100% on-device
Australia passport photo, made in your browser
The Australian Passport Office’s 35 × 45 mm, cropped to the head height it checks. No upload, no sign-up — and nothing done to your face that the APO would object to.
The rule this document is failed for
“Unedited” means unedited — including the red-eye button.
Australia asks for photographs that have not been retouched, and it means it literally enough to name red-eye correction: the ordinary, well-meant clean-up that phone galleries apply by default is the thing being ruled out. Filters, skin smoothing, blemish removal and background swaps all fall on the wrong side of that line. Cropping and resizing do not — which is all this tool does unless you explicitly tick the background box, and for an Australian passport you should leave it unticked. Bring a real light wall, take the glasses off, and let the photo be plain.
The specification, in numbers
- Photo size
- 35 × 45 mm
- Head height
- 32–36 mm, measured to the top of your skull — hair is ignored
- Head as a share of the frame
- 71–80%
- Background
- Light, plain and uniform — no patterns, textures or objects.
- Printed at 300 DPI
- 413 × 531 px
- Copies on one 10 × 15 cm (4 × 6 in) print
- 8 (4 × 2)
- Online — the Australian Passport Office
- there is no photo upload for this document
- Background colour the tool paints
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#f4f4f4— only if you tick the background box, which is off by default.
Applying online? That is a different photo.
No digital photo upload exists — Australia takes two prints, dye-sublimation on glossy paper of 200 gsm or heavier, lodged at a post office. The APO warns against online photo services because they risk identity fraud; this tool never uploads your photo anywhere, which is the risk they are describing.
From the form's own rules, last read on 2026-07-13.
What Australia passport asks for
- Head 32–36 mm from the chin to the crown of the head.
- Glasses must come off unless you cannot remove them for medical reasons.
- Neutral expression, mouth closed, both eyes open.
- Two photos, printed on high-gloss, heavy-weight paper. Unedited — no red-eye correction, no retouching.
- There is NO photo upload: even the “online form” has to be printed and lodged at a post office. Prints must be dye-sublimation on glossy paper of at least 200 gsm — a home inkjet does not qualify, so take the sheet to a lab.
Every figure above comes from Australian Passport Office, last read on 2026-07-13. These rules do change; if you are reading this long after that date, spend a minute on the source page.
How it works
- Drop in a photo. It is read straight into this tab. There is no upload.
- Mark three points — the top of your head, your chin, the middle of your face. From those the crop is fully determined: the scale comes from the head height Australia passport demands, the position from where it wants the crown. You do not pan or zoom anything.
- Download the single 35 × 45 mm photo, or the print sheet with all 8 copies on it.
Questions
Can I use the background replacement here?
You can switch it on, but for an Australian passport you should not: the APO wants an unedited photo, and a replaced background is an edit. It is off by default for exactly this reason. It is there for the documents and countries where the rules are looser.
Glasses?
Off, unless you medically cannot remove them.
How many prints do I need?
Two, on high-gloss, heavy-weight photo paper — at least 200 gsm, produced by dye sublimation, which means a photo lab and not your inkjet. The print sheet this tool makes gives you eight copies of a 35 × 45 mm photo on a single 10 × 15 cm print; take it to a lab and ask for gloss.
Can I upload the photo instead of printing it?
There is nowhere to upload it. The Australian passport process has no digital photo upload at all — even the “online form” has to be printed and lodged at a participating post office, with two physical photos. Worth knowing before you prepare a file nobody will accept. The APO also warns against online passport-photo services on the grounds that they can expose you to identity fraud, and it is right to: those services send your face to a server. This one does not send it anywhere — the crop happens in your browser, and there is no upload endpoint to send it to.
Is my photo uploaded anywhere?
It is not uploaded — and that is a fact of how the tool is built, not a promise in a privacy policy. There is no upload endpoint. The photo is read straight into this browser tab and cropped by code running on your own machine; you can pull out your Wi-Fi halfway through and it will still finish. Given that a passport photo is your face attached to a government form, that is the only honest way to build this.
How do I get it printed?
Download the print sheet and hand it to any photo lab as an ordinary 10 × 15 cm (4 × 6 in) print — it costs small change and comes back on real photo paper with the cut guides on it. If you print at home, print at 100% scale and never “fit to page”: that quietly rescales the sheet and makes every millimetre on it wrong.
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The same tool knows all of them — pick one from the dropdown above, or start from its own page: