UK passport photo, 35 × 45 mm
The UK photo is 45 × 35 mm with the head 29–34 mm chin to crown, on cream or light grey — not white. Crop and check yours here, free.
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
- 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
Three routes, and they do not want the same file
This is the part almost every UK passport photo page leaves out.
Two identical 35 × 45 mm prints
Taken in the last month, on plain white photographic paper with no border, loose rather than attached to the form. Use the crop above and the print sheet.
Upload the photo uncropped
GOV.UK says: "Do not crop your photo - it will be done for you." Upload the full frame, at least 600 × 750 px and between 50 KB and 10 MB. The tool has a separate download for it.
A photo code
You type a code into the application instead of uploading anything. No website can give you one — including this one — so if that is the route you want, it is a trip out.
The background is not white
HM Passport Office asks for a plain cream or light grey background, and for no shadows on your face or behind you. Pages that tell you to use white are repeating an assumption; the requirement is on GOV.UK.
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