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Passport and visa photo specifications look simple on paper — a plain background, a certain size, a neutral expression — but they're actually one of the most common reasons an application gets sent back for correction. The exact millimetre dimensions, head-position guidelines and background requirements differ by country, and a photo booth or home-printed photo that looks fine to the naked eye can still fail an official measurement check. This tool works entirely in your browser: your photo is never uploaded anywhere, it's cropped and resized locally using your device's own processing.
Start with a photo taken against a plain, evenly lit background — a blank wall works well, and natural daylight from a window avoids the harsh shadows a flash can create. Face the camera directly with a neutral expression and your ears visible if your country's rules require it, and remove glasses if reflections are likely, since dark lenses or glare are near-universal rejection reasons for passport photos.
Once you upload a photo, drag it inside the frame to centre your face within the oval guide, which approximates where most countries expect the head and shoulders to sit within the frame, and use the zoom slider to adjust how much of the photo is included. The oval is a visual guide only, not a hard requirement baked into the output — the final exported image is a plain rectangle sized to your selected country's exact millimetre dimensions, since that's what official photo specifications actually check.
Sizes genuinely vary: most Schengen and many other countries use 35×45mm, the United States commonly asks for a 2×2 inch (51×51mm) square photo for both passports and visas, India typically requires 3.5×4.5cm, and China's visa photos are commonly sized differently again at 40×60mm. Always double check the specific requirement on your destination's or issuing authority's current guidance, since even these common sizes are occasionally revised.
This tool handles cropping and resizing to the correct dimensions, but it can't fix bad lighting, remove a background that isn't plain, or adjust for glasses glare after the fact — those need to be right in the original photo. If your background isn't plain, retake the photo against a blank wall rather than trying to crop around the problem, since most visa and passport processing explicitly checks for a uniform background.
Once your document photo is sorted, run through the Visa Checklist Generator or Travel Document Checklist Generator to make sure the photo isn't the only document you still need to prepare.
A closing tip: take the source photo a little wider than you think you need. It's always possible to zoom in and crop tighter within this tool, but a photo taken too close up leaves no room to adjust framing if your first crop doesn't quite meet the guide oval's positioning.
No. The crop, zoom and resize all happen locally in your browser using the HTML canvas element. Your photo file never leaves your device.
It ensures the correct pixel dimensions and aspect ratio for your chosen size, but acceptance also depends on lighting, background, expression and head position, which are on you to get right in the original photo.
Yes, though for the exact physical millimetre size you'll need a printer or photo print service capable of printing to precise dimensions rather than a standard photo paper size.
Any common image format your browser can display, including JPEG, PNG and HEIC on supporting devices. The downloaded result is exported as a JPEG.