Passport photo maker
Make a passport or ID photo free in your browser, with no upload. Pick the country, mark the top of the head and the bottom of the chin, and the photo is sized to the millimeter and saved at a real 300 DPI.
Mark the top of the head and the bottom of the chin. Every specification measures the head between those two lines, and the fit does the rest.
In detail
Passport photo maker sizes a photo to what an issuing authority actually measures. The frame comes from the specification and is never dragged; what you set is the head, by marking the crown and the chin, and the fit then scales and places the photo so the head height lands inside the permitted range.
The readout reports that height in millimeters against the published minimum and maximum, so a photo is checked before it is printed rather than at a counter. Output is JPEG or PNG at 300 or 600 DPI, with the resolution written into the file, and optionally as a print sheet with cut guides. Figures for the United States, the Schengen area, the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia and China are taken from the issuing authority; the two Indian sizes follow consular guidance and the page says so.
Passport photo maker at a glance
- Input
- JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, HEIC, BMP, TIFF and other image formats
- Output
- JPEG or PNG at 300 or 600 DPI, as one photo or a print sheet
- What it does
- Eight country and document sizes
- Head height measured in millimeters
- A fit that lands inside the permitted range
- A real 300 or 600 DPI in the file
- Print sheets with cut guides
- Who it is for
- Anyone applying for a passport, a visa or an ID card who would rather not pay a booth.
- Limits
- The head is marked by hand; nothing is detected for you.
- Backgrounds are not replaced, only flattened onto white.
- Eight specifications, two of which follow consular guidance rather than a published standard.
- Privacy
- Runs entirely in your browser: the photo is never uploaded, and nothing is kept after you close the tab.
How to make a passport photo
- Add a photo Drop one photo onto the page or paste it from the clipboard. A plain head-and-shoulders picture against an even wall works best, because no specification allows a background that has been edited around the head.
- Pick the country and document Choose from the list. Both the frame and the permitted head height change: a US photo is 2 by 2 inches with a head of 25 to 35 mm, while a UK one is 35 by 45 mm with a head of 29 to 34 mm.
- Mark the head Drag the two lines to the top of the head and the bottom of the chin. This is the measurement every authority checks, and it is the one thing a face detector cannot do for you — the crown sits under the hair and is not a facial landmark.
- Press Fit The photo is scaled and positioned so the head lands in the middle of the permitted range, with the larger gap below the chin. The readout gives the head height in millimeters and says whether it passes.
- Download the photo or a print sheet Save one photo, or lay several on a 4 by 6, 5 by 7, A4 or Letter sheet with cut guides. Both carry a real 300 or 600 DPI, so a print shop reproduces them at the right physical size.
Passport photo maker: common questions
Why do I have to mark the head myself?
Because the crown is not a facial landmark. Every specification measures from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head, and face detection returns a box or a set of points that stop at the eyebrows — the crown is the top of the skull under the hair. A detector could place the chin and would have to guess the crown, and a guess shown as a measurement is worse here than no measurement at all.
Can one photo work for more than one country?
Often not, and the frame is not the reason. Canada allows a head of 31 to 36 mm in a 70 mm photo, which is 44 to 51 percent of the height; the Schengen area allows 32 to 36 mm in 45 mm, which is 71 to 80 percent. Those ranges do not overlap, so no crop of one image satisfies both. Even two countries that share the 35 by 45 mm frame can disagree: a head at the Schengen maximum is above the UK maximum.
Will the printed photo be the right physical size?
Yes, provided the print is not scaled. The file carries a real resolution — 300 or 600 dots per inch, written into the JPEG or PNG itself — which is what tells a print shop how large to lay it out. A file with no resolution is printed at whatever the shop's software assumes, which is usually 72 DPI and would make a 2 inch photo over 8 inches wide.
Why does the 4 by 6 sheet say it needs borderless printing?
Because six US photos fit it exactly and no closer. A 4 by 6 inch sheet at 300 DPI is 1200 by 1800 pixels and a 2 by 2 photo is 600 by 600, so six fill it with nothing left over for a margin. On a printer that leaves one, the driver shrinks the whole sheet to fit and every photo on it comes out undersized. The 5 by 7, A4 and Letter sheets leave a margin and print correctly on any printer.
Does it retouch the background?
No. It can flatten a transparent image onto white, which only fills pixels that were already empty. It will not replace or clean up a real background, because authorities reject photos whose background has been edited around the head — the US State Department lists a cropped-out background as a reason for refusal.