Processed entirely on your device — nothing is uploaded
How to use the passport photo maker
- 1Drop in a straight-on photo taken against a plain, light background.
- 2Pick the size: 2 × 2 inch (Indian passport, US visa), 3.5 × 4.5 cm (exam forms, UK/Schengen), PAN card, or custom millimetres.
- 3Drag and zoom until the head fills the space between the dashed crown and chin guides.
- 4Download the JPG — exact pixels at 300 DPI, under your KB cap if you set one — or the 4×6 print sheet.
What the specifications actually require
Photo specifications sound fussy but reduce to four checks: the physical size (2 × 2 inches for the Indian passport and US visa; 35 × 45 mm for most exam forms, the UK and Schengen), the head's share of the frame (roughly 60–75% of the height, crown to chin), a plain light background, and a recent, straight-on, neutral-expression photo. The dashed guides in the tool encode the head rule — fit the face between the lines and the proportions take care of themselves.
Digital uploads add two more checks that trip people constantly: pixel dimensions and DPI. A 2 × 2 inch photo at the standard 300 DPI is 600 × 600 pixels, and 35 × 45 mm is 413 × 531 — this tool outputs exactly those numbers and writes 300 DPI into the file's metadata, because portals verify both even though DPI is just a label on the same pixels.
The background does the silent rejecting: specifications ask for plain white or off-white, and a busy or shadowed backdrop fails review even when everything else is right. If your photo's background is not plain, run it through the Background Remover on this site first — the cut-out lands on white — and then crop it here.
One photo, three destinations
The same portrait serves three different pipelines, and the tool covers each. For online applications, download the single JPG — at exam-portal sizes with the KB cap set, since recruitment portals routinely cap photo uploads at 20–50 KB alongside the pixel spec. The cap uses the same quality search as the site's compressor, so it lands just under the limit at the best quality that fits.
For physical forms, the 4×6 print sheet is the economical route: it tiles as many copies as fit on a standard 6 × 4 inch photo print — eight of the 35 × 45 mm size, four of the 2 × 2 — with light cut lines between them. One ₹15 print at any photo shop yields a wallet of regulation photos, versus paying studio rates per set.
And for the signature that almost always rides along with the photo on the same form, the Signature Maker and the compress-to-KB pages linked below complete the set — photo, signature, and both under their caps, all without any document leaving your device.
Taking a photo that will pass
The photos that fail review fail at the camera, not the crop. The recipe that passes: daylight from the front (a window works), the phone at eye level and two metres away — arm's-length selfies distort the face — a plain wall behind, both ears visible, eyes open, mouth closed, no glare on glasses. Shoot a little wide; cropping room is what lets the guides do their work here.
Recency matters more than people expect: passport and visa rules ask for a photo taken within the last six months, and border officers do compare. Re-shooting takes five minutes; an appointment lost to an old photo takes weeks.
A privacy point specific to this tool: a passport photo is biometric data attached to your identity documents. Every step here — the crop, the DPI tag, the compression, the sheet — happens inside your browser tab. There is no upload, no server-side face processing, and no copy of your photo anywhere but your own device.
Frequently asked questions
What size is an Indian passport photo?
2 × 2 inches (51 × 51 mm) — 600 × 600 pixels at the standard 300 DPI, with the face occupying roughly 60–75% of the frame against a plain light background. The 2 × 2 preset produces exactly this.
What size do exam forms want?
Most recruitment and admission portals ask for a 3.5 × 4.5 cm photo, often capped at 20–50 KB. Use the 35 × 45 preset and set the KB limit the portal states — the output meets both at once.
My photo's background isn't plain white. Can I still use it?
Run it through the Background Remover on this site first — it cuts the subject out onto white, entirely in your browser — then crop the result here. That two-step covers the most common rejection reason.
How many photos fit on the 4×6 print sheet?
Eight at 35 × 45 mm, four at 2 × 2 inches — tiled with cut lines on a standard 6 × 4 inch print at 300 DPI. Any photo shop prints it as an ordinary photo.
Is 300 DPI really written into the file?
Yes — the JPG's JFIF metadata is set to 300 DPI, which is what portals checking a DPI requirement actually read. The pixel dimensions carry the real detail; the DPI tag makes the label agree with the spec.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. Cropping, encoding, the KB search and the sheet are all done by your browser. A face photo is biometric data — this tool is built so it never leaves your machine.