Passport photo questions.

No. The file is read by the browser, cropped on a canvas, and saved straight to your downloads. There is no upload endpoint: open this page, switch off your network, and it still works.

A recent, sharp, front-facing photo against a plain wall, taken at arm’s length or by someone else. Fill the frame with your head and shoulders, no filters, no strong shadows. The crop can fix the framing; it cannot fix blur.

Yes. The tool applies the phone’s orientation tag, so a portrait shot stays portrait. If your browser cannot read a HEIC file, export it as JPG first and drop it in again.

No, and it does not pretend to. Replacing a background badly is a common reason photos are rejected. Stand about a metre from a plain light wall, facing a window, and let the camera do the work.

The size, aspect and head-height guides follow the published rules, but acceptance is decided by the authority. Check the source linked on your country’s page, especially rules about glasses, head coverings and expression.

Some applications still want prints. The sheet places as many copies as fit on a 6×4 inch page at 300 DPI, with cut marks, so a photo shop or a home printer can produce them without resizing anything.

300 pixels per inch is the print standard most photo labs assume. At that density a 35 × 45 mm photo is 413 × 531 px: enough detail for a face at print size, small enough to upload.