Passport Size Photo Maker

Most passport and visa photo rejections have nothing to do with size — they happen because of the photo itself. Stand about half a metre in front of a plain, evenly lit wall (white or off-white works for almost every country) and have someone photograph you head-on at eye level, or prop your phone and use a timer. Avoid overhead lights that throw shadows under your eyes, and avoid standing too close to the wall, which creates a shadow ring behind your head. Look straight at the camera with a neutral expression, both ears visible where required, no heavy filters, and no glasses for US and Indian applications.

Take the photo in good resolution and crop afterwards — this tool locks the crop box to the exact ratio your preset needs, so a large, sharp source photo always beats a small pre-cropped one.

Indian government portals are strict about upload size: many exam and visa portals want a JPEG between 20 KB and 50 KB, and some passport seva flows cap the total around 100 KB. The compressor here works by lowering JPEG quality until the file fits your target, so the smaller the pixel dimensions you start with, the less quality it has to sacrifice. If a 50 KB target looks soft, crop to the exact required pixel size first (for example 350 × 350 px) and then compress — a correctly sized photo needs far less compression than a full-resolution camera image squeezed to the same KB.