PassportNinja: passport photos from your couch
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, ready to download or print at the correct passport size every time. It's a passport size photo maker you can use to make passport size photo online free, straight from your couch, no photo booth queue. Whether you call the result a passport size picture or a passport photo, the crop and background rules are identical.
Open PassportNinja (free) → no sign-up · no watermark · uploads deleted automatically
What it 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. Search passport image size or passport pic size — 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 automatically with the country picker, so it always outputs the right size passport photo without a ruler. Turning a phone shot into the size of photograph for passport rules require is the whole point — photo to passport size, one crop. The US format alone is a 2x2 picture size, and the tool gets you there without a ruler.
- 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 covers both the 2×2 inch US-style format and the indian passport photo size rules for the 51×51 mm domestic version, which differ from the US and UK formats 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 file
1 Take a photo
Face the camera straight-on in even light, neutral expression, nothing covering the face.
2 Choose the document
The tool crops to that format's official dimensions and swaps the background.
3 Use or print
Digital file for online forms, or a print sheet for the photo counter.
Honest expectations
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.
Goes well with
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.
By Sam Ridder — I build and run ShinobiTools on my own hardware, on my own. Who I am.