Passport Photo Maker

This Passport Photo Maker turns a portrait you already have into a document-size photo in three steps: choose the size your instructions ask for, enlarge and move the photo until the head sits inside the guides, then save a single JPEG or a 4 × 6 inch print sheet. Everything happens on this page, so you can try a few crops and compare them before deciding which one to keep. The sections below cover how to pick the size, how to take a photo at home that crops well, and how to print or upload the result.

Start with the original image from your camera or phone whenever possible. A screenshot, a thumbnail copied from a message or a photograph saved repeatedly through social apps may have lost detail before it reaches the editor. Look for sharp eyes, recognizable facial detail and enough space above the head and beside the shoulders. If the top of the head is already cut off, moving a crop cannot bring it back.

When taking a new portrait, place the camera near eye level and keep it steady. Stand in front of a plain, light background with comfortable separation from the wall. Avoid a busy room, a window directly behind you or strong shadows across the face. Review the photograph at a larger size before selecting it here. Follow the issuing authority's current guidance on pose, expression, glasses and other appearance details; a composition that works for a school badge may not work for a travel document.

Find the requested dimensions before choosing an output. Besides the widely used 35 × 45 mm, 2 × 2 in and 50 × 70 mm, the menu includes the 33 × 48 mm Chinese passport photo, the Chinese 1-inch (25 × 35 mm) and 2-inch (35 × 49 mm) photos, Türkiye's 50 × 60 mm, Spain's 26 × 32 mm DNI and passport photo, and 3 × 4 cm and 4 × 6 cm prints. Choose by the exact size in your instructions rather than by a country name: two documents can share outer dimensions while applying different rules to the face, background, date of capture or digital file.

Each download is the selected size at 300 dpi, rounded to whole pixels, so 35 × 45 mm becomes 413 × 531 pixels and 33 × 48 mm becomes 390 × 567. The JPEG also carries 300 dpi density information. Read both the physical dimensions and any separate digital-upload requirements. If your form requires another aspect ratio, a particular file size or a dimension not offered here, do not choose the nearest option and assume it is equivalent.

After selecting a portrait, use the preview to see exactly which part of the photograph will remain. Choose the output size first because a square crop and a taller rectangle include different areas. Adjust zoom gradually, then move the image horizontally and vertically. Leave enough room for the head and avoid cropping into features that the application instructions say must remain visible. Keep reviewing the original image if you are unsure whether a detail is missing.

The guides change with the size you choose. Put the top of the head on the top line and keep the chin inside the blue band; for 35 × 45 mm and 2 × 2 in, the eyes should also sit in the yellow band. These ranges follow the usual rules for each size (international 35 × 45 mm photos, US 2 × 2 in, Canadian 50 × 70 mm and Chinese 33 × 48 mm passport photos), but the editor does not detect the face, so compare the result with the measurements in your own instructions. You can hide the guides to judge the photo without overlays, and they are never drawn into the JPEG or the print sheet. If the head only reaches the band with heavy zoom, start from a photo taken closer. Sizes without a published head-height rule show only the center line.

The editor keeps the background you photographed, so it pays to get it right in the photo itself. Stand a little more than an arm's length in front of a plain white or very light wall; a white door, a bedsheet or a large sheet of paper also works. That distance keeps your shadow off the wall. Clear frames, plants and furniture out of the shot, and switch off colored lights that tint the wall.

Light the face evenly from the front: face a window during the day, or place two lamps at about 45 degrees on either side. Skip the camera flash, which flattens the face and reflects in glasses. If you wear glasses, check whether your document allows them: take them off if it does not, and if it does, tilt them slightly down to remove glare. Ask someone to take the picture from one to two meters away with the camera at eye level, while you keep a neutral expression, both eyes open and hair away from the face. Take several shots and pick the sharpest one in the editor.

Use the photo download button when you need one finished image. The editor exports a JPEG of the selected crop, without the preview guides or a watermark. Open that downloaded file before attaching it to a form. Make sure the crop you intended is present, the face is clear and the orientation is correct. It is easy to accidentally upload the original portrait or an older download when several similar filenames are in the same folder.

An application website may check pixel dimensions, file weight, format and image content separately, and some portals ignore the 300 dpi tag entirely. If an upload is refused, read the exact message and compare it with the downloaded file's properties. When a portal asks for a smaller file, use a compressor that lets you preview the result, and look at the face again afterwards to make sure the detail survived.

The sheet download arranges repeated copies of your crop on a 4 × 6 inch canvas, equivalent to 1200 × 1800 pixels at the tagged 300 dpi density. The copies sit edge to edge, and a thin gray line marks where to cut each one. The number of copies is determined by the selected photo dimensions and the room available; it is not a separate quantity setting. Download the sheet rather than taking a screenshot of the preview, which would not preserve the intended output dimensions.

When printing, choose actual size or 100 percent scale and disable automatic fit-to-page behavior. Check the paper selection and preview in your own printing software, because printer defaults can still enlarge or shrink an image. After printing, measure a photo with a ruler before cutting. Cut along the gray lines with a ruler and a craft knife or a paper trimmer, then look over each copy for smudges, visible pixelation or uneven color.

Before submitting, run a short check against the latest instructions from the organization issuing the document: the size, where the head sits, the background, pose and expression, and whether they want a print or a file. Look at the face at a useful viewing size rather than in a small thumbnail. If something is off in the photo itself, such as a shadow across the face or a blurred eye, a new shot will fix it faster than another crop.

Keep a clean original and a clearly named final copy so you can make a different crop if the application asks for one. Reset the editor when you are done; downloaded files stay in your device's download folder. For creative projects rather than documents, a photo collage offers a different kind of layout, and the WebP-to-JPG converter helps when a photo arrives in a format your application does not accept.