Check a passport photo before you submit it
Get a plain-English report on a photo: head size in millimetres, eye line, sharpness, lighting, background and resolution, against 82 countries' rules.
Open a photo
It stays on this device. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no account, watermark or limit.
JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC. Drag a file here if you prefer.
Drag the blue line to the top of your hair, the red line to the bottom of your chin, and the green line to the centre of your face. The crop follows.
Every file carries its real print size, so a photo lab lays it out at the right dimensions instead of guessing 72 DPI.
- Photo size
- 50.8 × 50.8 mm 2.00 × 2.00 in
- Head height
- 25–35 mm 49–69% of the height
- Background
- White or off-white
- At 300 DPI
- 600 × 600 px 1200 × 1200 at 600 DPI
What gets checked
Each check reports a measurement, not a verdict badge, so you can see how close you are.
Head height
Chin to crown in millimetres, against the range the authority publishes. This is the measurement that fails the most photos.
Eye line
Where a country states one — the United States does — the distance from the bottom edge to your eyes is measured too.
Sharpness
Focus is measured across the face, not the whole frame, so a crisp background cannot rescue a soft portrait.
Exposure and even lighting
How bright the face is, and how different the two sides of it are — which is what a side window does to a photo.
Background
How uniform the area around your head is. A gradient or a shadow behind you shows up here before it shows up at the counter.
Resolution
The real DPI behind the print after cropping, which is usually far lower than the megapixel count suggests.
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