Make a Passport Photo
This maker does the part every rejection letter is actually about: geometry. It measures your head height, eye line, pose and background against the country rule you select, shows the numbers, crops to the exact millimetres and encodes into the required file window — all free, all on your device.
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How it works
- Pick your country or document from the preset list.
- Drop a straight-on photo with the whole head and shoulders in frame.
- Confirm the green crown line sits at the top of the hair — drag it if the estimate is off.
- Read the pass/warn/fail measurements, then export to the exact spec.
Worth knowing
Photo booths get the geometry right and the convenience wrong; phone apps get convenience right and increasingly get you rejected for the opposite reason — visible processing. Passport authorities have hardened against edited photos: the US State Department now instructs applicants not to alter photos with software, filters or AI, and the UK requires photos "unaltered by computer software". A tool that beautifies your passport photo is manufacturing a rejection reason.
So this one refuses to. It performs three operations an examiner would recognise as legitimate: measuring, cropping and re-encoding. Face landmarks are detected on your device with a small open model, the chin and eye positions are located precisely, and a crown estimate is drawn as a draggable line — estimate, because no landmark model can see through hair, and the honest fix is a one-second human confirmation rather than a silent guess.
Every check reports its actual number against the published range: head height in millimetres, eye line as a percentage from the top, roll, yaw and pitch in degrees, and background colour and evenness measured in CIELAB — the colour space built to match human perception of difference. A "warn" means you are inside the rule but near its edge; a "fail" quotes the number that missed. What none of the verdicts ever say is "approved", because only the issuing authority approves photos.
The five countries with dedicated pages — US, UK, Schengen, India, Canada — carry full requirement tables sourced from their authorities, each with the verification date shown. Twenty further document presets cover the common sizes. When your photo passes the measurements, the print-sheet tool tiles it onto a 4×6 or A4 sheet, which turns one drugstore print into six-plus regulation photos.
Background eveness is checked here in CIELAB ΔE units — the same perceptual measure print labs use — because "white" that varies by more than about ΔE 5 across the frame usually means a shadow, and shadows are among the most common stated rejection reasons.
What this tool will not do
- It will not replace or repaint your background — authorities now detect and reject synthetic backgrounds; re-shoot against the right wall instead.
- It will not verify rules pixels cannot show: photo age, glasses policy compliance, or printing paper quality.
- It is not an official pre-check; the measurements mirror published specs, but acceptance decisions belong to the issuing office.
Questions people ask
Why was my passport photo rejected for head size?
Most specs demand the chin-to-crown distance fall inside a band around 70–80% of frame height — 25–35 mm for a US 2×2, for instance. Selfie framing almost always makes heads too large. This tool measures your actual millimetres before you print or submit.
Can I take the photo myself with a phone?
For most countries, yes, if geometry and lighting comply: camera at eye height 1.5–2 m away, subject 30–50 cm from a plain wall to soften shadows, indirect daylight facing you. The measurements here tell you whether the attempt worked.
Does this tool fix my background automatically?
Deliberately not on ID photos. India's portal and the US instructions both push against software-altered photos, and a replaced background is exactly the artefact examiners look for. The tool measures whether your real background passes and tells you plainly when it will not.
What does the draggable crown line do?
Face models locate chins and eyes precisely but cannot see the top of hair. The line starts at an estimated crown; you drag it to where the head genuinely ends, and every head-height measurement updates from that confirmed point.
Which countries are covered?
Dedicated measured pages for the US, UK, Schengen area, India and Canada, plus presets for Australia, Japan, China, Germany, France, Brazil, Singapore, the UAE and common document formats like the DV lottery and India PAN card.
Is a photo like this accepted for online renewal uploads?
Digital channels have their own pixel and byte windows — 600×600 to 1200×1200 px under 240 KB for US uploads, 630×810 px for India's portal. The exporter encodes into the selected country's window automatically.
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