Crop any photo to official passport, visa and ID sizes — millimetre-accurate, in your browser, nothing uploaded.
Drop a photo here, or click to choose
A head-and-shoulders phone photo is fine — PNG, JPEG, WebP, HEIC/HEIF all work
This authority publishes no DPI requirement — 300 DPI is our suggestion, following normal print practice, not an official rule.
Applying for a passport, a visa, a driving licence or a student card almost always means handing over a photo cut to an exact size — 2 × 2 inches in the United States, 35 × 45 mm in the UK, France and Japan, 50 × 70 mm in Canada, 33 × 48 mm for a Chinese passport. A booth or a studio charges for that and costs you a trip across town, when the photo already on your phone is usually good enough. What it is missing is the millimetre-accurate size and a plain background. This passport photo maker supplies both, entirely inside your browser. Choose the country and document you are applying for, drag the crop box over your face — it is locked to that specification's shape — and download a file cut to the exact millimetre dimensions at 300 or 600 DPI, ready to print or upload. Every size in the list is taken from the issuing authority's own published guidance, and each preset links straight back to that page so you can check it yourself; where an authority publishes no head-size rule, the tool says so instead of inventing a number. Your photo never leaves your device, which matters more here than on any other tool on this site: a passport photo is a picture of your face destined for an identity document, so there is no upload, no server, no account and no watermark. One honest limit: the background-colour swap only works when your original background is already a single flat colour, because it replaces colours by distance rather than by recognising a person. A bookshelf, a curtain or a graduated studio backdrop would chew up hair edges — when the tool detects one, it disables the feature and tells you, rather than handing you a mangled photo that gets rejected at the counter.
Choose the country and document — US passport, UK passport, French ID card, Japanese passport, Chinese exit-entry documents, and more. The panel underneath shows the print size in millimetres, the pixel size at your chosen DPI, the required background colour, the head-height rule and a link to the official source page.
Drop in a phone photo and drag the crop box; it is locked to the specification's aspect ratio, so it cannot come out the wrong shape. Rotate or mirror a sideways selfie, use the centre line to keep your head straight, and where the authority publishes an eye-height rule, line your eyes up inside the marked band.
The tool tests whether your background is a single flat colour. If it is, you can recolour it to white, off-white, light grey or light blue; if it is not, it says so and leaves the photo alone. Export as JPG or PNG at the exact pixel size, then print or upload it.
Every preset — dimensions, DPI, background colour, head-height rule — comes from the issuing authority's own published requirements, and each one links to that page. Where no official head-size figure exists, the tool says so instead of borrowing a number from a photo shop's website.
Sizes are stored in millimetres and converted to pixels at the DPI you choose, so a US 2 × 2 inch photo comes out at exactly 600 × 600 px at 300 DPI rather than 602 — the kind of rounding slip that gets an application bounced.
The crop box is locked to the specification's ratio and the photo can be rotated or mirrored, so a sideways phone selfie ends up as a correctly proportioned, upright portrait instead of a stretched one.
A centre line helps you keep your head straight and square to the camera, and for specifications that publish an eye-height rule a marked band shows the range your eyes must fall in. No guide is drawn where the authority publishes no figure.
Recolour a plain wall to the required background — but only after the tool has verified your background really is one flat colour. On anything else it refuses, tells you why and points you at a proper background remover, rather than producing chewed-up hair edges.
Decoding, cropping, recolouring and encoding all run in your browser. A photo of your face never touches a server — no account, no watermark and no limit on how many photos you make.
Most consulates and passport offices specify the print size to the millimetre and reject anything off-size. Pick the destination, crop once and upload or print a file that matches the published requirement exactly.
Licence renewals, residence permits and national ID cards usually reuse the passport photo format. Make one correctly sized file and reuse it across the whole stack of paperwork.
Résumés, school enrolment forms and staff passes often want a small ID-style portrait rather than a full passport photo. Choose the matching preset and you avoid the usual awkward automatic crop.
A single well-lit shot can serve applications in different countries at different sizes. Reload the same photo, switch the specification, re-crop and download again — no need to sit for a new one.
No. Decoding, cropping, background recolouring and encoding all run in your browser — the file is read from disk, processed locally and handed straight back to you. Nothing is sent to a server and nothing is stored. That matters more here than for an ordinary image tool: a passport photo is a picture of your face attached to an identity document, so it is the most privacy-sensitive image most people ever upload anywhere.
The tool guarantees the part it can guarantee: the print size, the aspect ratio, the pixel count and the framing guides where an official figure exists. Acceptance depends on much more than that — your expression, glasses, head coverings, even lighting, shadow-free background, how recent the photo is, and rules that differ per country. Some authorities also refuse photos that have been edited at all, or require a professional photographer. One more thing worth knowing: the sizes here are the printed-photo specifications. Several authorities run a completely separate set of rules for online submission — pixels and file size instead of millimetres — and the UK digital route explicitly tells you not to crop the photo yourself, because the service does it for you. For those routes this tool's cropping is the wrong step, not a shortcut. Open the source link next to your chosen specification and read the full requirements before you submit.
No, and this is deliberate. The tool replaces colours that sit close to your existing background colour; it has no idea where the person ends and the wall begins. That works beautifully on a plain wall or a studio backdrop and fails badly on a bookshelf, a curtain or a graduated backdrop, where it would eat into hair edges and leave coloured blotches. Rather than ship a model that runs in your browser and still gets edges wrong, we check first and decline honestly.
Because the tool sampled the border of your crop and found the background is not a single flat colour — either it contains several colours, or it drifts smoothly from light to dark, both of which a colour-distance swap handles badly. Two things usually fix it: re-crop tighter against a plain part of the wall, or run the photo through a dedicated background-removal tool first, place it on the colour you need, then come back here for the exact size.
Every specification is taken from the issuing authority's own published guidance — passport offices, foreign ministries and visa services — and each preset carries a link to the page it came from. Requirements do change, and a change on a government website will not automatically show up here, so treat the link as the authority and this tool as the ruler. If you spot a mismatch, follow the official page. One finding worth passing on: there is no single “Schengen photo size”. The EU only mandates a width of 35–40 mm and a plain light background — the 45 mm height and the head-size rules are added by each member state, and they disagree. France asks for a 32–36 mm head in a 35 × 45 mm frame; the Netherlands asks for 26–30 mm in the same frame. That is why this list is organised by country rather than by visa zone.
Worth knowing first: most authorities publish no DPI requirement at all. 300 DPI is the print trade's normal minimum rather than a universal legal one, which is why it is the default here. The exceptions we found do state a figure — a scanned US visa photo and Chinese exit-entry documents want 300, the Chinese ID card 350, the Netherlands at least 400 — so check your source link if it matters. Choose 600 DPI when a print shop asks for more or your source photo has pixels to spare. The physical millimetre size is identical either way; 600 DPI simply doubles the pixels along each edge.
Browsers cannot write a DPI value into an image exported from a canvas, so the file carries its pixel count and nothing else. This does not affect online applications at all, since those check pixels. For printing, set the print size explicitly to the millimetre or inch figure shown next to the result — or just hand the pixel dimensions and the intended size to the print shop — and you will get exactly the right physical dimensions.
Free, no sign-up, no watermark and nothing uploaded. Pick a specification, drop in a phone photo and download a correctly sized file in seconds.