Passport photo maker

• Choose the country. The tool finds your face and places the frame on it, with your head in the oval: the top of your head at its top, your chin at its bottom. Move or size the frame if it needs it.
• Got several photos? Click each in the list to fit its frame. Press “Make photos”: you get each photo at its exact print size and a 6 × 4 in sheet with copies to print at a photo shop or at home.
• Nothing in the picture is changed: no new background, no smoothing, no filters. Both the US and the UK refuse photos that were edited, so the tool only cuts and sizes.
• The result is checked: one face, head size, face in the middle, head straight, enough pixels to print sharp, and a light, plain background. What it can’t judge, such as your expression, focus or glasses, is up to you.

• Stand in front of a plain white or light wall, about half a meter away from it, so you cast no shadow on it.
• Face a window in daylight, or have even light from the front; avoid a ceiling lamp right above you.
• Have someone else take it from about 1.5 meters away at eye level, with your head and shoulders in the picture. Selfies at arm’s length distort the face.
• Look straight at the camera with your mouth closed, eyes open, hair off your face, and glasses off.

The sheet holds 2 copies of a US photo or 8 of a UK photo. Order it as a 4 × 6 in (10 × 15 cm) photo print at a photo shop or pharmacy kiosk, or print it on photo paper at home at 100% (“actual size”), not “fit to page”. Then cut along the gray lines.

Measure one printed copy with a ruler before you cut the others: it should be exactly the size in the table above.

Online applications take a digital photo with rules of their own. The UK asks for an uncropped photo and crops it for you; the US asks for the original photo, unedited. This tool makes printed photos, for paper forms.