PixelVault’s passport photo maker turns an ordinary photo into a correctly sized passport or ID photo without uploading it anywhere. Most “passport photo online” services send your face to a server, add a watermark, and charge to remove it. PixelVault does the whole job in your browser: cropping, sizing, the background and the printable sheet all happen on your own device, so your photo — one of the most personal images you own — never leaves it.
Start by choosing an official size. US passport and visa photos are 2×2 inches (51×51 mm); the EU/Schengen, UK, India, Australia and Japan standard is 35×45 mm; China visas use 33×48 mm; and you can type any custom size in millimeters. A head-position guide is drawn over the frame — an oval for the head with eye and center lines — and you simply drag and zoom your photo until the head and eyes line up with it, which is what the requirements are really checking.
When it looks right, export at 300 or 600 DPI. Download a single photo at the exact pixel size, or a ready-to-print 4×6 inch or A4 sheet that tiles as many copies as fit with thin cut lines — take it to a pharmacy or kiosk, print, and cut. Add a plain white background with one click, or, for a photo shot against a busy background, remove the background first with PixelVault’s Remove Background tool and bring the clean cut-out here.
How it works
Your photo is drawn onto a canvas at the exact pixel dimensions the chosen document size implies (millimeters converted at your selected DPI). Your drag and zoom set how the photo is cropped into that frame, cover-fit so it always fills it. A background color is painted behind the photo first, which shows through wherever the image is transparent. For a sheet, the finished photo is composited multiple times onto a 4×6 inch or A4 canvas with cut guides. Everything is encoded with the browser’s built-in JPEG or PNG encoder.
Why local processing matters
A passport photo is your face plus, often, the document it is for — exactly the kind of image you should not hand to an unknown server. Doing it locally means there is nothing uploaded, stored or logged, no watermark to pay to remove, and no per-photo fee. It is also instant and works offline once the page has loaded.
Supported formats
- JPG — The usual format for passport and visa uploads; flattened onto the background.
- PNG — Lossless; keeps a transparent background when you choose “Keep”.
- Print sheet — 4×6 inch or A4 with tiled copies and cut lines, at 300 or 600 DPI.
Common use cases
- Make a US 2×2 inch passport or visa photo from a phone picture.
- Create a 35×45 mm EU, UK or Schengen visa photo at the right size.
- Print a 4×6 sheet of ID photos to cut out at home or a kiosk.
- Size a headshot to a country’s exact passport requirements in millimeters.