Size, crop and print passport photos on your device.
A US passport photo is a square, not the tall rectangle used in many other countries. The State Department manual, 8 FAM 402.1, states that the photograph should be 2 inches by 2 inches overall, and that the facial image should be between 1 inch and 1 3/8 inches, measured from the top of the head to the bottom of the chin. This page opens with that size selected. At 300 DPI it comes out as 600 by 600 pixels. Drag the frame over your face, zoom until the top of your head meets the top guide line and your chin sits between the two lower lines, then press Make photo. You also get a print sheet: a 4 by 6 inch sheet holds 2 of these square photos, and an A4 sheet holds 15. The head guide is a visual aid built from the numbers on that page, converted to millimetres. This page cannot judge lighting, expression or background, and the Department decides whether a photo is accepted. Read the current rules before you print.
Pick a size from the list, or choose Custom and type a width and height from 10 to 200 mm. The tool turns millimetres into pixels at 300 DPI, which is the usual resolution for photo prints. That is 35 by 45 mm = 413 by 531 pixels, and 2 by 2 inches = 600 by 600 pixels. Each listed size shows the official page it was taken from and the date it was checked, because photo rules change. The frame on screen is locked to the shape of the size you picked, so you can move it and zoom in, but you cannot stretch the photo. If your photo has fewer pixels across the frame than the output needs, a warning says so and the result is enlarged, which can look soft.
The dashed oval and the lines on the frame are a guide, drawn on screen only. They are never part of the file you download. For sizes where the official page states a head height, the top line marks the crown of the head and the two lower lines mark the shortest and the tallest head the page allows. Zoom and drag until the top of your head touches the top line and your chin falls between the lower two. For sizes where the page gives no head height, the guide is a plain oval labelled as approximate, and you should follow the written rules on the official page. The tool does not detect faces. It cannot tell you where your head is, so you do the lining up by eye.
Along with the single photo, the tool builds a print sheet of the same photo repeated: 4 by 6 inches (1200 by 1800 pixels) or A4 (2480 by 3508 pixels), both at 300 DPI. Photos are placed with a 24 pixel gap, about 2 mm, and thin cut marks sit outside the block so they never touch a photo. Each photo has a mark at both of its edges, so there are two marks at every gap: cut along both and the thin strip between photos falls away, leaving each photo at its exact size. A 35 by 45 mm photo gives 6 copies on a 4 by 6 sheet and 30 on A4. Copies defaults to as many as fit; type a smaller number if you need fewer. The JPEG files carry no DPI tag, only pixels, so do not rely on the file to set the print size. At a print shop, give them the sheet file and ask for a 4 by 6 inch print (or A4) with no fit-to-page scaling or cropping. At home, choose the paper size and a scale of 100% in the print dialog and use photo paper.
It does not change or remove the background. Use a plain, light background, face the camera, and avoid shadows on the face and behind you. It does not detect faces, retouch, brighten, or rotate the photo. It cannot promise that a photo is accepted: the authority that issues the passport or visa decides that, and its rules can differ from the ones in the list or change after the date shown. Check the official guidance before you print. An optional maximum file size lowers the JPEG quality until the file fits, but never shrinks the pixel size; if the limit cannot be met at that size, the tool tells you the smallest file it could make.
United States, 2 by 2 inches and head height: https://fam.state.gov/fam/08fam/08fam040201.html. India passport, 4.5 cm by 3.5 cm: https://www.passportindia.gov.in/AppOnlineProject/pdf/ApplicationformInstructionBooklet-V3.0.pdf. India OCI, square, not less than 51 by 51 mm: https://ociservices.gov.in/onlineOCI/faq. United Kingdom, 35 by 45 mm and head height: https://www.gov.uk/photos-for-passports/photo-requirements. Canada, 50 by 70 mm and face height: https://www.canada.ca/en/immigration-refugees-citizenship/services/canadian-passports/photos.html. Each was read on 8 Oct 2026. Sizes with no official page that states them are not in the list; use Custom with the numbers from your own authority.
2 by 2 inches at 300 DPI is 600 by 600 pixels. This page saves exactly that as a JPEG. If you must upload online, check the pixel limits on the application page first, because they may differ from a printed photo.
Two. A 600 by 600 pixel photo, with the gap between photos and the margin, fits twice on a 4 by 6 inch sheet and 15 times on A4. Type a smaller number in Copies if you only need one or two.
This tool cannot say. The authority that issues the passport or visa decides, and its rules can change. The tool gives you the size in millimetres, the pixel size at 300 DPI and a head-size guide where the official page states one. Check the official guidance linked next to each size before you print.
No. Nothing is removed or replaced. Take the photo against a plain, light wall, face the camera and avoid shadows. A transparent PNG is filled with white before it is saved as a JPEG, but a busy background stays exactly as it is.
It means 300 pixels for every inch of print. The tool uses it to turn millimetres into pixels: a 35 by 45 mm photo is 413 by 531 pixels, and a 2 by 2 inch photo is 600 by 600 pixels. The JPEG has no DPI tag, so the print size comes from the paper size and scale you choose when you print.
Take the sheet JPEG to a photo kiosk or print shop and ask for a 4 by 6 inch print with no fit-to-page scaling or cropping. At home, choose 4 by 6 paper and a scale of 100% in the print dialog. Cut along the marks; there are two at each gap, one for each photo's edge. A 35 by 45 mm photo fits 6 times.
No. The cropping and the sheet are made by your browser in this tab, so there is no upload step and no server that receives the photo. The page counts visits with Google Analytics using rough groups, never a file name, a picture or a size.
A warning appears when the frame covers fewer pixels than the output needs, for example fewer than 413 across for 35 by 45 mm. You can still make the photo, but it is enlarged and may look soft. Use a larger original if you can.