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Spain DNI / passport — 32×26 mm face area (30×40 mm) photo maker

30×40 mm at 600 dpi, head 70–80% of the frame, plain white behind you. Guides and a print sheet, on your device.

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30×40 mm · 709×945 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
30×40 mm
Pixels
709 × 945
Resolution
600 dpi
Head height
70–80% of image height
Background
Plain white

Also required

  • Head and shoulders, front view
  • No glasses with reflective lenses

Source: Ministerio del Interior. Requirements change — check the source before you submit.

Most people come here for the DNI, the compulsory identity card, applied for in person at a documentation office. Spain also states its photograph unlike its neighbours: the Interior Ministry asks for a recent colour picture of the face at 32 by 26 millimetres on a smooth white background, while this preset composes at 30 × 40 mm.

How much of the frame the head has to fill

On a 40 mm frame, 70 to 80 per cent of the height is 28 to 32 millimetres of head: a four-millimetre window, and a physically smaller target than the 45 mm frames used further north. Note where the top of the range lands — 32 mm, the number the ministry also gives for the photograph's height. The two are unrelated. One measures your head, the other the paper.

What gets this one sent back

  • White backgrounds punish white clothing: a pale shirt against a plain white wall leaves no shoulder line, and the head-and-shoulders view stops reading.
  • Reflective or darkening lenses are the named problem; tinted glasses are allowed only for serious visual impairment, so indoors take them off.
  • Composing at 30 × 40 and at 32 × 26 are separate jobs. Settle which size the office expects before scissors go near a print.

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

30×40 mm is a physical instruction; 709×945 pixels is what it becomes at 600 dpi. The head band follows the same conversion — 70–80% of 40 mm is 28.0–32.0 mm, or 662–756 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 30×40 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 white" and flagged if it is uneven.
  4. 04Download or printSave the 709×945 JPG, or take a print sheet with several copies laid out at true size.

Questions people actually ask

Why 30 × 40 mm here when the ministry lists 32 × 26 mm?
Different objects. The ministry's 32 by 26 millimetres is the print you hand over; 30 × 40 mm is the rectangle this tool composes and lays out for cutting. Framing rules are common to both — recent, colour, front view, plain white behind. Proportion is not: a head sized to 28–32 mm in a 40 mm frame cannot simply be trimmed to a 32 mm one, because it would then fill the picture.
Do I need to bring a photo, or will they take one?
Possibly not. Ministry documentation notes that where an office has automated equipment the picture can be taken at the point of application, and that an applicant may supply one or be photographed there. Preparation still counts, because that capture gives a single attempt at posture and expression — chin level, shoulders square, nothing reflective near the eyes.
What size does a Spain photo have to be?
30×40 mm, which is 709×945 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 white. 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 Spain 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 30×40 mm at the right size?
Use the print sheet — several copies laid out at true 30×40 mm with faint cut lines — and set the printer to 100% rather than "fit to page". At 600 dpi the file is 709×945 px, and a driver that shrinks by 3% turns 30 mm into something a ruler catches.

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