Passport & ID Photo Cropper — Free Aspect Ratio Tool
Crop a passport, visa, or ID photo to the exact official dimensions — US, UK, EU, Canada, India, China, and more — with live mm/inch/px readouts. Nothing is uploaded or saved.
What it does
Upload a photo (or several — it queues them one at a time) and crop it to an exact, official passport, visa, ID card, or document standard. Pick a country’s spec from the dropdown, drag the locked-ratio crop box into place, and export at the correct pixel dimensions for your chosen print resolution. Nothing is uploaded, and nothing about the photo is kept after you close the tab — passport and ID photos are sensitive enough that this tool deliberately skips the “remembers your work” behavior most of the other tools here have.
How it works
Every preset on this page is a real government or ISO specification, not a rough guess:
| Preset | Real-world size |
|---|---|
| US / India Passport or Visa | 2 × 2 in |
| UK / EU / Schengen / Australia / Japan Passport | 35 × 45 mm |
| Canada Passport | 50 × 70 mm |
| China Passport | 33 × 48 mm |
| ID card / driver’s license (ISO 7810 ID-1) | 85.60 × 53.98 mm |
| Tax document (US Letter / A4) | 8.5 × 11 in / 210 × 297 mm |
Picking a preset locks the crop box to that exact aspect ratio, so whatever you drag out is already correctly proportioned — there’s no separate “fit vs. fill” decision to make, because a ratio-locked crop is inherently a fill. The output pixel size is computed from the real-world millimeter dimensions at your chosen resolution (150/300/600 DPI), using the standard 25.4mm-per-inch conversion — 2 × 2 in at 300 DPI comes out to exactly 600 × 600 px, for example. If a photo was shot sideways, the quick rotate buttons turn it 90°/180°/270° before you crop, and the crop box is redrawn fresh each time since rotating changes which pixels are “natural” coordinates.
You can also skip the presets entirely with a custom width:height ratio or an exact pixel size, useful for a country or document type that isn’t in the built-in list.
How to use it
- Drop in one or more photos — each one gets its own thumbnail in the queue at the top.
- Choose a preset (or a custom ratio/exact size) and a DPI from the sidebar; the reference box shows the exact output size in mm, inches, and pixels.
- Click a queued thumbnail to make it active, then drag the crop box into place. Use the rotate buttons first if the photo needs straightening.
- Click “Export this photo” to review, rename, and download it — it gets marked done in the queue.
- Once you’ve exported everyone you need, use “Download all done as .zip” to grab them together.
FAQ
Will this photo pass official passport/visa requirements? This tool gets the dimensions exactly right, which is the part most people get wrong (submitting a 2×3 photo instead of 2×2, for instance). It does not check lighting, background color, head position, or expression — those rules vary by country and are worth double-checking against your issuing authority’s current guidelines separately.
Why is there no “auto-detect my face and center it” option? Automatic face-centering on a passport photo is exactly the kind of thing that looks fine until it’s subtly wrong on the one photo you actually needed to be right — and a slightly-off crop can get an application rejected. Dragging the crop box yourself takes a few seconds and guarantees you can see exactly what’s being submitted.
Does this tool save my photos? No. Unlike most tools on this site, this one deliberately does not persist anything to your browser’s storage between visits — refresh the page and you start over. That’s intentional, given what these photos usually are.
What DPI should I use? 300 DPI is the standard most passport photo printers and online passport-photo print services expect, and it’s the default here. Use 600 if you know your printer or service specifically asks for it; 150 is enough for on-screen/digital-only submissions.
Can I crop a full document, not just a face photo? Yes — the US Letter and A4 presets are there for scanning a tax document or ID card page to a standard page size rather than a passport-photo size.
Related tools
For a crop that doesn’t need to match an official standard, the plain Crop tool gives you a freeform box instead of a locked ratio. If you need to resize a photo without cropping it at all, Resize will do that, and Rotate / flip handles straightening beyond the quick 90° steps built into this tool.