Passport Photo Maker - Free ID Photo Tool, No Upload

Crop a photo to an official passport or ID size, replace the background, and tile copies onto a 4×6 print sheet. Everything runs in your browser — the photo is never uploaded.

This tool sets the frame, the size and the resolution. It cannot judge your pose, expression, glasses, headwear or lighting — check your authority’s current rules before you submit, and treat the sizes below as a starting point rather than an approval.

What This Tool Does

This tool crops a photo you already have to an official document size, optionally replaces the background with a plain colour, and can tile finished copies onto a print sheet. All of it runs in your browser. That last point is not a footnote here: a passport photo is a picture of your face attached to an identity document application, and the usual way to make one online is to upload it to a company that keeps it under a retention policy you have not read. Nothing here is transmitted. Everything is measured in millimetres first. A document photo is a physical object before it is a file — the authority specifies 35 × 45 mm, not a pixel count — so each specification is stored in millimetres and converted to pixels once, at the DPI you pick. Working the other way round is how photos come back from the printer at subtly the wrong size. At 300 DPI a 2 × 2 in US photo comes out as exactly 600 × 600 px, which is also the digital size the State Department publishes. There is deliberately no automatic face detection. An automatic crop that is confidently wrong costs you a rejected application and a new appointment, and no in-browser detector is dependable enough across lighting, headwear and skin tones to carry that responsibility quietly. Instead the tool draws the bands your head and eyes have to fall between and lets you align your own face with three sliders — a judgement you can make correctly and confirm with your own eyes. The print sheet is the part most online tools leave out: copies are tiled edge to edge with cut lines, so one 6 × 4 print from any photo lab yields eight 35 × 45 mm photos or six 2 × 2 in ones, at a fraction of what a booth charges.

Why Not Use a Booth or an Upload Service

A booth charges for a strip you cannot re-take, and an upload service asks you to hand a photograph of your face to a third party. Both problems disappear when the cropping happens on your own machine.

The photo never leaves your browser — no upload, no retention policy, no company holding an image of your face
Re-crop and re-export as many times as you like: there is no per-photo charge and no watermark to pay to remove
A print sheet turns one cheap 6 × 4 lab print into six or eight usable photos, cut along the printed lines
Every size on the page carries the source it came from and the date it was last checked, so you can verify it yourself

How to Make a Passport Photo

Start from a straight-on photo taken against a plain wall in even light. The tool handles the framing; the photography is on you.

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Pick the document you are applying for — the frame, the guide bands and the output size all follow from it

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Upload your photo and use the zoom and position sliders until your crown and chin sit inside the blue bands

3

Replace the background with white or another plain colour if your original is busy, then check the hair edges

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Choose a print sheet if you want physical copies, then download the photo, the sheet, or both

Passport Photo FAQ

No tool can promise that, and one that does is overselling. This tool controls the frame, the physical size and the resolution, which is the part that is objectively measurable. It cannot judge the things applications are most often rejected for: a tilted head, a smile that shows teeth where a neutral expression is required, glare on glasses, hair across the eyes, shadows on the face or behind it, or a photo older than six months. Read your authority’s current checklist before submitting.
No. Decoding, cropping, background replacement and encoding all happen inside your browser, and the finished files are written straight to your downloads. This matters more here than on almost any other tool: the input is a photograph of your face attached to an identity document application. The background-removal model is downloaded once from a public CDN, but your photo is never sent anywhere — the model comes to the image, not the other way round.
Because the failure mode is expensive. An automatic crop that is subtly wrong looks plausible, gets submitted, and costs an appointment and a re-application when the head height turns out to be 2 mm outside the allowed range. In-browser face detectors are also least reliable exactly where reliability matters most — unusual lighting, head coverings, and darker skin tones. Guide bands plus three sliders put the judgement with the person who can actually verify it.
Choose a print sheet — 6 × 4 in is the standard photo-lab size — and the tool tiles copies edge to edge with light cut lines. A 6 × 4 holds eight 35 × 45 mm photos or six 2 × 2 in ones. Upload that single sheet to any photo printing service, or print it at home on photo paper at 100% scale with no "fit to page" scaling, then cut along the lines. Because the copies reach the paper edge, ask for borderless printing where it is offered.
Good on a clearly separated subject in even light, and imperfect where hair meets background — fine strands and frizz are where every segmentation model struggles. It also has trouble when you are wearing something close in colour to the wall behind you. Always look at the edges before you submit, and remember that the cleanest result comes from photographing against a plain light wall in the first place, with the replacement used only as a tidy-up.
300 DPI is the print standard and what almost every authority expects; at that setting a 2 × 2 in photo is 600 × 600 px, matching the published digital size for a US passport. Use 600 DPI only when an authority explicitly asks for it or when you want extra headroom for a large print — it quadruples the pixel count and the file size for detail that a photo print cannot resolve anyway.
It is the most common reason a home-made photo looks wrong, though not because of the camera. Holding a phone at arm’s length puts the lens about 40 cm from your face, and at that distance perspective enlarges the nose and narrows the ears — some authorities reject the result as a poor likeness. Have someone else take it from about two metres away with the phone zoomed in slightly, or prop the phone up and use a timer. Even, frontal light and a plain wall do the rest.
35 × 45 mm is the most widely used document photo size in the world — it covers the Schengen area, the UK, India, Australia, Japan, most of Africa and much of Asia — so the Schengen entry is very likely the right frame even when your country is not listed by name. The list is short on purpose: adding entries we have not checked separately would imply a verification that had not happened. Compare the millimetres against your authority’s published figure before you use it.

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