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Free Passport Size Photo Maker

Crop your photo to a passport, visa or stamp size, fill the background, limit the file size and print several copies on one sheet.

Start with the photo, not the tool

No cropping tool can rescue a badly lit photo. Ten minutes spent taking a good picture saves you a rejected application later, and an afternoon queuing at a studio.

Stand about an arm’s length from a plain light wall, facing a window so the light falls evenly on your face.
Keep your head straight, your expression neutral and your eyes open and visible.
Ask someone else to take it at eye level. Selfies distort the face and make the nose look larger.
Take several shots. Choose the sharpest, not the first.
Leave some space above your head and below your shoulders, so there is room to crop to different shapes.

Which size does your application want?

The right answer depends on the country and on the exact form. These are the sizes the tool has ready, but read the rules of your own application before you print or upload.

Bangladesh passport: 45 x 55 mm. Visa and e-visa photos: 35 x 45 mm. Some online e-passport forms ask for 25 x 30 mm.
India passport: 35 x 45 mm. OCI and US visa photos: 2 x 2 inch.
UK, Schengen, Australia: 35 x 45 mm.
Canada: 50 x 70 mm.
China: 33 x 48 mm.
Stamp size: 20 x 25 mm.
Anything else: choose Custom size and type the millimetres.

One country can ask for different sizes in different situations. Bangladesh is a good example: the printed passport photo, the visa photo and the online e-passport upload are three different sizes. Always match the size to the specific form in front of you, not to the country in general.

Printed photos and uploaded photos are different jobs

For a printed photo, what matters is the physical size and the quality of the print, which is why the tool saves at 300 DPI. At that resolution a 35 x 45 mm photo is 413 x 531 pixels and a 45 x 55 mm photo is 531 x 650 pixels.

For an online upload, the form usually cares about pixels and file size instead. If it names a maximum in KB, type that number in the file size box and the tool lowers the JPG quality, and the pixel size slightly if it has to, until the file fits. If the form asks for exact pixel dimensions, choose Custom size and calculate millimetres from pixels at 300 DPI, or ask the form which pixel size it wants.

Cropping so the photo gets accepted

Drop the photo in and drag it until your face sits inside the oval guide, with the centre line running down the middle of your face. The guide is a help, not a rule: your form may set exact limits for head size and the space above the head, so compare your preview with its instructions.

The background fill only colours empty edges. If your wall was not plain, the tool cannot fix that, so retake the photo instead.

Printing at home or at a shop

Download the print sheet and print at 100% or actual size. Never choose fit-to-page.
Use photo paper if you can, with a matte or semi-gloss finish.
Cut with a ruler and a sharp blade along the thin grey lines.
Too fiddly? Save the sheet to a USB stick or phone and any photo shop will print it.

On a 4 x 6 inch sheet, the tool fits as many copies as it can. For the 45 x 55 mm size that is four photos. Choosing a larger paper fits more, and you can type a smaller number of copies if you only need two.

Common reasons photos are rejected

Shadows on the face or the wall behind.
Glasses with glare, or a head tilted off-centre.
The wrong size for that particular application.
A background that is not plain.
A file that is too large for the online form. Use the file size box to set a KB limit, and the tool shrinks it for you.

After you have it

Keep the original untouched photo and the final files in one folder, with clear names such as passport-45x55.jpg and visa-35x45.jpg. The next time you need a different size, you can start again from the original instead of cropping a crop.