About visa photo maker
Visa photographs follow the rules of the destination country, and those rules vary widely. This tool helps you crop and size a picture to the dimensions you enter.
Find the exact rules first
Look at the embassy or visa-centre page for the country you are applying to. Note the size in millimetres or pixels, the background colour, the share of the frame the face should fill and the file size limit.
Photo checklist
- Recent photo, usually taken within the last six months.
- Face straight on, eyes open, neutral expression.
- Plain background without patterns or shadows.
- No filters or retouching.
Fit to the size
Convert millimetres to pixels by multiplying inches by the DPI. For instance, 35 × 45 mm is about 413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI.
A worked example
If the instructions ask for 35 × 45 mm at 300 DPI, set the size to 413 × 531 pixels, crop so that the head takes up the proportion the embassy specifies and save as JPG within the file size limit.
