Passport Photo Size Checker
Crop a photo to a country’s passport or visa specification, with the head-height and eye-line guides drawn on, and download it at the right pixel size.
- Dimensions and framing. The output is the exact pixel size the specification asks for, at the right aspect ratio, with the head-height and eye-line guides drawn where that specification puts them.
- Background. Nothing here checks that the background is plain, light and shadow-free. A textured wall or a shadow behind the head is one of the two most common reasons a photo is rejected.
- Expression and eyes. Neutral expression, mouth closed, both eyes open and looking straight at the lens. No smile in most countries. Nothing on this page can see any of that.
- Glasses, hair and head coverings. Many authorities now refuse glasses entirely. Hair must not cover the eyes. Head coverings are usually allowed only for religious reasons, and the full face must still show.
- Recency and print quality. Most authorities want a photo taken within the last six months, printed on photo-quality paper, unretouched and undamaged. A crop cannot make an old photo recent.
Nothing you type here is uploaded, stored or sent anywhere. It all runs in your browser.
Photos are rejected for framing far more often than for size
People assume the hard part is getting 35 by 45 millimetres exactly right. It is not — any photo lab and this page can do that. The part that gets photos sent back is the head: how tall it is inside the frame, and where the eyes sit. Most specifications state a head height as a range in millimetres, which is a proportion of the photo height once you do the arithmetic, and a photo where the head is 26 millimetres in a 45-millimetre frame is a correctly sized photo that will still be refused.
That is what the guides on the canvas are for. The oval is where the head should sit, the solid line is the eye line where the specification gives one, and the two dashed lines are the lowest and highest the chin may be. Zoom and drag until the head fills the oval. If the head is comfortably inside the dashed pair, the framing is right.
Why the pixel size and the DPI both matter
A digital application checks pixels. A printed one checks millimetres. The two are joined by resolution: 35 by 45 millimetres at 300 dots per inch is 413 by 531 pixels, and the same 413 by 531 pixels at 72 DPI is a photo 146 millimetres tall, which a lab will happily print at the wrong size. This tool writes the resolution into the file itself — a pHYs chunk in a PNG, the JFIF density fields in a JPEG — so the physical size travels with the image instead of being a thing you have to explain at the counter.
The specifications that are pixel sizes rather than print sizes
Three of the entries here are digital-first. The US Diversity Visa lottery wants exactly 600 by 600 pixels and rejects anything else outright. The UK digital passport photo has a 600 by 750 pixel minimum. China's online visa system expects 354 by 472. For those, the resolution shown is what that pixel count works out to at the corresponding print size, which is the number to give a lab if you also need prints.
Everything happens in this page
The photo is read with the browser's file reader, drawn onto a canvas, cropped by the canvas and handed back to you as a download. It is never sent anywhere, because there is nowhere to send it — this site has no backend on this page. That is worth caring about: a passport photo is a biometric record of your face, and the free online croppers that ask you to upload one are receiving exactly that.
Where these numbers came from
They were compiled in September 2026 from the published requirements of each issuing authority and converted to proportions of the photo height. They are accurate to the published specification and they are not a guarantee of acceptance — requirements are revised, and individual consulates add their own rules. For anything with a fee attached, check the current official guidance before you submit.
Questions people ask
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
No. The file is read by your own browser, drawn to a canvas and cropped there. Nothing is transmitted, nothing is stored, and closing the tab removes it completely. You can confirm this by loading the page, disconnecting from the internet and using the tool — it works exactly the same.
Will a photo cropped here definitely be accepted?
No, and no tool can promise that. This gets the dimensions, the aspect ratio, the head height and the eye line right. It cannot judge the background, your expression, glasses, shadows, hair over the eyes or how recently the photo was taken, and those are what most rejections are actually about.
Why is my downloaded file a slightly different size to the original?
Because it is re-rendered at the specification’s pixel dimensions, not resized from your file. If your original is smaller than the target, the crop is being enlarged and will look soft — start from the largest version of the photo you have.
JPEG or PNG?
JPEG for almost everything: most authorities ask for it by name, and some set a maximum file size that a PNG will exceed. PNG is the better choice only when you have been told specifically to supply one.
Can I use a photo from my phone?
Yes, and the quality is usually fine. Take it against a plain light wall, in even daylight with no flash, from about a metre and a half away with the camera at eye level, and have someone else hold the phone. A selfie at arm’s length distorts the face enough to be refused.
Does it remove the background?
No. It crops and scales, nothing else. If your background is not plain and light, reshoot against one — a background replaced by software is visibly replaced, and that is itself a rejection reason in several countries.
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