Create Passport Photos Online
Passport, visa, ID and official document photos in seconds — auto crop, background, and print-ready sheets.
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How it works
Free passport & ID photo maker for any country
A passport photo is an unusual thing to have to produce. It is not a portrait you are judging by eye \u2014 it is a specification, written by an office you will never meet, covering the paper size in millimetres, how much of the frame your head must occupy, where your eyes have to sit and what colour the wall behind you should be. Get one number wrong and the application comes back. This tool exists to turn those numbers into something you can see and adjust.
Pick a country and document type, add a photograph or take one with your camera, and the correct dimensions, head range and background are applied for you. Everything happens inside your own browser, at 300 DPI, with no account and no mark on the result.
202 templates, 197 countries
Most of the world settled on 35 × 45 mm, the size the ICAO standard describes, and a template using it will serve you in the majority of countries. The exceptions are the ones that catch people out, so those are set individually rather than assumed:
| Document | Size | Head height |
|---|---|---|
| India passport | 35 × 45 mm | 28–35 mm |
| US passport and visa | 51 × 51 mm | 26–35 mm |
| UK passport | 35 × 45 mm | 29–34 mm |
| Canada passport | 50 × 70 mm | 31–36 mm |
| Schengen visa | 35 × 45 mm | 31–36 mm |
| China visa | 33 × 48 mm | 28–33 mm |
| Bangladesh passport | 45 × 55 mm | 33–41 mm |
| Brazil passport | 50 × 70 mm | 35–42 mm |
| Argentina passport | 40 × 40 mm | 25–31 mm |
Thirty-five countries plus the Schengen area are curated this way, alongside eight visa templates, a generic ID card, a 2 × 2 inch preset and a custom entry that takes any measurement between 10 and 200 mm on either side. Whichever you choose, the guides, the checks and the print layout all follow from it.
What the compliance panel measures
Six checks run live while you move the photograph, and a percentage reflects how many of them are currently passing:
- Photo size \u2014 the finished millimetres and resolution for the chosen template.
- Head height \u2014 measured against the template range and reported in millimetres, so you can see how far off you are rather than just that something is wrong.
- Face centred \u2014 whether the head sits within a tolerance of the middle.
- Single face \u2014 more than one person in frame is a common rejection.
- Background \u2014 flagged while the original is still in place, since a real wall is rarely uniform enough.
- Resolution \u2014 whether your source has the pixels the template needs at print size.
Two of those \u2014 face position and face count \u2014 rely on face detection built into the browser, which not every browser provides. Where it is missing the panel says so instead of pretending, and the head outline and eye-line drawn over the preview do the same job by eye. Passing every check means the picture matches what the template asks for. It is not a promise of acceptance, because the office reviewing your application also looks at your expression, your glasses, the evenness of the lighting and how recent the photo is.
Backgrounds
Almost every specification wants a plain, uniform background, and almost every photograph taken at home has a door frame or a shadow in it. Removing the original and replacing it is usually faster than finding a blank wall. White, off-white, light grey and light blue are ready to use \u2014 the UK and much of Europe expect grey rather than white, which the templates already account for \u2014 and any other colour can be picked directly.
The cut-out runs on your own device. The first time you use it, roughly 40 MB of model data is fetched from a public CDN; after that it works from what your browser has cached. The full-precision model is used deliberately, because the smaller, faster one tends to lose fine strands of hair against a pale wall \u2014 exactly the case a passport photo puts it in.
Printing a sheet at home
Photo shops charge for a strip of identical pictures that any printer can produce. Switch to the print sheet and choose A4, US Letter or 4 × 6 inch paper, portrait or landscape. You set how many copies go on the page, the gap between them and the margin around the edge, then turn on cut lines and corner crop marks to make trimming straightforward. The layout is built at 300 DPI at true physical size and saves as a JPG or a PDF.
One thing to watch, because it undoes everything else: set your print dialog to actual size or 100%, never fit-to-page. Scaling to fit shrinks the sheet by a few percent, and a 35 mm photo printed at 34 mm is the wrong size.
Taking a photograph that works
The tool can reposition, recolour the background and correct brightness, contrast, saturation, warmth, sharpness, highlights and shadows \u2014 but it cannot undo a bad starting point. Face a window rather than a lamp so the light is even and flat. Have someone else hold the camera at your eye level, roughly an arm\u2019s length away, instead of shooting from below. Stand well clear of the wall so no shadow falls behind you. Fill enough of the frame that your head still carries real detail after cropping, since a 35 × 45 mm template at 300 DPI is a genuine print, not a thumbnail.
Finishing the job elsewhere on Pixpoo
Some applications set a file-size ceiling as well as a size in millimetres \u2014 upload forms asking for under 100 KB are common. Run the finished photo through Compress Image, which shows the weight falling as you adjust, and Convert Image if the form insists on a particular format. For retouching beyond the adjustments here, the photo editor has filters, layers and drawing tools. And if the photo has to be submitted inside a document, the JPG to PDF and Merge PDF tools will assemble it with the rest of your paperwork.
Frequently asked questions
Is the passport photo maker free?
Yes, from start to finish. There is no account to open, no export credit to buy and no mark left on the picture. You can produce a single photo or a whole print sheet as many times as you like.
Does my photo get uploaded anywhere?
No. Cropping, the background work, the adjustments, the compliance panel and the print sheet are all carried out by your own browser, and the picture is never transmitted. The only thing downloaded is software — the background-removal model comes from a public CDN the first time you use it, then does its work on your machine.
Which countries are covered?
There are 202 templates spanning 197 countries, plus a generic ID card size, a 2 × 2 inch preset and a custom option. Thirty-five countries and the Schengen area are curated individually because their requirements differ — the United States at 51 × 51 mm, Canada and Brazil at 50 × 70 mm, China at 33 × 48 mm, Bangladesh at 45 × 55 mm, Argentina at 40 × 40 mm and so on. Everywhere else uses 35 × 45 mm, the ICAO size most of the world follows.
Will my photo definitely be accepted?
No tool can promise that, and it is worth being straight about why: acceptance is decided by the office or agency reviewing your application, and their rules cover things software cannot see, such as your expression, your glasses, whether the lighting was even and how recently the picture was taken. What the tool does is measure the parts it can: the finished dimensions and resolution, how tall your head is against the template range, whether the face sits centred, whether exactly one face is present and whether the background is uniform. Passing all of them means the photo matches the template’s configured requirements, which is a good position to be in, not a guarantee.
How does the compliance check work?
Six checks run continuously as you adjust the photo, and a score reflects how many of them pass. Head height is compared against the range in the template and reported in millimetres, so you can see exactly how far off you are. Face position and face count use the browser’s built-in face detection, which only some browsers offer — where it is missing, the panel says so and the on-screen head and eye-line guides take over.
Can I change the background?
Yes. Remove the original and drop in white, off-white, light grey, light blue or a colour you pick yourself. Removal uses a segmentation model that runs on your own hardware; the first run fetches roughly 40 MB of model data, and afterwards it is quick. The version used here is the full-precision one, chosen because the lighter alternative loses fine strands of hair against a pale wall.
How do I print the photos myself?
Move to the print-sheet view, pick your paper — A4, US Letter or 4 × 6 inch, portrait or landscape — and decide the number of copies, the spacing and the margin. Cut lines and corner marks can be switched on to guide the scissors. The page is generated at 300 DPI at true physical dimensions and downloads as a JPG or a PDF. One caution at the printer: choose actual size or 100% in the print dialog, because fit-to-page quietly rescales the whole sheet.
What if my country or size is not listed?
Choose the custom option and type the dimensions in millimetres, anywhere from 10 to 200 on each side. Everything else — the guides, the checks, the print sheet — adapts to the size you enter.
What should the source photograph look like?
A straight-on shot of the head and shoulders, taken in even light with no strong shadow across the face or behind it. Fill enough of the frame that the head still has plenty of pixels once it is cropped, since a template at 300 DPI needs real resolution to print sharply. A phone camera held at arm’s length by someone else, near a window and away from direct sun, is usually better than any amount of correction afterwards.
Can I use it on my phone?
Yes, and the camera button opens a live front-facing preview so you can take the picture and go straight into the editor. Everything after that — cropping, background, checks, sheets — works the same on a phone as on a computer.