ID & Passport Photo Maker

ID Photo Maker
Crop to a standard size at 300 dpi and lay out a sheet you can have printed.
Drop a photo here
Or paste one with Ctrl+V — click to choose a file

An ID photo is a crop, a size and a background — and photo shops charge for all three. Start from a picture you already have, drag it into the frame against the head and eye guides, pick the standard you have been asked for, and save it at 300 dpi. There is also a sheet layout that fills a single 4×6 print with as many copies as will fit, so a print shop charges you for one photo instead of a set.

How to use ID & Passport Photo Maker

  1. Drop in a photo, paste one with Ctrl+V, or click to choose a file. A phone picture taken against a plain wall is enough to work with.
  2. Choose the size you have been asked for. Korean ID and passport photos are 35×45mm, half-card is 30×40mm, a US visa is 2×2 inches, and the Chinese one and two inch sizes are there too. The pixel size at 300 dpi is shown underneath.
  3. Drag the photo to move it and scroll to zoom. Line the head up inside the oval and the eyes on the horizontal line — that is what every standard is asking for, however it words it.
  4. Change the backdrop if you need to. White is the usual requirement; light blue and grey are accepted in some places. Raise the sensitivity slider until the wall goes and stop before your hair starts to.
  5. Nudge brightness and contrast if the photo was taken somewhere dim. Small moves only — an obviously edited face gets rejected.
  6. Save the single photo for anything you upload, or save the print sheet to take to a shop. Cut along the hairlines.

Tips & gotchas

  • Face straight at the camera with a neutral expression and both ears roughly visible. That, plus a plain background, is what most rejections come down to.
  • The guides are a starting point rather than a legal standard. Where the exact head height is specified — a US visa wants the head between 1 and 1⅜ inches — check the issuing authority and adjust the zoom to suit.
  • Take the source picture against a plain wall in daylight. Fixing a busy background afterwards is always worse than not having one.
  • The backdrop swap works down from the top of the frame and only takes colour that is joined to what it started on, so a light patch enclosed by your face — behind glasses, say — is left alone. Clothing that reaches the edge of the frame is not automatically safe: a pale shirt against a pale wall can go with it, which is exactly the kind of thing the preview is there to show you.
  • Save at the size you were asked for rather than resizing afterwards. Everything here is rendered at 300 dpi from the original pixels, so a resize later only loses detail.

Frequently asked questions

Will this photo be accepted for a passport or a visa?

The size, the resolution and the background will be right; the pose is on you. Authorities reject on things this tool cannot check — a smile, hair across the eyes, glare on glasses, a shadow behind the head, a picture more than six months old. Get the source picture right and the crop here will not be what fails it.

Why 300 dpi?

Because it is what print needs. A 35×45mm photo at 300 dpi is 413×531 pixels, and anything less is visibly soft once it is on paper at that size. Screens do not care, but the photo you print does, and the same file works for both.

How does the print sheet save money?

A photo shop charges per print, not per face. One 4×6 print holds six 35×45mm photos with room to cut between them — or nine of the smaller 30×40mm size — so you pay for a single picture and come away with a set. The button tells you how many the size you picked will fit, the sheet is laid out whichever way round the paper holds more, and hairline cut guides are printed around each copy. It is the same file whether you print it at a shop kiosk or at home.

Is my photo uploaded?

No. The picture is read into a canvas element in this tab, and every crop, colour change and export happens there. Nothing is sent to a server, which is worth caring about when the photo is going onto an identity document.

The background change is leaving edges around my hair.

That is the limit of what a colour-based fill can do — it can tell a wall from a face, but individual strands sit somewhere between the two. Lowering the sensitivity keeps more of your hair at the cost of leaving more of the wall. If the result still is not clean, the background remover on this site separates subject from backdrop properly; run the photo through it, then bring the transparent PNG back here to crop and size it.

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