Passport photo maker — crop to any country size
Crop a passport photo to US 2×2 in, UK/EU 35×45 mm, Schengen, India or China sizes at 300 DPI, with head-height guides and a printable 4×6 sheet.
- Runs in your browser
- Files are never uploaded
- Free, no account
Taking the source photo
The crop is the easy part; the photograph is what gets applications rejected. Five minutes of care here saves a resubmission:
- Background. A plain, light, evenly lit wall. Stand a metre or so away from it so you do not cast a shadow onto it.
- Light. Face a window in daylight, or use two lamps either side. Overhead light alone puts shadows in your eye sockets and under your nose.
- Camera height. Level with your eyes, about a metre away. A phone held low distorts the face and is a common rejection reason.
- Expression. Neutral, mouth closed, both eyes open and visible, looking straight at the lens.
- Glasses. The UK, US and Schengen authorities all now prefer them removed. If you must wear them, no glare and no frame across the eyes.
- Head coverings. Permitted for religious or medical reasons, provided the full face from the bottom of the chin to the top of the forehead is visible.
- No filters. Beauty modes, portrait-blur backgrounds and smoothing all count as manipulation.
Official sizes built in
| Document | Photo size | Head height (crown to chin) |
|---|---|---|
| US passport, visa, green card | 2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm) | 25–35 mm (1–1⅜ in) |
| UK passport & driving licence | 35 × 45 mm | 29–34 mm |
| Schengen visa / EU ID | 35 × 45 mm | 32–36 mm |
| India passport | 51 × 51 mm | 25–35 mm |
| China passport & visa | 33 × 48 mm | 28–33 mm |
| Canada passport | 50 × 70 mm | 31–36 mm |
| Australia / New Zealand | 35 × 45 mm | 32–36 mm |
| Japan passport | 35 × 45 mm | 32–36 mm |
Pick your document and the crop frame changes shape immediately. The head-height figure below the canvas is computed from where you put the two dashed guides, converted into millimetres using the physical size of the finished photo — so the check the tool performs is the same measurement the passport office makes with a ruler.
Getting the head height right
- Drag the top guide onto the crown of the head — the top of the hair, not the forehead.
- Drag the bottom guide onto the underside of the chin.
- Read the measured height. If it is outside the range, zoom in (head too small) or out (head too large) and re-check; the guides stay where you put them, so only the face moves.
- Drag the photo itself to centre the face left-to-right and to set the amount of space above the head.
DPI, pixels and printing
A 35 × 45 mm photo at 300 DPI is 413 × 531 pixels; a US 2 × 2 in photo is 600 × 600. The tool computes the exact pixel size for your chosen combination, renders at that size, and writes the DPI value into the JPEG header so print software lays it out correctly instead of assuming 72 DPI. If your source photo has fewer pixels than the target needs, you get a warning — enlarging cannot add detail, and a soft print is another common rejection.
The 6 × 4 inch sheet tiles as many copies as fit, with thin cut guides between them. Print it at 100% — turn off “fit to page”, “scale to fit” and any borderless option — or upload the sheet to any photo print service as a standard 6 × 4 print. That is typically six copies for 35 × 45 mm and six for 2 × 2 in, for the price of one print.
About the background whitener
There is no AI background removal here, and the reason is the same one that runs through this whole site: a segmentation model means either a multi-megabyte download or sending your face to a server. What we offer instead is explainable — an edge flood fill that starts at the border of the crop and spreads inwards over pixels close in colour to the wall, replacing them with white. Raise the tolerance until the wall goes clean; lower it the moment hair or shoulders start to disappear. Because the fill only spreads from the outside in, it can never punch a hole in the middle of your face. On a busy or unevenly lit background it will not work well, and no slider setting will save it — reshoot against a plain wall instead.
Nothing about this photo leaves your device
This is the page where that promise matters most. A passport photo is a biometric portrait, often of a child, and the usual free tools upload it to a server, watermark the preview and charge to remove the watermark. Here the decode, the crop, the guides, the flood fill, the encode and the print sheet are all canvas and WebAssembly operations inside this tab. Turn off your network connection before you start if you would like to verify that.
Related tools
Change Image DPI if a portal wants a different resolution, compress to 100 KB when an online application caps the file size, and Crop Image for ordinary, non-document crops.
Questions
Do you remove the background automatically?
No — that needs an AI segmentation model we will not download or call out to. There is a manual option instead: an edge flood fill that turns an already-plain wall white, with a tolerance slider so you can stop before it eats hair or shoulders. Photographing yourself against a plain, evenly lit wall remains the reliable route.
How do I get the head height right?
Drag the two dashed guides onto the crown of the head and the bottom of the chin, then zoom until the measured figure sits inside the range shown for your document. The tool converts the guides into millimetres using the physical photo size, so the check is the same one the passport office applies.
What DPI should I use?
300 DPI is the standard for a printed passport photo and the value we write into the JPEG header. Use 600 only if a photo lab asks for it, and 200 only when an online portal caps the file size so hard that 300 will not fit.
How do I print the photos at the right size?
Download the 6 × 4 inch sheet and print it at 100% — turn off “fit to page”, “shrink to printable area” and any border option, then cut along the light guides. Any 6 × 4 photo print service will also accept the file as-is.
Is my face uploaded to a server?
No. This is the tool where that matters most: the crop, the guides and the sheet layout are all canvas operations in your browser. Biometric photos of you and your children never leave the device.