PassportNinja: passport photos from your couch

Last updated: September 2026

Photo booths charge serious money for four tiny prints, and studios more still. PassportNinja turns a plain phone snapshot into a photo with the correct dimensions for passports, ID cards and visa applications: background swapped to the required color, head positioned to size, ready as an id photo for any document that needs one. You get two things back from one snapshot: a single digital file at the exact size the authority asks for, and a print sheet that fits a standard photo print, so the same picture covers both the online application and the counter. Up to six photos at a time, and the crop and background rules do not change between document types: only the measurements do.

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What PassportNinja does

• Correct size, automatically: pick your document (US passport, Schengen visa and many more); the tool detects your face and crops to the official dimensions. Whether you searched for passport image size or passport pic size, it is the same question, and the crop step already knows the number for whichever country you pick. Passport size photo dimensions run 2×2 inches for the US down to 35×45 mm for the UK, switching with the country picker, so the output is always the right size passport photo. Turning a phone shot into the size of photograph for passport rules require is the whole point: photo to passport size, in one crop. The US format alone is a 2x2 picture size, and no ruler is needed to get there.
• Background replacement: your living-room wall becomes the plain light background the format asks for.
• Digital + print: download the single photo for online applications, or a print sheet with multiple copies for classic paper prints.

Per country, precisely

"A passport photo" means a different size, background and margin in every country: the site has the exact recipe per document, so you are not guessing at millimetres. Each guide spells out the passport id photo requirements for that country before you shoot:

• US passport photo is 2×2 inches (51×51 mm). UK passport photo is 35×45 mm: the same figure as Australia passport photo. Canada passport photo is bigger still, 50×70 mm. India passport photo follows the indian passport photo size rules: a 51×51 mm square, which is the same 2×2 inch US-style format and differs from the UK format above
• Schengen visa photo and China visa photo, the two strictest formats, with their extra rules spelled out.
• Baby passport photo guide, the special case every new parent hits: how to get a compliant photo of someone who cannot sit up yet.
• Passport photo size checker, verify a photo you already have before an application rejects it. It checks the passport size photo ratio too, not just pixel count, since a photo can be the right size and still the wrong shape.

Against the photo-booth or drugstore: those charge per sheet and re-shoot on rejection; here you retake for free until the checker is happy, and print at any supermarket photo kiosk for cents.

What happens to your photo in PassportNinja

What to expect from PassportNinja

The tool delivers the correct dimensions and background, but acceptance is always the issuing authority's decision, and their human requirements (expression, glasses, shadows, recency) are yours to meet. The site includes per-country guides on those rules, so read the one for your document before submitting.

Tools that pair with PassportNinja

Applying online? Strip the location data out of your photo first with the metadata remover. Need the rest of your paperwork digitized? ScanReviver turns phone photos of documents into clean scans.

India passport photo: the Indian passport photo size is a 2×2 inch (51×51 mm) square on a white background, the same size as the US one, and the same format is used for the e-Visa and OCI.

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