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Make a 35 × 45 mm photo

Schengen visa and European passport size, with the head filling the frame the way the rules ask.

Make a 35 × 45 mm passport or Schengen visa photo from a photo of yourself, plus a 4 × 6 print sheet with eight copies. It is free, needs no account and adds no watermark, and your files are not uploaded: everything runs in your browser on your device. The first run downloads the face finder, the cut-out model and the WebAssembly engines that run them (about 46 MB in all) to your browser, and after that the tool works offline.

Drop a photo of yourselfor click to choose a file.
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    Stand in front of a plain white or light wall if you can: some offices reject photos whose background was changed by software. Replacing it is here for when that is not possible. The first photo downloads the face finder, the cut-out model and their WebAssembly runtime once (about 46 MB in all).

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    Your files are processed on this device and never sent to a server. Reload the page to clear everything from memory.

    35 × 45 mm is the most widely used passport photo size in the world. Schengen visa applications use it, as do passports and ID cards in Germany, France, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands and most other European countries, and it is common across Asia, Africa and Australia too. It follows the ICAO standard for biometric photos, where the head, chin to crown, fills about 70 to 80 percent of the photo’s height: 32 to 36 mm.

    Here your face and the top of your hair are found by two models running in your browser, and the photo is scaled so the head measures about 34 mm, centred, with room for the shoulders below. You get a single photo at 600 pixels per inch for online forms, and a 4 × 6 inch sheet (10 × 15 cm) with eight copies to print at any photo lab.

    Country rules differ in the details, such as background colour, whether a slight smile is allowed, and whether digital photos must come from an approved photographer, as in Germany since 2025. Check the rules of the country you are applying to before you print.

    How it works

    1. Take a photo facing the camera, neutral expression, eyes open, in front of a plain light wall, with space above your head.
    2. Drop the photo here, and keep the background or replace it with white or light grey.
    3. Download the single photo, or the 10 × 15 cm sheet to print and cut along the grey lines.

    In your browser, not on a server

    Two open models run in your tab. MediaPipe’s BlazeFace face detector (Apache 2.0) finds your eyes and mouth, from which the chin is estimated, and ISNet running on onnxruntime-web finds the outline of your head, whose highest point is the top of your hair. The photo is scaled so the head fills the middle of the allowed range, drawn at 600 pixels per inch, and tiled onto a 4 × 6 inch sheet at 300 pixels per inch with cut lines.

    Compared with upload-based tools: Passport photo sites and apps upload a picture of your face to crop it, and many charge to download the result or to remove a watermark. A face photo for an identity document is exactly the file you want to keep to yourself. Here it never leaves your device, and the print sheet costs whatever your local photo counter charges for a 4 × 6.

    Verify it yourself. Give the page a short while after your first run to save itself for offline use, then turn off Wi-Fi or switch to airplane mode and run the tool again. Or open your browser's developer tools (F12, or Cmd-Option-I on a Mac), pick the Network tab, and watch it while you convert. The panel above does the same count for you.

    Questions

    Is 35 × 45 mm the same as a Schengen visa photo?

    Yes. All Schengen countries ask for 35 × 45 mm with the head 32 to 36 mm from chin to crown, following the ICAO standard. Some consulates add their own rules on background colour, so check the page of the country you are applying to.

    Does it work for a UK passport?

    The size matches, but the UK passport office asks for photos unaltered by computer software, and printed ones that are not cut down from a larger photo, so a photo booth or photo shop is the safer choice for a UK application.

    Can I use this for a German passport?

    Not for a new application in Germany: since May 2025 German passport and ID photos must be taken digitally by a certified photographer or at the office. For visas and other countries that accept printed photos, this works.

    What background colour should I choose?

    Most countries want a plain light background: white, off-white or light grey. Light grey is common for European ID documents; pick it if the rules ask for it. Keeping the photo’s own background is safest if the wall behind you was already plain.

    How many copies are on the print sheet?

    Eight, in two rows of four on a 4 × 6 inch (10 × 15 cm) print, with thin grey lines to cut along. Most applications ask for one or two, so a single print covers several forms.

    Is the file uploaded anywhere?

    No. There is no server in this process. The page is a static file and the work is done by code running inside your browser tab. Give the page a short while after your first run to save itself for offline use; then you can turn off Wi-Fi and it still works.

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