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Italy passport — 35×45 mm photo maker

35×45 mm at 600 dpi, head 70–80% of the frame, plain light behind you. Guides and a print sheet, on your device.

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35×45 mm · 827×1063 px · 600 dpi

Filestay is an independent tool and is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to any government or visa authority, including the U.S. Department of State. We make the file match the published technical requirements — acceptance is always the issuing authority's decision.

The official requirement

Photo size
35×45 mm
Pixels
827 × 1063
Resolution
600 dpi
Head height
70–80% of image height
Background
Plain light

Also required

  • ICAO-compliant framing
  • No shadows behind the head

Source: Polizia di Stato — passport. Requirements change — check the source before you submit.

Italian passport paperwork is a counter errand, and the photo is one item in a small pile. Post offices now take applications, so the picture often goes to a Poste Italiane clerk rather than the questura, with the duty stamp and a payment receipt — and that office asks for a recent fototessera, frontal, face uncovered, against white.

How much of the frame the head has to fill

ICAO-compliant framing is a phrase, not a measurement, so here is the measurement: 70 to 80 per cent of a 45 mm photograph is 31.5 to 36 mm from chin to crown, leaving 9 to 13.5 mm of height for hair above and jaw below combined. Italian consular guidance on the same standard puts the face at 70–80 per cent and asks for a high-definition print.

What gets this one sent back

  • Stand close to a wall and it throws a shadow; a metre of distance removes the dark halo these rules single out.
  • The post office wants white behind you. A cream or grey card that sails through elsewhere in Europe deserves reprinting first.
  • Office paper is a false economy at this size: the guidance calls for a high-definition print, and inkjet banding shows badly on plain tone.

Half a metre clear of the wall so your shadow falls behind you, camera at about 1.5 metres so the lens does not widen your nose, soft light from the front. Take several.

Getting the print right

35×45 mm is a physical instruction; 827×1063 pixels is what it becomes at 600 dpi. The head band follows the same conversion — 70–80% of 45 mm is 31.5–36.0 mm, or 744–850 pixels in the exported file.

No digital ceiling is published for this one, which means the print is the binding version and the file only has to survive being printed. Use the sheet rather than sending a single image to a shop — several copies at true size on one page costs the same and covers the spare everyone ends up needing.

Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — the default shrink is invisible to you and measurable to whoever checks it.

How it works

  1. 01Add a recent photoFacing the camera, plain wall behind. HEIC from an iPhone works directly.
  2. 02Frame it to 35×45 mmDrag and zoom until your head fills 70–80% of the frame height, matching the dashed guide.
  3. 03Check the warningsThe border area is measured against "plain light" and flagged if it is uneven.
  4. 04Download or printSave the 827×1063 JPG, or take a print sheet with several copies laid out at true size.

Questions people actually ask

What goes in the folder besides the photograph?
For the post office route, Poste Italiane lists one recent fototessera — under six months, frontal, uncovered, white behind — a valid identity document with a photocopy, a €73.50 duty stamp and the receipt for €42.70, plus €14.20 for the service. The finished passport is collected from the police office named on your receipt, or delivered. A questura publishes its own list.
Is a booth strip good enough, or better to make my own?
The published list describes the photograph, not the machine, so a booth is not disqualified. The difference is repeatability: a booth gives one attempt at your expression and prints on whatever stock it holds, while an image you have cropped yourself can be printed again until the background is genuinely flat and nothing has crept in behind your head.
What size does a Italy photo have to be?
35×45 mm, which is 827×1063 pixels at 600 dpi. The head, measured from the bottom of the chin to the top of the hair, must fill 70–80% of the photo height.
What background colour is required?
Plain light. The border area is measured and flagged if it is uneven. The background is never replaced digitally — a cut-out edge is visible and gets photos rejected.
Is my Italy photo uploaded anywhere?
No — the crop and the JPEG encode both run in this browser tab. A biometric image of your face is not a file to hand to a web service.
How do I print 35×45 mm at the right size?
Use the print sheet — several copies laid out at true 35×45 mm with faint cut lines — and set the printer to 100% rather than "fit to page". At 600 dpi the file is 827×1063 px, and a driver that shrinks by 3% turns 35 mm into something a ruler catches.

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