One photo, a full A4 sheet — with cutting lines
The cyber café job, done yourself: upload a photo, drag and zoom to fit the face in the frame, pick a size (35×45 mm passport, 20×25 mm stamp, 51×51 mm visa) and download an A4 sheet. Cutting lines are printed on the sheet so trimming is easy.
The standard is 35 × 45 mm (3.5 × 4.5 cm). Passport applications, most government forms, PAN applications and school forms all use it. At 300 dpi that works out to roughly 413 × 531 pixels, which is why so many online forms ask for exactly that pixel size.
A few other sizes still come up: 25 × 35 mm on older forms, 20 × 25 mm for stamp-size photos on ID cards, and 51 × 51 mm (2 × 2 inch) for US visa applications. All of them are in the size list on this page.
An A4 sheet holds around 30 passport-size photos, so one printout usually covers a whole family's form-filling for the year. A 4 × 6 inch photo-lab sheet holds 8 — that is the layout to choose if you are getting it printed at a photo studio rather than on your own printer.
The most common complaint about home-printed passport photos is that they come out slightly too small. That is almost never the photo's fault — it is the printer driver quietly shrinking the page to leave a margin.
In the print dialog look for Scale or Page Sizing and set it to 100%, 'Actual size' or 'None'. Anything that says 'Fit', 'Shrink oversized pages' or 'Fit to printable area' will make your photos undersized. Measure one photo with a ruler after the first print — it should be exactly 35 mm across.
Online applications usually want a digital photo under a size limit — commonly 20 KB to 50 KB — rather than a printed sheet. For that, use Image Resize & Compress, which has ready presets for a form photo (20–50 KB, 3.5 × 4.5 cm) and for a signature (10–20 KB). If the form asks for a PDF instead, run the photo through JPG to PDF.
In the print dialog choose Actual size / 100%. 'Fit to page' will shrink or stretch the photos.
The tool does not change the background. Use a photo taken against a white wall or one that already has a white background for the best result.
About 24 photos of 35×45 mm fit on A4. You can also choose 4, 6, 8, 12 or 16.
No. The cropping and the sheet are made by your own browser, on your own device. The photo never travels over the internet, which matters when it is going on an identity document.
Yes, and most people do. Stand about a metre and a half from a plain wall, have someone take the photo at eye level in daylight, and it will be sharper than an old scanned print.
White or very light grey is what most Indian departments ask for. This tool does not remove the background for you, so take the photo against a plain light wall to begin with.
Ordinary A4 paper is fine for form photos. If you want the glossy studio look, use photo paper and set the paper type in your printer settings to match, or take the 4 × 6 inch sheet to a photo lab.
They are faint corner lines between the photos. Line a ruler up with them and every photo comes out the same size with square edges — much cleaner than cutting by eye.
Not on a single sheet — the tool works from one photo at a time. Make two sheets and print them separately.
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