Home › Blog
Everything we know about taking, sizing, retouching and printing passport and visa photos — written for people who would rather get it right the first time than pay for a reshoot.
Every guide here is based on how the Passport Room photo maker actually works and on the published rules of the passport offices the tool supports. No fluff, no invented statistics, and no claims that any photo is guaranteed to be accepted — the final call always belongs to the office processing your application.
US 2×2 in, UK 35×45 mm, Canada 50×70 mm, China visa 33×48 mm and more — the exact dimensions, head-height rules and background colours for the sizes Passport Room supports, plus how to resize any photo to a custom millimetre size without stretching your face.
Published November 2026 · Passport Room guides
The hardest ID photo there is. How to photograph a newborn, a six-month-old or a wriggling toddler at home, which rules actually relax for infants, and how to crop a baby photo to a compliant 2×2 inch or 35×45 mm frame.
Published November 2026 · Passport Room guides
Lighting, distance, background and expression — the five reasons home-taken passport photos get rejected, and how to avoid each one with a phone camera, a plain wall and daylight. Includes a pre-flight checklist to run before you size the photo.
Published November 2026 · Passport Room guides
Why "fit to page" ruins a passport photo, what 300 DPI actually means in millimetres, how a print sheet turns one file into six correctly sized copies, and where to print — home printer, photo kiosk or online lab.
Published November 2026 · Passport Room guides
Can ChatGPT make a passport photo? Should you upload your face to a passport photo website at all? How on-device AI background removal differs from server-side editing, and the questions to ask any AI photo tool before you hand over a portrait.
Published November 2026 · Passport Room guides
All the guides above assume the free passport photo maker, which runs the AI background removal, face enhancement and print-sheet layout entirely inside your browser. Read the feature list for the details, the editor walkthrough for the adjustment panel, or the AI roadmap for what is being worked on next.