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Passport Photo Background
Cut out and drawn on your machine.

Passport photo background, white or light blue

Take the photo against any wall. The background becomes plain white or light blue, flat from edge to edge.

Drop a head-and-shoulders photo. The background becomes plain white (or light blue), with no shadow, ready for the form's own size.

or drop it here, or paste with ⌘/Ctrl V

JPG, PNG, WebP, GIF, BMP or AVIF · several at once go to the bulk queue

Nothing is uploaded. The first cut-out downloads a model once (25 MB); after that it works offline.

The part of a home passport photo that usually fails

Most home-taken passport photos fail on the background: a wall that is cream rather than white, a shadow of the head on the wall, a light switch in the corner. This page removes all of it and puts a flat white or light blue behind the person, the same value in every pixel, with no shadow — a shadow on the background is one of the listed reasons for rejection.

Taking the photo so this works

Stand a pace or two away from the wall, so your shadow falls behind you rather than next to your head. Face a window for even light. Keep loose hair off the face. Take the photo at the camera’s full resolution; the model finds hair better with more pixels to look at.

Limits

  1. The background only. Size, head position and face lighting are not checked or changed here.
  2. Very fine flyaway hair may come back softened. Some offices prefer that to a halo; if yours does not, brush the edge.

Questions people ask

Is it safe to do a passport photo here?
Your photo is not uploaded anywhere: the model runs in this page and the result is written to your own disk. That matters more for an ID photo than for most pictures.
Will the photo be accepted?
This page fixes the background, which is the most common reason a home-made photo is rejected. It does not check the rest — head size, eye position, expression, light on the face — and each passport office sets its own rules. Check the official rules for your country.
White or light blue?
Follow the form. Where it says only plain light background, white is the safest. Light blue helps where the person has very pale hair or a white top.
Does it crop to passport size?
No. Change the background here at full size, then crop and resize to the size the form asks for. Cropping first leaves the model fewer pixels to find the hair in.

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