Make a passport or ID photo
Phone photo in, document photo out. Choose the document, add a picture, and the tool crops it to the official frame, repairs light and color where it can, and spells out what a retake needs.
1. Choose the document
2. Add your photo
No photo yet? Take one now with your phone or computer camera.
A selfie is fine. The photo is taken by itself only when position, shoulders, facing, expression and light are all right; size and framing are set automatically.
Add one photo of your face looking straight at the camera (JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC).
or drop a file here
How to take a photo that passes
- Stand about 1 m in front of a plain light wall, facing a window or soft light.
- A selfie is fine: hold the phone at arm’s length at eye level (both hands keep the shoulders level), face and shoulders square to it. A phone right in front of the face makes the nose and forehead look bigger.
- Look straight at the camera, mouth closed, both eyes open, hair off the eyes and ears.
- No hat, no tinted glasses; keep your shoulders in the picture.
- Use a photo taken in the last 6 months.
Your photo stays on this device. Only the AI model files (about 41 MB, once) are downloaded from this site.
Some things need a new photo
These problems cannot be fixed automatically. A new photo taken like this will most likely pass:
Checks
Your files are processed on your own device and never uploaded.
How to use it
- Start in ‘1. Choose the document’: pick a ‘Country’, then an entry from ‘Document and size’. ‘Show size and rules’ unfolds the measurements, the allowed backgrounds and the rules, with a pointer to the official page.
- In ‘2. Add your photo’ you can press ‘Open the camera’ and let the guided camera shoot, or add a file you already have: JPG, PNG, WebP or HEIC.
- Next come the ‘Checks’. Problems are listed first, then what was fixed for you, and the passed checks collapse into one line you can open. If a retake box appears, follow its advice with ‘Retake with the camera’ or ‘Add another photo’.
- Applying for a passport, ID card or license? Under ‘Face, hair and clothes’ choose ‘No touch-ups’. Keep makeup, a suit and hair color for résumé shots and other places that accept them.
- ‘Fine-tune’ moves and resizes the head inside the allowed range, switches the background and changes ‘Brightness’; ‘Reset adjustments’ undoes it all.
- Press ‘Save file’ when a form wants an upload. For paper prints, pick a sheet size and press ‘Save print sheet’: one JPG with the photo repeated and cut lines.
What it does
29 sizes, 13 countries
South Korea, the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, Japan, China, India, Germany, France, Spain, Italy, Brazil and Mexico, plus the Schengen visa and a set of common sizes. Nineteen of the 29 entries are marked ‘Official requirement’; the rest are customary sizes to confirm with whoever asks for the photo. Canada and Portugal are listed too, with a note on why a home-made photo does not work there.
Head height, counted the right way
Korea, the UK, Australia and the Schengen visa measure up to the crown of the skull, so hair does not count; the US, Japan, China and India measure up to the top of the hair. The card gives the allowed range in millimeters and, where a country also sets a gap above the head or the eye height, those too. On the preview, a green band marks the allowed head height and dashed red lines mark your crown and chin.
Checks that say what to do
Each photo is checked for one person, facing the camera, a level head, open eyes, a closed mouth, even light, a whole head and square shoulders, glasses without glare, eyebrows and ears where the document wants them, and enough pixels for the size. A head tilt of up to 15 degrees is straightened, and brightness, color cast, backlight, one-sided shadow and red eyes are corrected. What cannot be fixed, like bangs hiding the eyebrows, closed eyes or a blurry shot, comes with a one-line instruction for the retake.
A camera that waits for the right moment
‘Open the camera’ puts the document's frame around your face and watches your framing, shoulders, gaze, expression and the light five times a second. When all of it is right, it counts 3-2-1 with beeps and takes the shot; spoken guidance is available too. The saved picture is not mirrored, and a phone held within about 30 cm of your face is refused, because the nose and forehead start to look bigger.
Pixel and file limits met for you
With no online rule, the picture comes out as a JPG at its printed size at 300 dpi: 413 × 531 px for 35 × 45 mm. Where a form sets a pixel size, the tool saves exactly that and keeps the file under the maximum, for instance on the US visa form (1200 × 1200 px, 240 KB at most) or the India e-Visa (1000 × 1000 px, 300 KB at most). To fit a cap it searches for the highest JPG quality that stays under it.
Print sheets with cut lines
Choose ‘89×127 mm’, ‘10×15 cm’, ‘4×6 in’ or A4 and the tool packs in as many copies as fit, turning the sheet whichever way holds more. A 4×6 in sheet takes eight 35 × 45 mm photos or two 2 × 2 in ones, and A4 takes thirty-two of the 35 × 45 mm size. Thin gray lines mark the cuts, and the JPG carries a 300 dpi tag so print programs use the real size.
Good to know
A white wall, a window in front of you and a phone at eye level beat any editing. Stand about a meter from a plain light wall, face the soft light, and keep your head and shoulders in the frame with some room above your hair. Look straight ahead, mouth closed, hair off your eyes and ears, and use a picture from the last six months. A selfie works if the phone is an arm's length away and both hands keep your shoulders level.
Rules differ more than sizes do. The UK wants light gray or cream behind you, France refuses white, and Korea even treats a swapped background as an edit. Some places won't accept a photo you make yourself: since May 1, 2025, Germany has taken digital passport and ID photos only from certified studios and the office's photo terminal, France wants an approved booth or a professional photographer, Canada a commercial one, and in Brazil, Mexico and Portugal you are photographed at the office or counter. The tool says so when you pick these. In the end, the issuing office decides.
Everything runs in your browser. The face and body models download once, roughly 41 MB in all, and the clothes template (about 17 MB) is only fetched when you use the suit options. The photo is never uploaded, and the camera asks for permission first. Files are named after your photo plus the document, like selfie-uk-passport.jpg, and a sheet adds -print-4x6. The checks catch what a picture shows; they cannot promise an office will accept it.
Questions and answers
How many pixels should a passport photo be?
A 35 × 45 mm photo comes out at 413 × 531 px, its printed size at 300 dpi. A US passport or visa photo is saved at 1200 × 1200 px, and the card for each online form shows its own size and file limit.
Are glasses allowed in an ID photo?
It depends on the document. The rule list under ‘Show size and rules’ says no glasses for Australian passports, US passports and US visas, and clear lenses without glare for the UK, Japan, China and the Schengen visa. The checks flag tinted lenses and glare.
What background color should I use?
Whatever the document allows: the ‘Background’ row under ‘Fine-tune’ offers only those colors, plus ‘Keep original’. Examples are light gray or cream for the UK, light blue or light gray for France, and white or off-white for the US. A wall that is already plain, white and even is kept and only cleaned up when the document allows white; otherwise it is replaced.
How do I print the sheet at the real size?
Choose a sheet, press ‘Save print sheet’ and print the JPG with scaling off: 100%, no fit-to-page. Photo counters can print the same file on 4×6 in paper. Cut along the thin gray lines.
Is a selfie good enough?
Usually, if the phone is at eye level and an arm's length away; the guided camera judges the rest live. A phone right up at your face is refused, since the nose and forehead look bigger. A few offices only accept photos from a studio or a booth, and a note under the size card says so when that applies.
Does my photo leave my device?
No. Finding the face, running the checks, changing the background and saving all happen in your browser. Only the AI model files come from this site, and only once.