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Sample of 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)
Top Tips:
* Do not take close up of head only. Include at least upper half body or full shoulders. We can always trim what they do not need in Passport or Visa photos; but if you include less than what is needed, there is no way we can fill in/add missing things (like shoulders etc)!!!
Compare your photo to the following offical specs by USA. Your photo needs to include full shoulders and body below Chin level, as shown below.
* Please do not take very high resolution photos. 2x2 inch photos are tiny and printing them on paper needs only 240k pixel image! We really do not need more than 4 MPixles photos!
* Use white or white like ****PLAIN*** background behing head. If needed, use bed sheet or a large white paper behind head.
* Try to avoid use of flash by taking photos when lot of natural light is around you. Also make sure the light is coming directly on the face and not from one side (which can cause half of the face to be brighter than the other half. For Visa and Passport photos, whole face needs to be nicely exposed).
-- If there are manual settings on your camera, use the Av mode and set Aperture to the most wide setting (smallest f number). If the picture is not coming well, try to bump up ISO to around 400. If you are using a compact camera, do not set ISO too high. If you are using a Digital SLR, you can set ISO up to 800.
* If photos are not coming out well without Flash, please use the Flash. Try to minimize the shadow by flash by taking some photos by turning your camera 90% so that the flash is aligned vertically with the lens.Your Digital Photos should look like following samples:
X Your photo should NOT be a close-up. Face should be around 10%-20% of the photo with some open space above the head.
X Photo background should be light colored and uniform
X Your photo should have enough resolution. File size of the picture must be ideally between 50K to 2MB
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.
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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
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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. Please click here to send us your digital photo(s) for pre-approval before placing your order.
You can also 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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