Convert Any Photo to Passport Size: Crop, Resize and Fix the Background

Already have a photo you like? Upload it above and the converter turns it into a passport photo. It finds your face, crops the picture so your head is the right size, checks the background and resizes the result to your country's official dimensions. You don't need to retake anything if the original photo is good enough.

Upload a Photo You Already Have

1. Choose your country. The pixel size shown under the list is the size of the converted photo.
2. Upload the picture. Any JPEG or PNG works, and most browsers also accept iPhone HEIC photos. Your browser re-saves the photo before uploading, which removes hidden metadata such as GPS location.
3. Wait a moment. Converting can take up to a minute. Keep the page open until your result appears.
4. Check and download. Your result opens on its own page, with your head height and position measured so you can spot a bad crop before you print or upload it.

The photo is uploaded over an encrypted connection, because face detection and background checks run on a server. Your result page expires after 7 days.

What the Converter Fixes Automatically

Cropping to the Correct Head-to-Frame Ratio

Every country sets how much of the photo your head should fill. For a U.S. passport photo, your head must measure 1 to 1⅜ inches from chin to top of hair inside a 2 × 2 inch frame, which is 50–69% of the photo's height. The converter finds your face and the top of your head, then crops and scales the photo so your head lands in the right range for the country you chose, with the face centered.

Replacing a Busy Background with Plain White

Most passport photos need a plain, light background. The converter checks yours. If it doesn't pass, the converter may replace it with a plain, even background, and the result page says clearly when it has. Some agencies don't accept photos changed by software, so a photo taken against a plain white wall is still the safest choice.

Correcting Tilt, Exposure and Color Balance

The converter doesn't straighten a tilted head or change brightness or color. Those changes alter how you look, and agencies such as the U.S. Department of State reject photos edited with software, filters or AI. If your head is tilted, your face is too dark or shadowed, or the colors look wrong, retake the photo instead:

• Face the camera with your head level and your shoulders square.
• Stand facing a window with indirect daylight, not under a ceiling light.
• Turn off filters, beauty modes and portrait effects before you take the picture.

Which Existing Photos Can Be Converted

A good candidate is a recent color photo of you looking straight at the camera with both eyes open, in even light, with nothing covering your face. Glasses are not allowed in U.S. passport photos, so a photo of you wearing them won't work for a U.S. application.

Resolution and Sharpness Minimums

The converter can shrink a photo but can't add detail that isn't there. As a rule of thumb, your head in the original should be at least as many pixels tall as it will be in the result. For a U.S. photo (600 × 600 pixels), that's about 300–415 pixels from chin to top of hair. For a large output such as Canada's 1200 × 1800 pixels, you need a much bigger original. A full-resolution photo from a phone camera is usually plenty; a cropped screenshot or a photo saved from social media often isn't.

The photo must also be in focus. Blur, grain from low light and blocky compression get more obvious after cropping, not less.

Why Old or Heavily Filtered Photos Fail

• Age. U.S. passport and visa photos must have been taken within the last six months, and they must show how you look now. An older photo can't be fixed by converting it.
• Filters and retouching. Beauty filters, skin smoothing and portrait-mode blur change your features or the background in ways agencies reject.
• Scans of old prints. Scanned photos are often soft, faded or color-shifted, and the original may already be the wrong size and framing.

Choose the Output Size for Your Country

Pick your country in the converter and it sets the output size for you. Some common sizes:

The converter supports 60+ countries in all. For a U.S. passport, visa or green card photo, the 2x2 photo maker explains the 2 × 2 inch size in detail.

Converter vs. Manual Cropping in a Photo Editor

You can crop a passport photo yourself in any photo editor. You'll need to:

1. Look up your country's photo size and head-height range.
2. Set a crop box with the right proportions.
3. Measure your head against the frame and adjust the crop until it fits.
4. Export at the right pixel size, and check the background by eye.

Manual cropping gives you full control and keeps the photo on your device. The converter does the measuring for you: it detects your face, crops to the head-height rules for your country, checks the background and reports the measurements. Either way, the original photo has to follow the photo requirements, and the agency that receives your application makes the final decision.