Can I make a 2x2 inch passport photo?

Yes. Choose the US Passport Photo preset to export a 600 by 600 pixel 2x2 inch photo at 300 DPI, which is the minimum size the US Department of State accepts.

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Passport photo size in pixels — 2×2 in, 35×45 mm, 50×70 mm by country

Every size below is a preset in the tool above, so the pixel figures are exactly what Resizo exports at 300 DPI. Printed sizes come from the issuing authority. Requirements can differ for paper photos, online renewals, visas, residence permits, and consular applications, so confirm the current rule on the official application site before submitting.

2×2 inch (600×600 px) — US passport, visa and Green Card

A US passport photo is 2 × 2 inches, which is 51 × 51 mm, or 600 × 600 pixels at 300 DPI. For digital uploads the US Department of State accepts any square image from 600 × 600 up to 1200 × 1200 px. The head must measure 1 to 1⅜ inches from chin to crown. The same square format covers US visas, Green Card and USCIS photos, the passport card, and most US state ID photos.

35×45 mm (413×531 px) — UK, EU, India and most of the world

35 × 45 mm is the most widely used passport photo size on earth — the UK, the Schengen area, India, Australia, Japan, and dozens more. At 300 DPI it is 413 × 531 pixels. It is a portrait format, not square, so a 2×2 in photo cannot be submitted in its place. Head height is usually specified in millimetres rather than as a percentage: 29–34 mm in the UK, 32–36 mm across the Schengen area.

Country or document	Printed size	Pixels at 300 DPI	Head height	Portal file limit
Americas
United States — passport, visa, Green Card, driver licence	2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm)	600 × 600	25–35 mm (50–69%)	DS-160: 240 KB
Canada — passport, PR	50 × 70 mm	420 × 540^‡	31–36 mm	Check IRCC portal
Brazil	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Mexico	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Argentina	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Colombia	40 × 50 mm	472 × 591	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
United Kingdom & Europe
United Kingdom — passport, visa, driving licence, BRP	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	29–34 mm	UKVI: 10 MB
EU / Schengen visa	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Varies by consulate
Germany	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
France	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Italy	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Spain — passport / DNI	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Netherlands	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Poland	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Sweden	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Switzerland	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
Russia	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Turkey	50 × 60 mm	591 × 709	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Asia Pacific
India — passport, visa / e-Visa	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	70–80% of frame	Seva: see the form
China — passport, visa	33 × 48 mm	390 × 567	28–33 mm	COVA: 40–120 KB
Hong Kong	40 × 50 mm	472 × 591	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Taiwan	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Japan	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
South Korea	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Pakistan	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Australia	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	Check portal
New Zealand	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Singapore	35 × 45 mm	400 × 514^‡	32–36 mm	Check ICA portal
Malaysia	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Philippines	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Indonesia	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Thailand	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Vietnam	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Middle East & Africa
United Arab Emirates	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check ICP portal
Saudi Arabia	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Egypt	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
South Africa	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check DHA portal
Nigeria	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check NIS portal
Kenya	2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm)	600 × 600	25–35 mm^†	Check portal
Morocco	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
ID cards, permits & standards
ISO / ICAO 35 × 45 mm biometric	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm	—
ICAO biometric — square crop	2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm)	600 × 600	50–69%	—
National ID card	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check issuer
Driver licence photo	2 × 2 in (51 × 51 mm)	600 × 600	50–69%^†	Check issuer
Student ID / employee badge	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	—	Check issuer
Visa application, work permit, resident permit	35 × 45 mm	413 × 531	32–36 mm^†	Check portal
Print sheets
4 × 6 in sheet — 4 photos	4 × 6 in (10 × 15 cm)	1800 × 1200	—	For printing, not upload
5 × 7 in sheet — 6 photos	5 × 7 in (13 × 18 cm)	2100 × 1500	—	For printing, not upload
A4 sheet — 8 photos	A4 (210 × 297 mm)	2480 × 3508	—	For printing, not upload

^† Where the issuing authority does not publish its own chin-to-crown figure, the value shown is the common ICAO guidance for that format. Confirm on the official page before you submit. ^‡ Canada and Singapore publish a digital pixel minimum that is smaller than their printed size at 300 DPI — IRCC asks for at least 420 × 540 px, Singapore's ICA for exactly 400 × 514 px. Resizo's presets match the digital specification, which is the one the upload form checks.

Passport photo file size limits by portal (KB)

Getting the pixels right is only half the job. Most government upload forms also cap the file size, and the caps are far smaller than people expect — the US visa portal allows 240 KB, not the several megabytes a phone camera produces. Every figure below was read off the issuing authority's own page on 14 August 2026 and links to it. Where an authority does not publish a figure we say so rather than guessing. Portals do change these, so check the form before you upload.

Portal	File cap	Pixel spec	Hit the cap
US DS-160 (visa) — travel.state.gov	240 KB	600 × 600 – 1200 × 1200 px, square, JPEG	Compress to 240 KB
India Passport Seva — passportindia.gov.in	Check the form^§	JPEG — see the form^§	Compress to any figure
India OCI — ociservices.gov.in	200 KB	200 × 200 – 900 × 900 px, square, JPEG	Compress to 200 KB
China COVA (visa) — visaforchina.cn	40–120 KB	354 × 472 px, JPEG	Compress to 120 KB
UK Visas & Immigration — gov.uk	50 KB – 10 MB	600 × 750 px minimum, JPEG	Rarely needs compression

^§ Passport Seva is the one portal here whose upload specification we could not read off a government page — the portal renders its help through an application we cannot cite, and the figures circulating elsewhere all trace back to other photo tools rather than to the Ministry. Rather than repeat a number we cannot stand behind, we leave the row blank: read the cap off the upload form itself, then use the compressor to hit it. Every other row links to the authority it came from.

Resize the photo here first, then bring it under the cap. Resizo bisects JPEG quality to hit an exact KB or MB figure and only shrinks the pixel dimensions if quality alone cannot get there, so the 600 × 600 or 413 × 531 frame the portal expects stays intact. Both tools run in your browser, so the photo is never uploaded to either one.

Open Compress to Target Size Why these caps are so small

Passport photo head size — how much of the frame the face should fill

Head placement is the rule most often missed, and it is the one a reviewer can check with a ruler. Two conventions are in use: the US measures the head as a share of frame height, while most 35 × 45 mm formats give a chin-to-crown measurement in millimetres.

1 Head height: 50–69% of the frame On a US 2 × 2 in photo that is 1 to 1⅜ inches (25–35 mm) from chin to crown. UK photos ask for 29–34 mm of a 45 mm frame; Schengen photos 32–36 mm. Use the Zoom control to grow or shrink the head inside this band.
2 Eye line: a little above centre The US requires the eyes to fall between 56% and 69% of the way up from the bottom edge. Drag the crop preview, or use the Vertical control, to move the eyes onto that line.
3 Margins: leave room above the hair The crown must not touch or be cut by the top edge, and shoulders should be visible at the bottom. A tight crop that clips the hair is a rejection, not a rounding error.

How to take a compliant passport photo at home

A resize tool can set the frame, pixels, background fill, and export format. Acceptance still depends on the original photo quality, pose, lighting, and the official rule for your application.

Before you upload

Use a recent, sharp, front-facing photo with both eyes visible.
Stand in even light and avoid shadows behind the head or under the chin.
Use a plain white, off-white, or light background unless the application says otherwise.

While cropping

Choose the exact country, visa, ID, or print-sheet preset first.
Use Fill for strict passport crops and Fit only when the full image must remain visible.
Keep the head inside the head-height band, with natural shoulders and space above the hairline. See the head-height rule

Before submission

Download JPG for most online portals unless PNG or WebP is specifically accepted.
Check the portal file-size cap before uploading — the US DS-160 allows only 240 KB, and a photo over the limit is rejected without being looked at. See the per-portal caps
Do not use altered, filtered, or AI-edited photos. Why crop-only matters

Crop-only editing — compliant with the no-AI-retouching rules

The US Department of State rejects photos that have been digitally altered or enhanced, and other authorities have adopted the same position. That makes the current wave of AI photo tools a liability rather than a shortcut. Resizo does four things to your photo — crop, resize, rotate, and fill behind the frame — and nothing else.

What Resizo does

Crops and scales to the exact pixel dimensions of a preset.
Rotates up to 15° to straighten a tilted shot.
Fills behind the frame — the letterbox area in Fit mode, and transparent pixels in a PNG.
Exports JPG, PNG, or WebP at 300 DPI, or a print sheet.

What it never does

No AI retouching, smoothing, beautifying, or blemish removal.
No generative background replacement or removal — the fill only reaches areas your photo does not cover.
No AI-generated or "enhanced" faces, and no reshaping of features.
No server-side processing you cannot see: everything runs in your browser.

The practical consequence is that the background must already be plain in the photo you upload. If the wall behind you is patterned or shadowed, no amount of resizing fixes it — retake the photo against a blank wall in even light. That is a limitation, and it is the same limitation the rules impose on everyone.

Private browser-based processing

Your photo is read with FileReader, drawn to HTML canvas, and exported from local memory with canvas.toBlob(). The editor does not need to upload your passport, visa, or ID image to a server.

No account or watermark

Resize and download without sign-up, email capture, or output watermarks.

Works on mobile

Upload from a phone camera roll, adjust the crop with touch controls, and save the finished file.

Use official guidance

Resizo helps with sizing and cropping, but the issuing authority has the final decision on acceptance.

Passport photo standards: DPI, resolution, and what reviewers actually check

Last reviewed on 14 August 2026 by the Resizo editorial team, against the primary sources listed at the end of this section.

DPI vs pixel dimensions — what portals actually check

Passport authorities specify photo sizes in millimetres (35 × 45 mm, 50 × 70 mm) or inches (2 × 2 in), not pixels. The conversion depends on DPI: a 35 × 45 mm photo at 300 DPI is 413 × 531 pixels; the same photo at 200 DPI is 276 × 354 pixels. 300 DPI is the figure the authorities publish for printed photos, and it is what Resizo exports.

For an online upload, though, the DPI value stored in the file is not what gets validated. The portal reads the pixel dimensions and the file size in bytes. A 600 × 600 px JPEG passes the DS-160 check whether its metadata says 300 DPI or 72 DPI. DPI matters when the photo will be printed at a specific physical size — which is why the two things are worth keeping separate in your head.

Acceptance rules: what reviewers check

Beyond dimensions, the published rules are consistent across the major authorities: the head must sit inside a specified height band, the eyes must be level and centred horizontally, the background must be plain and light with no shadows or patterns, the expression must be neutral with both eyes open and the mouth closed, and the photo must be recent — taken within the last six months. The US and the UK both require glasses to be removed. Head coverings are permitted only for religious or medical reasons, and must not obscure the face.

Two limits are worth being blunt about. Resizo's background option fills in behind your photo; it does not remove shadows or replace a background that is already in the image. And no resizing tool can fix a photo taken in poor light. Both are properties of the original shot, so the fastest route to an accepted photo is usually to retake it against a blank wall facing a window, then crop it here.

File size and submission platform limits

Online portals cap the file size, and the caps are much tighter than the "a few megabytes" people assume. The US DS-160 visa portal accepts a maximum of 240 KB. India's OCI portal allows 200 KB, and China's COVA portal 40–120 KB. UK Visas and Immigration is the outlier at 10 MB — though it has a floor of 50 KB, so an over-compressed file fails there too. A 300 DPI 35 × 45 mm photo exported at JPEG quality 95 typically lands around 80–150 KB, so it clears most caps — but a phone photo cropped to 1200 × 1200 px will not.

See the per-portal caps above · Compress to an exact figure

On pixel dimensions, portals differ in whether they want an exact size or a range. The US Department of State accepts any square image from 600 × 600 to 1200 × 1200 px, not only 600 × 600. Resizo's US preset outputs 600 × 600 at 300 DPI, the smallest accepted size, which is also exactly 2 × 2 inches when printed. India's OCI portal takes the same shape of rule — any square image from 200 × 200 to 900 × 900 px. Others publish a single fixed size: Singapore's ICA asks for exactly 400 × 514 px. Always confirm the requirement on the official page for your application before uploading.

Primary sources

Every figure on this page is taken from the issuing authority rather than from a third-party summary. Requirements change, so treat these as the authority and this page as a convenience:

Passport photos — U.S. Department of State (2 × 2 in, head height, no digital alteration)
Digital image requirements — U.S. visas (600 × 600 to 1200 × 1200 px, 240 KB)
Photos for passports — GOV.UK (35 × 45 mm, 29–34 mm head height)
OCI application FAQ — Bureau of Immigration, India (200 × 200 to 900 × 900 px square, 200 KB, photo and signature)
Photo upload FAQ — Chinese Visa Application Service Center (354 × 472 px, 40–120 KB, JPEG)
Passport Seva — Government of India (35 × 45 mm; its upload cap is not published in a form we can cite — see ^§ above)
Photo requirements — IRCC, Canada (50 × 70 mm printed, 420 × 540 px digital minimum)
ICAO Doc 9303, Machine Readable Travel Documents — the biometric portrait standard the 35 × 45 mm formats derive from

Passport photo resizer FAQ

Quick answers for the most common passport-size, 2x2 inch, and 35x45 mm photo workflows.

Does this passport photo tool upload my image?

No. The photo is processed entirely in your browser using HTML5 Canvas, so it never leaves your device and is not uploaded to any server.

Can I make a 2×2 inch passport photo?

Yes. Choose the US Passport Photo preset to export a 600 by 600 pixel 2×2 inch photo at 300 DPI, which is the minimum size the US Department of State accepts.

Does the US require exactly 600×600 pixels?

No. The US Department of State accepts square digital photos from 600×600 up to 1200×1200 pixels. Resizo's US preset outputs 600×600 at 300 DPI, which is the smallest accepted size and also prints as a 2×2 inch photo. Anything square inside that range is valid, so long as the file is a JPEG within the portal's size cap.

Can I create a 35×45 mm passport photo?

Yes. The tool includes 35×45 mm presets (413×531 px at 300 DPI) for the UK, EU and Schengen, India, Australia, Japan, and many other passport or visa formats.

What file size do online passport portals allow?

It varies by portal and the caps are much smaller than most people expect. The US DS-160 visa portal accepts JPEG up to 240 KB, India's OCI portal up to 200 KB, and China's COVA visa portal 40–120 KB. UK Visas and Immigration is far more generous at 10 MB, though it rejects anything under 50 KB too. India's Passport Seva publishes no upload specification we could cite to, so read that cap off the form itself. Because these caps change, confirm the figure on the portal before uploading, and use Resizo's Compress to Target Size tool to hit an exact KB number without changing the pixel dimensions.

What DPI and resolution does a passport photo need?

300 DPI is the usual requirement for printed passport photos, and it is what Resizo exports. At 300 DPI a US 2×2 inch photo is exactly 600×600 pixels, and a 35×45 mm photo is about 413×531 pixels. For digital uploads what matters is the pixel count and the file size, not the DPI value stored in the file — portals check dimensions and bytes.

How much of the frame should my head fill?

For a US 2×2 inch photo the head must measure between 1 and 1⅜ inches from chin to crown, which is 50 to 69 percent of the frame height. Most 35×45 mm formats, including the UK and the Schengen area, ask for 29 to 34 mm chin to crown instead — roughly 65 to 76 percent of the frame. Use the zoom and vertical controls to place the head inside that band, and keep the eyes a little above the middle of the frame.

What background color should a passport photo have?

A plain white or off-white background is required for most countries, including the US, UK, and India. Photograph the subject against a blank wall in even lighting with no shadows. Resizo's background option fills the area behind your photo — the letterboxing in Fit mode and any transparent pixels in a PNG. It does not remove or replace a background that is already in the picture, so start from a photo taken against a plain wall.

Can I use AI to edit a passport photo?

No. The US Department of State rejects photos that have been digitally enhanced or altered, and other authorities take the same line. That rules out AI retouching, beautify filters, generative background replacement, and AI-generated headshots. Resizo only crops, resizes, rotates, and fills behind the frame — it never alters your face or your background, so its output stays inside those rules.

How do I print passport photos at home?

Export at 300 DPI, then pick a print-sheet preset instead of a single photo. Resizo's 4×6 Sheet lays out four photos on a 4×6 inch (10×15 cm) print, the 5×7 Sheet lays out six, and the A4 Sheet lays out eight, each with cutting borders. Print on glossy photo paper at a lab or a home photo printer, then cut along the borders.