AI Passport Photo Maker
Crop a photo to an exact document size — passport 35×45 mm, US visa 2×2 inch, PAN, exam forms — and print a 4×6 sheet of copies. Real millimetre specs at 300 DPI, no credits, no watermark.
- Exact mm and px sizes
- 300 DPI print sheet
- Exam 50 KB cap
- No login needed
Crop, resample and print layout — no AI model, so nothing is charged.
A passport photo fails for stupid reasons: four millimetres too tall, a file 12 KB over the limit, the head too low in the frame, a background that is off-white instead of white. Every one of those is a measurement problem, and measurement problems should not be solved by an AI model guessing at proportions.
That is why this page does the maths instead: each document size is stored in millimetres and pixels at 300 dots per inch, so a passport photo comes out exactly 35 by 45 mm, a US visa exactly 2 by 2 inches, a PAN card exactly 213 pixels square, and an exam photo under the 50 KB cap that the portal enforces. No credits, no login, no watermark.
Document sizes, exactly
| Document | Size | Output at 300 DPI |
|---|---|---|
| Indian passport / visa | 35 × 45 mm | 413 × 531 px |
| US passport / visa | 2 × 2 inch (51 × 51 mm) | 600 × 600 px |
| PAN card (NSDL) | 213 × 213 px | 213 × 213 px |
| Exam / application forms | 200 × 230 px, under 50 KB | 200 × 230 px, quality-stepped |
| Stamp size | 20 × 25 mm | 236 × 295 px |
| Social square | 1080 × 1080 px | 1080 × 1080 px |
Different portals occasionally ask for something else. When they do, follow their page rather than this table: the authority that reads the file sets the rule.
How to make a passport photo in three steps
- 1Upload a plain-background portraitJPG, PNG or WEBP up to 8 MB. Stand against a plain wall, face the camera, fill about 70 percent of the frame with your head and shoulders.
- 2Pick the document sizeThe size chip sets both the crop ratio and the exact pixel output. Head position controls whether the crop favours the top of the frame (passport style, head high) or the centre.
- 3Download the photo and the sheetYou get the single image for the upload and a 4×6 inch sheet with up to twelve copies for printing. Print at 300 DPI on photo paper and cut along the gaps.
Photo rules that actually get rejected
- Background must be plain white or very light grey, with no shadow behind the head.
- Full face, eyes open, mouth closed, no smiling in most passport standards.
- No glasses in Indian passport photos, and no tinted lenses anywhere.
- Ears visible where the standard requires it, hair not covering the eyebrows.
- No uniform, no headgear except for religious reasons, no heavy jewellery.
- Even lighting: a hard shadow on one side of the face is the most common rejection after size.
Printing the sheet without a photo studio
The sheet is laid out on a 4 by 6 inch canvas at 300 DPI, which is a standard photo print size at every print shop and on most home photo printers. Ask for glossy or matte photo paper, print at actual size, and make sure the printer is not set to fit-to-page, which would shrink the photos by a few percent and take them below the required size.
Cut along the gaps with a paper trimmer rather than scissors: document photos are measured, and a millimetre of drift at the edge is exactly what a counter clerk notices. Keep the sheet flat until you use it, because a bent corner reads as damage.
Why this page does not use an AI model
An image model would be the wrong tool here. Passport photography is a specification, and a generative model is a guess: it can change the face slightly, invent a background, or shift the crop by a few pixels, and any of those is a rejection. Cropping, resampling and laying out a sheet are deterministic operations, which is why they run in well under a second and cost nothing.
AI does help in the step before: if the photo was taken on a phone with a messy background, remove the background first and place the subject on white, then come back here for the exact crop. That is the only place where a model adds value to a document photo.
Free, no login, and why
This tool needs no account because there is no model call behind it and nothing to meter: the server crops, resamples and composites, then sends the result back. That is why it stays free while the generation tools on this site use credits.
Uploads are capped at 8 MB, images are processed in memory and the result is returned to your browser; nothing is stored on the server after the response.
Baby, child and senior photos
Children are the hardest subject for a document photo because the head has to be the right size in the frame while the face stays neutral, and a two-year-old does not take direction. The practical trick is to photograph the child from above at eye level, against a plain wall, and take twenty frames in a burst: one of them will have the head straight and the mouth closed. Crop afterwards rather than trying to compose in camera.
For infants and for elderly applicants, the same rules apply with one relaxation: some authorities accept a wider crop that includes a supporting hand, and most accept a neutral expression instead of a smile. Check the specific authority's page before you print, because this is the one place where the general rule is not universal.
Common formatting mistakes that cost a second visit
The three mistakes that send people back to the queue are a file that is slightly too big, a photo printed at fit-to-page so it shrinks by five percent, and a background that is off-white in a way the eye forgives and the scanner does not. All three are avoidable: the exam preset here steps the JPEG quality down until the file is under 50 KB, the sheet is laid out at exactly 4 by 6 inches, and a plain wall photographed in daylight gives a background that reads as white.