Passport Photo Maker

Passport Photo Maker crops and sizes a photo to an official document size — India, UK, EU, US, Canada, Australia, China visa or Indian PAN, or millimetres you type — and lays out a 6 x 4 inch sheet of copies with cut guides.

Every pixel count is worked out from the millimetre size and the DPI you pick: millimetres divided by 25.4, multiplied by DPI, so 35 x 45 mm at 300 DPI comes out at exactly 413 x 531 pixels. The source is centre-cropped to the right proportions and then scaled down in halving steps, and where your original cannot support the DPI you asked for at that print size, you are told the figure it does support instead of being handed a soft print without warning. What this does not do is check the things an authority checks — head height, eye line, expression, and a plain background free of shadows are all still on you, and a photo can be exactly the right size and still be rejected.

The crop, the resize and the sheet layout all happen in your browser, which matters here: a passport photograph is identity data, and it is not uploaded anywhere.

Making a correctly sized visa photo from a picture you already have, producing a sheet of stamp-size photos to take to a print shop, hitting the 2 x 2 inch requirement on a US form, and getting a PAN-size photo without a studio visit.

Also known as: passport photo · visa photo size · 2x2 photo maker · 35x45mm photo