Passport & ID photo sizer

This is the whole reason this page exists separately from the resizer. Give most tools a 1000 × 600 photo and ask for a 600 × 600 passport picture and they will squeeze the width into the height — the file comes out at exactly the right dimensions and the face in it is 40% narrower than the person. Here the frame is locked to the shape the document requires and you move the photo behind it, so the output is a crop of your picture, never a squashed copy of it. The proportions of the face that come out are the proportions that went in.

Every specification on this page is quoted from the body that issues the document, and the source is named on screen next to the numbers: the US square 600 × 600 to 1200 × 1200 px at 240 KB or less and a 25–35 mm head from travel.state.gov, India's 4.5 × 3.5 cm on plain white from the Passport Seva instruction booklet, and the UK digital minimum of 600 × 750 px from gov.uk.

Some obvious presets are missing on purpose. We could not reach a primary source for the Schengen or Australian specifications — only resellers of photo tools, quoting each other. A wrong number here costs somebody a rejected application and a second trip, so an unverified preset is worse than no preset. Use the width, height and KB fields directly if your document is not listed.

Worth reading before you use the US preset, because travel.state.gov is stricter than most people expect and this page would rather quote it than paraphrase it:

“Submit the original, unedited photo without filters or digital changes.”

“Do not change your photo using computer software, phone apps or filters, or artificial intelligence.”

“Do not stretch or compress your image to resize it.”

Two of those are unambiguous and this tool does neither: nothing here retouches a face, removes a blemish, smooths skin, replaces a background or runs a model over your picture. The State Department also lists “the background is cropped using a photo retouching tool, changing the outline of your head, face, and neck” as a rejection reason — that is cutting around a person, not choosing a frame, and it is not what happens here either.

The third one is genuinely ambiguous, and pretending otherwise would be dishonest. “Stretch or compress” sits in a passage about resizing, so the most natural reading is distorting the aspect ratio — the exact thing this page exists to prevent. But the US preset also compresses to land under 240 KB, and 240 KB is the State Department’s own published maximum for a digital submission. Their guidance is in tension with itself, and we cannot resolve that for you.

So: use this to frame and size the photo, and do not use anything else on this site to “improve” it. If your application is one you cannot afford to have rejected, a photographer who does it in one shot removes the question entirely.

Source: travel.state.gov, passport photo requirements.

This page used to offer a Canada passport preset. The numbers on it were correct and came straight from canada.ca. It was removed on 21 August 2026 anyway, because the same page that publishes those numbers also says the photo must “be taken in person by a commercial photographer or photo studio”, that the photographer must write or stamp the studio’s name, address and the date on the back, and that the photo must “be an original photo that isn’t altered or edited in any way” — where “Altering includes using photo editing software, filters and AI tools”.

Read together, those rules mean no software can produce a compliant Canadian passport photo. Not this one, and not the paid services that will happily sell you one either. A preset that produced a perfectly sized, perfectly framed, automatically rejected photograph is worse than no preset, so it is gone. If you need a Canadian passport photo, you need a photographer. We would rather lose the visit than cost you the application.

Source: canada.ca, passport photo requirements.

Some authorities state how tall the head must be in the finished photo; others publish no such measurement at all. This page used to draw that range over your crop as a chin line and a shaded band. It no longer does, and the reason is worth saying plainly: the placement underneath it was an estimate. Finding a chin and an eye line is reliable; finding the top of a skull under hair is not, and there is no landmark for it. A line drawn to the millimetre over a position that is a guess looks like precision nobody here has.

So Fit the face for me places the head using the published range as its target, and the judgement of whether it landed right is yours and the counter clerk's. What this page still does exactly is the part that is arithmetic: the pixel dimensions, the aspect ratio and the file weight.

If the area you have framed contains fewer pixels than the output needs, the check says so and gives you the two numbers. It does not block you, because sometimes a slightly soft photo is the only one you have and the portal will take it. But enlarging invents detail that was never photographed, and you should be choosing that deliberately rather than discovering it when the application comes back.

Open your browser's Network tab before you pick a photo, and watch it while the tool runs. Your file never appears, because it is never sent: the cropping, the resizing and the JPEG encoding all happen in this page. There is no upload to cancel and no copy to delete.

Framing your photo and checking it against the published rules costs nothing, and you can do that as many times as you like. You see the finished photograph on screen, full size, with every measurement we made and where each rule came from. Nothing is uploaded — the photo is read, cropped and written inside this tab.

The finished file is $9.95, or $14.95 with a 4×6 print sheet laid out for a drugstore or home printer. One payment, no account, no subscription. If the photo fails a published rule we do not offer to sell it at all — we tell you what to change and you check again, free. A drugstore passport photo is $15–18, and that is the comparison we are asking you to make.

If you come back often, HermitFile Pro covers whole folders at once and keeps your settings for next time. For one photo you do not need it.

Two different kinds of check, kept apart on purpose. Against the published specification it measures the pixel size, the file weight in KB, and whether your original is big enough to fill the frame without being enlarged. Those come from the issuing authority, and if one of them fails the tool will not sell you the file — it tells you what to change and you check again, free.

About the photograph itself it measures whether the background is plain, light enough and evenly lit, and whether the picture is in focus, correctly exposed and in colour. Those are our own measurements, not quotations from a government page, so they are shown as advice and they never block a purchase. A grey wall is not a specification breach, and we are not going to refuse your money over our own arithmetic.

It still cannot tell whether your expression is neutral, whether glare on your glasses hides an eye, whether a head covering is permitted, or whether the picture is recent enough and looks like you. It also does not measure head height. Fit the face for me aims the head at the published range, but the crown of a head under hair cannot be located reliably by any of this, so nothing here is checked against a head-height rule and nothing here claims to be. Those items need a human eye, ideally the one at the counter.

Note also that the US State Department asks for an unedited photo and tells applicants not to use digital tools to alter it. Cropping to a required size is not retouching, but read your own portal's wording before you rely on any tool, including this one.