What size is an Indian passport photo?

51×51 mm, square, roughly 602×602 pixels at 300 DPI. Most online portals also require the file to be between 20 KB and 300 KB, though the exact range varies by portal.

Can I use a phone photograph?

Yes, if the lighting is even and the background plain. Take it in daylight against a white wall, from a couple of metres away with zoom rather than up close — a close lens distorts facial proportions noticeably.

Does the background have to be white?

White or very light and plain. Patterns, furniture and shadows behind the head are all common rejection reasons.

Is my photograph uploaded?

No. Everything happens in your browser, which is the only sensible arrangement for a photograph attached to an identity document.

Passport Photo Resizer

Crops and resizes a photograph to Indian passport dimensions and compresses it to the file size the portal will accept.

Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Your image

Drop an image here

or choose a file — it never leaves your browser

Preset: 413 × 531 px, under 50 KB. 35 × 45 mm at 300 DPI. Always check the exact requirement on the portal you are applying through — they do change.

Result

Your processed image appears here.

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Why use it

Built to be genuinely useful

Both constraints at once

Portals check pixel dimensions and file size separately, and reject on either. Meeting one and failing the other is the usual reason an upload bounces.

Runs on your device

A passport photograph is identity documentation. It is processed in your browser and never uploaded here.

Free, no sign-up

No account, no limit on how many times you run it, and no result held back.

No watermark

The image out is the image in, resized. Nothing is stamped on it.

How it works

Three steps

1
Open your photograph.
2
Position the crop over the face.
3
Download at the required size.

What the specification actually requires

The Indian passport photograph is 51×51 mm — square, not the 35×45 mm rectangle used for many visas and most European documents. At 300 DPI that is about 602×602 pixels, and portals typically want the file between 20 KB and 300 KB.

The composition matters as much as the dimensions. The face should occupy roughly 70–80% of the frame, with a plain white or light background, both ears visible where possible, a neutral expression and eyes open and looking at the camera. Shadows on the face or the background are a common rejection reason and are a lighting problem rather than a cropping one.

Getting under the file size without ruining it

Compression is not free. A photograph squeezed hard enough develops blocky artefacts around the edges of the face, and a verification officer looking at a degraded image is a slower process than one looking at a clean one.

The better order is to crop first, then resize to the required pixel dimensions, then compress only as much as the limit requires. Compressing a large image and then resizing it does the damage twice, and the result is visibly worse at the same file size.

FAQ

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