100% on-device
Make a passport photo in your browser
Exact size for the document you actually need, guides that put your head at the right height, and a 10 × 15 cm sheet you can hand to any photo lab. No upload, no sign-up — your face never leaves this tab.
How it works
- Pick the document. Each preset carries the real millimetres from that government's own page — and a link to it.
- Line up the head. Chin on the lower line, top of the head on the upper one. That is the measurement your photo is judged on, so the tool has you set it rather than guessing at it with a face detector.
- Download. A single photo at 300 DPI, and a print sheet with as many copies as the paper actually holds.
Why the head height is the whole game
A passport photo is not rejected for looking bad. It is rejected for measuring wrong: the head must be a given number of millimetres tall, in a photo of a given number of millimetres. So this tool works entirely in millimetres and converts to pixels exactly once, at print resolution — the preview and the printed photo are the same geometry, not two guesses that might disagree.
And "the top of the head" is not one thing. ICAO — followed by the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan — means the top of your skull, ignoring hair. The United States means the top of your hair. A tool that uses one rule for both is silently wrong for one of them; this one tells you which line you are aligning to, for the document you picked.
Documents it knows
- 🇪🇺 Schengen visa / EU — 35 × 45 mm
- 🇺🇸 US passport — 50.8 × 50.8 mm
- 🇺🇸 US visa / Green Card lottery — 50.8 × 50.8 mm
- 🇬🇧 UK passport — 35 × 45 mm
- 🇨🇦 Canada passport — 50 × 70 mm
- 🇦🇺 Australia passport — 35 × 45 mm
- 🇨🇳 China visa / passport — 33 × 48 mm
- 🇯🇵 Japan passport — 35 × 45 mm
- 🇺🇦 Ukraine 3 × 4 cm (internal documents) — 30 × 40 mm
- 🌐 ICAO biometric (generic 35 × 45 mm) — 35 × 45 mm
Each of those pages opens the tool on that preset and spells out the one rule that document is actually failed for — the cream background the UK insists on, the hair the United States measures and nobody else does, the 70–80% rule that wrecks a Canadian photo.
Every number above was read off the issuing government's own page, and each preset links to it. Two deliberate omissions: India, because no primary source could be reached and the copies floating around the web contradict each other on the size itself; and Brazil, because for anyone aged five or over the Federal Police photograph you at the appointment, so a bring-your-own preset would misrepresent the process. A confidently wrong number here costs someone a rejected application, which is a worse outcome than a missing preset.
Common questions
Is my photo really not uploaded?
Yes — and as a fact of how it is built, not as a policy. There is no upload endpoint: the photo is read straight into this browser tab and cropped by code running on your own machine. You can disconnect from the internet mid-way and it will still finish. Given what a passport photo is — your face, on a government form — that is the only honest way to build this.
Why do you make me mark my own head?
Because it is the one thing you can do better than the software, and everything else follows from it. You drag three markers — the top of your head, your chin, and the middle of your face — and from those the crop is fully determined: the scale comes from the head height your document demands, the position from where it wants the crown. So zoom and centring are not chores you perform, they are results the tool computes, and the head height is right by construction rather than by eye. It also means there is no face-detection model to download, and nothing about your face is ever computed anywhere but in this tab.
What does “top of the head” actually mean?
It depends on the country, and this is where most tools quietly get it wrong. ICAO — and with it the UK, Germany, Canada, Australia and Japan — defines the crown as the top of the head as if you had no hair: volume of hair does not count. The United States is the exception and measures to the top of the HAIR. The tool tells you which one applies to the document you picked, because the same photo can be correct for one and rejected by the other.
Can it replace my background?
Yes, but it is a tick-box that is OFF by default, and that is deliberate. Digitally altering a photo is exactly what several governments reject — Canada names AI edits specifically, and Australia asks for unedited photos — so the safe path for a passport is still a real wall in the right colour, and the tool says so next to the switch rather than burying it here. Where it earns its keep is internal documents and the ordinary case of a wall that is the right kind of plain but the wrong shade. It fills only background that touches the edge of the frame, so it cannot eat a grey shirt in the middle of the picture — but it does need a wall that is already fairly even, and it tells you when it is not. It paints your document’s own colour, which is not always white: the UK wants cream or light grey and rejects the pure white everybody assumes.
How do I print it?
Download the print sheet and take it to any photo lab as an ordinary 10 × 15 cm (4 × 6 in) print — it costs small change and comes back on real photo paper. The tool works out how many copies fit from the paper size itself: ten of the 3 × 4 cm, eight of a 35 × 45 mm, six of the US 2 × 2 in. If you print at home, print at 100% scale and never "fit to page" — that silently rescales the sheet and makes every millimetre wrong.
Is this photo guaranteed to be accepted?
No tool can promise that, and one that does is lying to you. What this does guarantee is the geometry: the photo is the exact millimetres the document asks for, and if you put the chin and crown on the lines, the head is inside the legal band. The rest is on the photo itself — lighting, background, expression, glasses off — and every preset lists those rules with a link to the government page they came from.