Convert a photo to passport size
You have a photo and you need it at passport size. The honest first answer is that there is no single passport size — the number depends on which document you are applying for, and the differences are large enough to get a photo rejected. This page tells you how to find yours, and then converts it in your browser without the file leaving your device.
Try a size now
Pick a size an authority actually uses, or type your own in millimetres, inches or pixels. The frame and the head guide update as you type, and the photo never leaves your browser.
Also 1.38 x 1.77 in. Changing the unit keeps the physical size, so switching between mm and inch never resizes your photo.
This is a size an authority actually publishes. Open that country's page to get its background colour, file limits and the rules that go with it — this studio only sets the frame.
There is no one passport photo size
Across the 131 specifications on this site there are 26 different frame sizes. The most common is 35 x 45mm, used by 77 of them — which is why so many converters offer it as “the” passport size — but that leaves 54 documents it would be wrong for.
| Frame size | Documents using it |
|---|---|
| 35 x 45mm | 77 |
| 40 x 60mm | 13 |
| 2 x 2in | 6 |
| 30 x 40mm | 4 |
| 50 x 50mm | 3 |
| 50 x 70mm | 3 |
| 40 x 50mm | 3 |
| 33 x 48mm | 2 |
| 50 x 60mm | 2 |
| 35 x 50mm | 2 |
| 28 x 36mm | 1 |
| 400 x 600px | 1 |
Find the document you are applying for in the full requirements table, then open its page — the editor there is already set to that country's frame, margins and file limits.
“Convert to ICAO standard” — what that actually means
ICAO Doc 9303 is the specification behind machine-readable travel documents, and it is written for the authorities that issue passports, not for the person submitting a photo. It governs the facial image stored in the chip and the quality that image must have for automated face matching to work. It does not publish a single applicant-facing print size, which is why you will not find an official “ICAO 35x45mm” anywhere on icao.int.
What people mean by “ICAO standard” in practice is the family of conventions that follow from it: a plain, evenly lit background, a neutral expression, both eyes open and unobstructed, no shadows across the face, and a head large enough in the frame for the eye positions to be measured reliably. Those hold nearly everywhere. The numbers — millimetres, head height, file size — come from the country, not from ICAO.
So converting “to ICAO standard” without naming a document is not really possible. Pick the document; the ICAO-derived rules come along with it.
What background colour do you actually need?
Background is the second thing people search for and the first thing they get wrong, because it is not a style choice — each authority names a colour, and a photo in the wrong one is refused however good the crop is. Here is what every route on this site actually specifies — counted from the specifications themselves, not from memory.
| Background | Routes |
|---|---|
| #FFFFFF | 125 |
| #EFEFEF | 4 |
| #E8E8E0 | 2 |
| #E8E8E8 | 2 |
| #FF0000 | 1 |
| #BEBEBE | 1 |
Looking for a blue background? None of the 135 document routes checked here specifies a blue background. Passport and visa photos are white, off-white or light grey almost everywhere, and several authorities explicitly refuse anything else. Blue backgrounds do appear on some employment, student and company ID photos — but if you are applying for a passport or a visa, a blue background is very likely to be rejected. Confirm against your own document's requirements before you make one.
How the conversion works
Everything runs in your browser. The photo is never uploaded, so there is no queue, no watermark and no account. Open the page for your document, drop the photo in, and the editor crops to that document's frame with its head-height guides in place. If the background needs replacing, there is a one-click removal step, and the export is filled with the colour that document requires rather than a colour you pick.
One caution worth reading before you start: several countries explicitly refuse edited photographs — Japan, Korea, Taiwan, New Zealand and Australia among them — and removing a background counts as editing. Where that applies, the page tells you so before you upload. Photograph yourself against a plain wall and use the tool only to crop and size.
Start here
Pick the document you are applying for. Every page states the figures it uses and links the official source they were checked against.