UK passport — 35×45 mm photo maker
35×45 mm at 600 dpi, head 64–75% of the frame, plain cream or light grey behind you. Guides and a print sheet, on your device.
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- No limits
- No signup
- Works offline
35×45 mm · 900×1200 px · ≤ 10240 KB JPEG
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
- 900 × 1200
- Resolution
- 600 dpi
- Head height
- 64–75% of image height
- Background
- Plain cream or light grey
- Digital file
- 900×1200 px, JPG, ≥ 50 KB, ≤ 10240 KB
Also required
- Head (chin to crown) 29–34 mm
- No shadow on the face or behind the head
- Digital uploads: at least 600×750 px
Source: GOV.UK — passport photo rules. Requirements change — check the source before you submit.
The UK is the odd one out on background: not white, but plain cream or light grey. The digital route is unusual too — an uploaded photo must be at least 50 KB as well as no more than 10 MB, a floor as well as a ceiling.
How much of the frame the head has to fill
The 45 mm height gives a head of 29 to 34 mm, a five-millimetre window narrower than it feels through a viewfinder. In the 900 by 1200 pixel upload that is 768 to 900 pixels. Everything else — clearance above the hair, neck and shoulders below the chin — shares the remaining 11 to 16 mm. A UK photo reads as a face and a collar.
What gets this one sent back
- Cream or light grey is the target, not brilliant white. A plain pale wall under soft frontal light usually lands there unaided.
- A floor as well as a ceiling: under 50 KB the upload is out of spec, so hard compression fails in the other direction.
- No shadow on the face, and none on the wall behind your head. Separation solves the second, not more light.
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.
Print and upload are two different specs
35×45 mm is a physical instruction; 900×1200 pixels is what it becomes at 600 dpi. The head band follows the same conversion — 64–75% of 45 mm is 28.8–33.8 mm, or 768–900 pixels in the exported file.
The upload adds a third constraint the print does not have: a byte budget. United Kingdom asks for 900×1200 px as JPG, no larger than 10240 KB, and no smaller than 50 KB. A file that satisfies the millimetres and fails the kilobytes is refused by the form before anyone reads the application, so the size search runs on every export here.
Print at 100%, not "fit to page" — the default shrink is invisible to you and measurable to whoever checks it.
How it works
- 01Add a recent photoFacing the camera, plain wall behind. HEIC from an iPhone works directly.
- 02Frame it to 35×45 mmDrag and zoom until your head fills 64–75% of the frame height, matching the dashed guide.
- 03Check the warningsThe border area is measured against "plain cream or light grey" and flagged if it is uneven.
- 04Download or printSave the 900×1200 JPG, or take a print sheet with several copies laid out at true size.