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Ideal Digital Photos that can be converted into valid passport photos or Visa Photos (Click here for tips on how to take photos at home for converting them into Passport photos)

Customer feedback: You guys are great! Had to re-submit my passport photos, since those they took at Walgreens didn't come out clear enough... So when I found your website I thought it sounded like a good idea, and sure enough, it worked great! Thanks for excellent service! Amanda D. November 19, 2009

 

Your Digital Photos should meet following requirements:

X Your photo should NOT be a close-up. Face should be around 10%-20% of the photo or full shoulders (both) should be visible with some open space above the head. X Photo background should be light colored and uniform X Your photo should have enough resolutin. File size of the picture must be more than 50KB X Face in the photo should be uniformly exposed (One side side of the face should not be remarkably darker or lighter than the other) X Avoid shadows created by camera flash (We can fix some shadows but if the shadow is mixing with hair, we can not fix it)

Composition tip: -Imagine the photo you are taking is made up of 9 identical pieces/squares. The face has to be no bigger than one of those 9 squares and should be in the middle. The square in Green line shows how a Passport photo will be made out of it. Please do not crop the photo at your end. Let us do the cropping. (Click here for tips on how to take photos at home for converting them into Passport photos)

For Passport Photos: Good Digital Photos vs Bad Photos

Photo	Issue	Can we convert this into valid Passport Photos?	How to prevent this at your end
	Face is not evenly exposed. One side of the face darker compared to the other side	No	Force the Flash to be ON so face gets evenly exposed
	Face is not straight.	Yes	We can straighten the face and fix this issue.
	Not looking straight into Camera lens. Both ears not visible	No	Look straight into the lens of camera.
	Background is dark and is not uniform	No	Choose a white or light colored UNIFORM background
	Close-up. No margin on Top, or on Left of Right side of the Face	No	Do not take a Close up. Try to show around one half of the body in the photo. We will crop the photo and remove what we do not want.
	Bad Exposure. Head not straight	No	Keep head straight and eyes looking directly into camera while taking photos at home.
	No margin above hair. Overexposed photo	No	Take 2 or 3 photos with and without flash. Do trial and Error
	Nice portrait but background too dark. Might be copyright issues as you need consent of the photographer before you or we can reuse it.	No	Take a new photo against white background. Do not use photo taken by someone else. This may cause Copyright issues too.
Red Eye in the photo	Red Eye in the Photo	Yes	We can digitally fix it or use Red Eye fix that most new cameras offer.

Useful tips for taking nice digital photos

As an experienced and leading convertor of digital photos into passport photos, we recommend you to upload a photo on our website that has following features:

* Never take a close up. Try to include upper half of the body in the photo. (Please if that is too much, make sure your photo has full shoulders visible)
* Keep around 1 to 2 feet of distance between you and the background so there are no or minimum shadows created by camera flash. (Try holding camera in such a way that lens and flash are aligned vertically)
* Never crop a picture at your end. Let us do the cropping.
* Make sure the background is uniform and light colored (unless you are ordering photos for OCI/Overseas Citizenship of India)

Sample of digital pictures that make nice passport photos:

Sample Passport Photos

Uploaded Normal Photos	Converted to Passport Photos
	Passport photos for Babies aree difficult, right? Not with OnlinePassportPhoto.com! See how we converted into passport photo for a 4 month old baby.

Samples of pictures that can not be converted into valid passport photos:

* This will not work because there is not enough room above hair or below neck. Can not be converted into a good passport photo:

 

The one below would be difficult to convert into a good digital photo too:

Still Confused?

Still not sure about if we can convert your digital photo into passport photos for you? Email us your photos for pre-approval before you place your order

Sure. We understand that many people may like to make sure that their digital picture(s) can be converted into valid passport photos before they use their credit card and place an order.

Email your pictures to (Please remember to attach your pictures to the email as a File attachment instead of as a Photo attachment because some email services like Hotmail.com automatically reduces resolution of pictures attached as photos) and include your first name, last name, purpose of the photo (for US passport, Indian Passport photos, etc). Then we will look at your photos and email you back to let you know if we can convert them into great passport pictures so you can go ahead and place your order with us without any worries. (Tip: To save your time, you can also request us in your same email to email you back a PayPal invoice so you do not need to come back to our website to complete your order.)

If OnlinePassportPhoto finds that my uploaded photo can not be converted into good passport photos, what happens to my payment?

No Worries. If we find that the photo uploaded with your order can not be converted into valid passport or visa photos, we will e-mail you and ask you to e-mail us or upload again new digital photo(s). We will repeat this until we have a digital photo from you which can be converted into valid passport photos.

In worst case, if you are not able to provide us good digital photo(s), we will refund your payment.

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