs expect and which keeps file sizes small, or lossless PNG, and a quality slider controls JPG compression. A few practical notes improve your odds of acceptance: use a sharp, front-facing photo with even lighting and no shadow on the face or the wall behind, keep a neutral expression with both eyes open, and remove glasses if the authority asks for it. Sizes in this tool match each authority's published photo dimensions, but whether a printed photo is accepted is always the decision of the issuing passport, visa, or ID office, so check the current rules for expression, head coverings, and background before you submit. Everything runs locally: your photo is loaded into the browser, cropped and tiled on a local canvas, and downloaded directly. The image is never uploaded, stored, or sent anywhere.

Free to use. Works in your browser. No signup, no login.