Passport photo maker

From selfie to passport photo

Choose a photo of yourself looking straight at the camera and pick the size: US passport and visa (2 × 2 in), EU, UK and Schengen visa (35 × 45 mm) or Canada (50 × 70 mm). The background is replaced with plain white, your head is scaled to the size the rules ask for and centred, and you get a ready-to-print 300 dpi photo.

You also get a 4 × 6 in (10 × 15 cm) sheet with several copies, the standard print size at pharmacies and photo kiosks, so printing costs cents. Cut along the thin grey lines.

Take a good photo first

Stand about a metre from a plain wall, face the camera with a neutral expression and both eyes open, no hat, and light coming from the front so there are no shadows on your face. Glasses are not allowed in US passport photos. The tool fixes the background, size and framing; it can't fix shadows, blur or expression.

Private by design

The AI that finds your face and separates you from the background runs in your browser. Your photo isn't uploaded anywhere. The first time, the models (about 90 MB) are downloaded and kept by your browser.

Rules change and some offices only accept photos taken by them: check your government's current rules before you submit.

A small face-detection model (UltraFace, MIT licence) finds your face; its lower edge is your chin. A background-removal model (ormbg, Apache-2.0) separates you from the background, and the top of your hair is the first row above your face that belongs to you. The photo is then cropped so that the distance from the top of your head to your chin matches the official proportion: 32–36 mm of a 45 mm photo for ICAO 9303 (EU, UK), 1–1⅜ in of a 2 in photo for the US.