🇬🇧 United Kingdom passport photo size
35 × 45 mm, head 29–34 mm from chin to crown, on a plain cream or light grey background.
- Photo size
- 35 × 45 mm 1.38 × 1.77 in
- Head height
- 29–34 mm 64–76% of the height
- Background
- Plain cream or light grey
- At 300 DPI
- 413 × 531 px 827 × 1063 at 600 DPI
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.
The requirements in full
| Photo size | 35 × 45 mm (1.38 × 1.77 in) |
|---|---|
| Head height | 29–34 mm chin to crown, 64–76% of the photo height |
| Background | Plain cream or light grey |
| Pixels | 413 × 531 at 300 DPI · 827 × 1063 at 600 DPI |
| Expression | Neutral, mouth closed |
| Glasses | Allowed if there is no glare and the frames do not cover your eyes |
| How recent | Taken within the last month |
| How many | 2 identical photos |
| Digital upload | At least 600 x 750 px, between 50 KB and 10 MB, in colour, and unaltered by computer software. |
| Edited photos | Not accepted. HM Passport Office requires the photo to be "unaltered by computer software". |
| Home-printed photos | Accepted, if printed at the right physical size on photo paper. |
45 mm high by 35 mm wide, with the crown of the head to the chin between 29 mm and 34 mm - 64% to 76% of the height, not the 70-80% repeated across the web. The background must be plain cream or light grey, explicitly not pure white. A printed photo must have been taken in the last month, not the last six.
Printing it
How many 35 × 45 mm photos fit on each paper size, at true size.
| Paper | Photos | Layout | Edge to edge? |
|---|---|---|---|
| 4 × 6 in | 8 | 4 × 2 (turned) | 0.17 in margin |
| 3.5 × 5 in | 4 | 2 × 2 | 0.35 in margin |
| 5 × 7 in | 10 | 5 × 2 (turned) | 0.06 in margin |
| A4 | 32 | 8 × 4 (turned) | 0.12 in margin |
| US Letter | 36 | 6 × 6 | 0.12 in margin |
United Kingdom rejects photos altered with software
HM Passport Office requires the photo to be "unaltered by computer software".