Make print-ready passport size photos online — free and private
A passport studio charges a few dollars for what is really a thirty-second job: crop one photo to an exact size and tile it across a sheet of photo paper. The Passport Size Photo Maker does that same job in your browser. Upload a normal photo from your phone or camera, drag your face into a size-locked frame, fine-tune the lighting, optionally swap the background for plain white, and download a print-ready sheet that fits eight or more copies. Everything is measured at a true 300 DPI, so the photos come out the correct physical size when printed at actual scale — not stretched, not shrunk.
It is built for anyone who needs official-style photos without leaving home: passport and visa applicants, students filling in admission or exam forms, job seekers, ID-card renewals, and parents getting photos for a child. Because the whole tool runs on your own device, it is just as handy when you have no scanner, no printer at hand, or only a few minutes before an application deadline. Take the downloaded JPG or PDF to any nearby print shop and they can run it off in one go.
How to use it
- Upload a photo. Pick a clear, front-facing shot with even light, a neutral expression and a plain wall behind you. JPG, PNG and WEBP files up to 20 MB are supported.
- Choose a size. Tap a preset — Passport 35×45 mm, US Visa 2×2 inch, UK Visa 35×45 mm, ID Card 25×35 mm, 1×1 inch — or open Custom and type your own width and height in millimetres.
- Position and crop. Drag the photo inside the pink frame and use the zoom slider so your face fills the oval guide. The frame is locked to the size you chose, so the crop is always the right proportion. Press Apply crop when it looks right.
- Adjust and clean up. Nudge brightness, contrast, saturation and warmth, turn on subtle skin smoothing, and optionally remove the background to white or a colour of your choice. Add a thin border if your form needs cut lines.
- Pick a sheet and download. Choose a 4×6 inch photo-paper sheet, A4, or a custom size, then save as JPG or PDF, or print directly. Set the print scale to 100% (actual size) so the measurements stay exact.
Why size and DPI matter so much
Official photos are rejected more often for the wrong size than for anything else. A passport photo is not just "a small headshot" — it is a precise rectangle, usually 35×45 mm, with the face occupying a defined share of the height. This tool fixes the crop frame to the exact ratio of the size you select, so you physically cannot crop to the wrong shape. It also renders at 300 dots per inch, the standard for photo printing: a 35×45 mm photo becomes roughly 413×531 pixels, and the preview shows you those exact pixel dimensions. If you print the downloaded file at actual size, the ruler-measured result matches the requirement. The most common home-printing mistake is leaving the print dialog on "Fit to page", which silently resizes the sheet — always choose 100% scale and margins set to none.
Getting an official-looking result
Most authorities want the same basics: a plain white or light off-white background, a neutral expression with both eyes open and mouth closed, no harsh shadows on the face or behind the head, no reflections on glasses (many countries now ask you to remove glasses entirely), and nothing covering the face apart from everyday religious headwear. The face should sit centred and upright and fill roughly 70–80% of the frame height, which is exactly what the oval guide in the crop stage helps you line up. The built-in background removal can turn a busy room into a clean white backdrop in a few seconds; the brightness and warmth sliders help recover a photo taken under yellow indoor light. Keep edits light — over-smoothing skin or pushing contrast too far can make a photo look unnatural and get it bounced.
How the print sheet is laid out
Instead of printing one tiny photo, the tool tiles as many copies as will fit. On a 4×6 inch sheet, standard 35×45 mm passport photos arrange into a neat grid — commonly eight copies — with faint cut guides between them so a shop or a steady hand with scissors knows exactly where to trim. When you choose a larger sheet such as A4, the copies are still packed into a 4×6 inch block in the top-left corner with a dashed cut line around it, so you can crop a standard 4×6 print out of the bigger page and the rest stays blank. You can also set an exact number of copies, or leave the field empty to fill the available space automatically.
Your photos never leave your device
Privacy is built in, not bolted on. Cropping, colour adjustment, sheet layout and even the AI background removal all run inside your browser using your device's own processing — your photo is never uploaded to a server and nothing is stored after you close the page. The first time you use background removal the tool downloads a small model from a public CDN so it can work offline thereafter, but the image itself stays local. There is no account, no watermark and no upload step, which makes it safe to use for sensitive identity photos.
Go deeper: read our full guide — Passport Photo Sizes for Every Country.