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Photo faults are the most common reason an application comes back. Pick your destination, and this measures your photo against that authority's published spec — size, format, crop, background, colour, sharpness — then re-cuts it to the shape and file size they accept.
Optional. Narrows the rules to that authority's published spec.
JPEG, PNG or WebP. Nothing is uploaded.
The file is opened, measured and discarded inside this page — no copy of it reaches us or anyone else. That is why there is no account to create and no email to give.
Pick a file to see the measurements. A phone photo taken against a white wall in daylight is exactly the right input.
Almost never for the reason people expect. The face is usually fine. What fails is the background — a wall that looked white in the room and measures mid-grey in the file — followed by a crop that is neither square nor passport-shaped, and a file that is either too small for the portal to accept or too large for it to take.
All four are measurable before you submit anything, which is the whole argument for this page. A rejection costs a week: the authority refuses, we tell you, you retake, we resubmit. Thirty seconds here removes most of that risk, and it costs nothing because it should cost nothing.
For the method that produces a compliant photo with a phone and a white wall — the distances, the light, the framing — read the photo guide. For what else an application needs alongside the photo, see what to upload.
It depends on the destination, which is why the checker asks. India's e-visa system wants a square between 350 and 1000 px and a file between 10 KB and 1 MB; Vietnam wants 4 × 6 cm proportions; Ethiopia and Brazil want the 35 × 45 mm shape; Kenya fixes no dimensions but caps the file at 300 KB. Underneath all of them sits our own floor: the upload check rejects anything under 600 px wide. Pick your destination above and the page measures against that spec.
No. The file is opened by your browser, measured on a canvas and discarded when you close the page. It is never sent to us, to any government portal, or to any third party — there is no request to send it in. That is why the tool needs no account and no email address.
No, and no honest tool can promise that. This measures what arithmetic can settle: dimensions, file size, format, crop shape, background brightness and uniformity, colour and sharpness. Whether you are wearing glasses, whether the photo is recent, whether your expression is neutral — those are listed separately and are yours to confirm. The authority makes the decision.
Because a camera exposes for your face, not the wall. Standing close to the wall makes it worse: your own shadow falls on it. Step at least 30–50 cm away, face a window in daylight, and the background lifts to something a validator reads as white. This is the most common fault we see, and the checker reports the actual measured brightness so you can tell before you submit rather than after.
No. Portals require a separate, recent photograph — not a scan or crop of the one printed in your passport. A re-photographed print also tends to fail on sharpness and colour, both of which this page measures.
iPhones save HEIC by default, and browsers do not all decode it. Share or export the photo as JPEG first — in Photos, use Share and pick a format option, or send it to yourself and save the received JPEG.