US passport photo, 2 × 2 inches
Make a 2 × 2 inch US passport photo in your browser. Head 25–35 mm, eyes 28–35 mm from the bottom, checked against the State Department's figures.
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
The two things that catch US applicants out
Do not let software change the photo
The State Department tells applicants not to change a photo using computer software, phone applications or filters, or artificial intelligence, and says it checks photos for AI use. Cropping and resizing to 2 × 2 inches are required and are not what that rule is about. Replacing the background is.
You may smile — with your mouth closed
The United States is the only authority on this site that allows it. Glasses are a different matter: they have not been accepted since 2016, and a medical exception needs a signed doctor's note. Uniforms and camouflage are out.
The government's own tool does one step of this
The State Department publishes a photo tool that crops a single 2 × 2. It does not lay copies out on a sheet, which is the step that makes a home-printed photo cheap — six of them fit one ordinary 4 × 6 print.
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Why you should not let software retouch your passport photo
They have just used a tool that replaced their background with white, and something they half-read has made them wonder whether that will get the application rejected.
What a passport photo actually costs
They are about to pay a counter price and want to know whether it is the going rate or whether they are being had.
Printing passport photos on a 4 × 6 sheet
They have a photo and want six of them on paper without paying counter prices, and every guide they have found skips the step where the print comes out the wrong size.
Why passport photos get rejected
Their application came back, or they are about to send one and want to know what they are risking.
Passport photo sizes, and why the head height matters more
They have been given a size in millimetres or inches and want to know what it means for the photo they are about to take.
Can you smile in a passport photo?
They are about to take the photo, phone in hand, and cannot remember whether smiling is allowed.