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Passport Photo Maker
Crop a photo to the exact millimetre and pixel size a passport form asks for, with the head placed where the rules expect it.
It stays in this tab. Nothing is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere.
Guide: head 29–34 mm of the 45 mm frame, crown about 3 mm from the top edge.
Load a photo to run the check.
Sampled from the top and upper sides of the crop, where the background shows. A rough warning, not an approval.
Choose a photo to begin.
A passport photo is a specification before it is a picture. The frame is a fixed size in millimetres, the head has to fill most of it within a narrow band, the background has to be plain and light, and the file has to be sharp enough to print at 300 dpi. Most rejections at a counter are mechanical — head too small in the frame, background not plain, print squeezed out of shape — rather than anything about the face itself.
This tool handles the mechanical part. You choose the document, and the frame takes on its exact proportions and pixel count. Drag the photo to sit where it should, zoom, rotate if the shot came out sideways, and line the head up against the guide. The export is a JPEG at the preset pixel size, redrawn on a canvas so no camera metadata travels with it. The photo is never uploaded.
It does not guarantee acceptance. The guide shows where a head of the usual height belongs, and the background check measures brightness and evenness in the top corners and upper sides of the crop — neither of those is an approval, and a caseworker looks at things no browser can measure: expression, shadows, glasses, head coverings, the age of the photo.
How to use it
- Choose the document you are applying for. The presets are UK/EU passport and UK driving licence at 35 × 45 mm (413 × 531 px at 300 dpi), and US passport and visa at 2 × 2 in (600 × 600 px).
- Open a photo taken against a plain wall, in even light, facing the camera. A phone photo is fine if it is sharp.
- Drag inside the frame to slide the photo, and use the zoom slider to make the head larger or smaller. Arrow keys nudge it when the frame has focus.
- Line the crown of the head up with the upper band and the chin with the lower one. For the 45 mm frame that band is 29–34 mm tall, which is the tolerance the UK rules give.
- Read the background check. A dark or patterned background gets a warning — take the photo again somewhere plainer rather than fighting it here.
- Press Download JPEG. The file is rendered at the preset pixel size, not the size of the preview on screen.
Privacy
The photo is read with the browser's file API, drawn on a canvas and encoded in this tab. There is no upload, no account and no stored copy — the image exists in memory only while the page is open. The exported JPEG is redrawn from pixels, so EXIF, GPS and camera details are dropped along the way. That matters for a passport photo more than most files, because a phone original often carries the exact place it was taken.
Questions
Will this make sure my photo is accepted?
No, and no cropping tool can. It puts the picture in the right frame at the right pixel size and shows you where the head should sit, which removes the two most common mechanical reasons for rejection. It cannot judge your expression, whether your glasses catch the light, whether there is a shadow behind your ear, whether a head covering is allowed for your case, or whether the photo is recent and genuinely you. The background check measures a few background patches only and is a rough warning, not an approval.
What size is a UK passport photo?
35 mm wide by 45 mm high, with the head measured chin to crown between 29 mm and 34 mm. At 300 dots per inch that is 413 by 531 pixels. UK driving licence photos use the same 35 by 45 mm frame, so the two presets produce identical pixel dimensions.
What size is a US passport photo?
2 by 2 inches, which at 300 dpi is 600 by 600 pixels. The head should be between 1 inch and 1 3/8 inches from chin to crown, and the eyes should sit between 1 1/8 and 1 3/8 inches from the bottom of the photo.
Why does the file not print at 35 by 45 mm on its own?
Browsers write JPEGs without a print resolution tag, so the pixel count is right but a printer may assume 72 dpi and print it far too large. Either set the print size explicitly to 35 by 45 mm, or let the print shop place it. The pixel dimensions are exact; the physical size is a decision the printer makes.
Is the photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The image is decoded, cropped and encoded in this tab. There is no upload, no account and no copy kept anywhere but your own machine, and the exported JPEG carries no EXIF or GPS data because it is redrawn onto a canvas before encoding.