Passport Photo Maker

It depends on the document, and the number is in millimetres rather than pixels. India, the UK, Australia, Japan and the Schengen countries use 35 × 45 mm. The US, and Indian OCI and visa applications, use 51 × 51 mm — two inches square. Canada uses 50 × 70 mm. Choosing the standard from the list applies the right shape automatically.

Because a passport photo is defined by its printed size, not its pixel count, and pixels only become a physical size once you fix a print resolution. At 300 DPI a 35 × 45 mm photo is 413 × 531 pixels; at 600 DPI it is 827 × 1063. Use 300 for online submission and most labs, 600 if the lab asks for it.

It gets the geometry right — the physical size, the aspect ratio and the print resolution, which is where most rejections come from. It cannot judge the rest: a plain background, even lighting with no shadows, a neutral expression, both ears visible, no glare on glasses, and a photo taken recently. Those are on you, and they are checked.

Eight 35 × 45 mm photos fit a 4 × 6 inch print, which costs the same at a lab as printing one. Print at 100% rather than "fit to page" — rescaling on the way to the printer is the usual reason a correctly sized photo comes out wrong, and the hairlines are there to cut along.

Not yet — it fills the area outside your crop with the specification's background colour, but it does not cut the subject out of a busy scene. Photograph yourself against a plain light wall and there is nothing to remove.