The editor opens on a 35 × 45 mm photo frame, 413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI, the size gov.uk and service-public.gouv.fr state for passports and ID cards. Each country's own rule is on the page, with its source. A UK or French passport photo comes from a booth or a professional, so the frame here serves forms that accept a photo you supply. One of the passport size photo sizes.
35x45 mm photo size: the UK and French rules
In pixels at 300 DPI
413 × 531 pxcomputed at 300 DPI
UK printed photo
35 × 45 mm, head 29 to 34 mm, not cut downgov.uk
UK digital photo
at least 600 × 750 px, 50 KB to 10 MB, uncroppedgov.uk
France, passport and ID
3.5 × 4.5 cm, face 3.2 to 3.6 cm, approved professional or boothservice-public.gouv.fr
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UK: cream or light grey. France: light, never whitegov.uk, service-public.gouv.fr
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What is 35 × 45 mm in pixels, inches and cm?
413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI, 827 × 1063 at 600 DPI, 1.38 × 1.77 inches, 3.5 × 4.5 cm.
The pixel figure is millimetres times the dots per inch divided by 25.4, each side rounded on its own: 35 ÷ 25.4 × 300 is 413.4, and 45 ÷ 25.4 × 300 is 531.5. Three hundred dots per inch is the print resolution a passport counter assumes when the rule is written in millimetres and says nothing about pixels. So it is the figure the editor exports, and the one the Custom size box uses when you type a physical unit. Double the resolution and the pixels double; the frame does not change. A form that states pixels outright checks those pixels, and nothing else; type them in as px.
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Which background colour does each country want?
Not white everywhere.
The UK asks for cream or light grey, France forbids white outright, and white is the US and Indian rule. The makers on this search say “white” for everyone; each row below is the authority’s own wording from the page named in the caption.
Country
Background
Head or face
Taken within
Size
UK, printed
plain cream or light grey
29 to 34 mm crown to chin
1 month
45 mm high by 35 mm wide
UK, digital
plain and light-coloured
as printed
1 month
at least 600 × 750 px, 50 KB to 10 MB, uncropped
France
plain and light; white is forbidden
3.2 to 3.6 cm face, 70 to 80%
6 months
3.5 × 4.5 cm
US
plain white or off-white
1 to 1 3/8 in chin to top of head
6 months
2 × 2 in, a different frame
India, NTA exam forms
white
80% of the image is the face
recent
passport size, 3.5 × 4.5 cm as the default
The UK rows are gov.uk's photo requirements and rules for digital photos; France's is service-public.gouv.fr (updated 11 March 2026); the US row is pl.usembassy.gov restating the State Department's rules; India's is the NTA's NEET (UG) and JEE (Main) 2026 bulletins. Each as it read when we checked it in September 2026; the authority's page wins.
Two lines rule out a home crop for these passports. gov.uk says a printed photo must “not be a cut down version of a larger picture” and must be printed to a professional standard. service-public.gouv.fr says a French passport or ID photo is taken by an approved professional or in an approved booth. The tool frames and sizes for forms that accept a photo you supply; it does not swap a background. The US square has its own page, the 2 × 2 passport photo, and so does India’s NEET form, at the NEET photo size.
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What size must a UK digital passport photo be?
At least 600 pixels wide and 750 pixels tall, between 50 KB and 10 MB, taken in the last month, on a plain light-coloured background: gov.uk’s rules for digital photos.
Do not crop it to 35 × 45 mm. For a photo taken on your own device, gov.uk says to include your head, shoulders and upper body, and adds: “Do not crop your photo - it will be done for you.” The photo must also be unaltered by computer software, and you need someone to help you take it. So upload the uncropped original, not an export from this page. gov.uk also says a photo from a booth or shop, which comes with a photo code, is more likely to be approved than one from your own device.
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How tall should the head be in a 35 × 45 mm photo?
Between 29 and 34 mm from crown to chin for a UK passport, on gov.uk’s photo requirements, which is 64% to 76% of the 45 mm frame.
For France, a face of 3.2 to 3.6 cm, which service-public.gouv.fr states as 70 to 80% of the photo. The two bands overlap, so a head that takes about three quarters of the frame’s height passes both. For those two passports the booth or the professional frames the photo, since a home crop is refused. For a form that accepts a photo you supply, the editor draws the frame over the photo on the stage: pull a corner to scale it and drag the middle until the chin sits close to the bottom edge and the crown close to the top. Shoot with room around the head.
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Can I use the same 35 × 45 photo for a passport and a Schengen visa?
In size, yes: the frame is the same 35 × 45 mm, and one export fits both forms.
Which visa photo rules does a Schengen consulate use?
Everything else is the authority’s: the head band, the background colour, the age of the photo and the glasses rule come from the consulate or the passport office you file with. We read France’s rules in full and they are on this page; we have not read an EU-level page that prints numbers, so no Schengen-wide figure appears here. Take your consulate’s numbers from its own page, crop to the band it states, and save once for the passport and once for the visa if the two bands differ.
File size
What does a 35 × 45 export weigh?
39.6 KB as a plain JPEG from our 576.8 KB reference photo at 413 × 531: small enough for the portals that take a photo you supply.
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Pixels
Size
Reference photo
1920 × 1280
576.8 KB
35 × 45 mm crop
413 × 531
39.6 KB
Source: photo.jpg, our reference photo, one of our own photographs, 576.8 KB at 1920×1280, cropped at the centre to 7:9 and scaled down to 413 × 531, exported as a JPEG at 0.92, then encoded by the engine at its defaults, no Max file size set. Quality 0.92 was the editor's step before 5 October 2026. The row is the file the engine produced.
Every byte count is the size of the actual file our engine produced from the named source, the same bytes you would download, not an estimate. The reference photo is one of our own photographs, an iguana on a branch, and the camera photo is a real one too. Drop your own file into the tool above to rerun any of them. How we measure names the sources and the settings.
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Is 35 × 45 mm the same as 3.5 × 4.5 cm?
Yes, the same frame and the same 413 × 531 pixels; only the form’s unit differs.
European and UK pages write millimetres. Indian exam and government portals write centimetres and add a file-size window, a JPG between so many kilobytes. The NTA’s NEET (UG) and JEE (Main) 2026 bulletins want the photograph at 10 KB to 200 KB and the signature at 10 KB to 100 KB. Crop here, then type the top of the window as Max file size in Advanced settings, and one save does both. The NEET photo size page carries that form in full. Same size, different form.
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How do I do a whole family's photos?
One at a time in the editor, each opening with 35 × 45 mm already pressed, so four photos are drop, drag, Save, next.
Every save lands in the same download list, with a ZIP once there is more than one, and the size of each file printed on its row. A frame that guesses its own position cuts off heads, which is why there is no auto-crop batch here. The free allowance is 300 images a day, counted beside the tool, with no account and no watermark.
Be sure first
When the 35 × 45 preset is the wrong tool
A US passport or visa?
That is a 2 × 2 inch square, not a 7:9 portrait. The 2 × 2 inch page and the 600 × 600 page open on it.
A UK or French passport photo?
Get it from a booth, a shop or an approved professional. gov.uk refuses a print cut down from a larger picture and crops the online photo itself; France requires an approved professional or booth.
A Canadian passport?
50 × 70 mm in print and a 3:2 JPEG of at least 1200 × 1800 pixels online, both from a commercial photographer; its page states the rules.
A Hong Kong passport or visa form?
Those take 40 × 50 mm, a larger 4:5 frame; a 35 × 45 photo is below the visa forms’ minimum.
A country whose rule we have not read?
Unlink the sides, type its size into Custom size in mm, and read its own page for the head band and the background; nothing here stands in for that page.
A background swap?
We frame and size; we do not remove or replace backgrounds. Shoot again against the colour your country states.
The size is already pressed above. One drop settles most of these.
Q:What is a 35x45 mm photo in pixels?
413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI, which is what the editor exports, and 827 × 1063 at 600 DPI. The arithmetic is millimetres times the dots per inch divided by 25.4, each side rounded: 35 ÷ 25.4 × 300 is 413.4. A portal that states pixels checks the pixels; a print counter reads the millimetres and applies its own resolution. Type 827 × 1063 into Custom size when a form wants the larger file.
Q:What is 35x45 mm in inches?
1.38 × 1.77 inches: 35 and 45 divided by 25.4. It is close to, but not the same as, the US 2 × 2 inch photo, which is a square. A 35 × 45 frame is a 7:9 portrait, so one cannot be cut from the other without losing the head band. Whichever unit the form uses, pixels, millimetres or inches, it is the same frame.
Q:Which countries use the 35x45 mm photo size?
The UK states 45 mm high by 35 mm wide on gov.uk, and France states 3.5 × 4.5 cm on service-public.gouv.fr. Other European passport, ID card and Schengen visa forms name the same frame; we read only those two pages in full. The head band, the background colour and the photo's age differ by country, so read your own authority's page for those and take only the frame from here. India's forms write the same size in centimetres.
Q:Is 35x45 mm the same as 3.5x4.5 cm?
Yes, the same frame: 35 mm is 3.5 cm, and both are 413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI. The two phrasings come from different forms. European and UK pages write millimetres; Indian exam and government portals write centimetres and add a file-size window. Type the top of that window as Max file size in Advanced settings, and one save crops and caps. Same size, different form.
Q:How tall should the head be in a 35x45 mm photo?
For a UK passport, 29 to 34 mm from crown to chin on gov.uk's requirements, which is 64% to 76% of the 45 mm frame. For France, a face of 3.2 to 3.6 cm, 70 to 80% of the photo on service-public.gouv.fr. For a form that accepts a photo you supply, drag the frame until the head takes about three quarters of its height.
Q:What size is a photo for a visa to the Schengen area?
35 × 45 mm, which is 413 × 531 pixels at 300 DPI: Schengen visa forms name the same frame as the UK and French passport photo. We have not read an EU-level page that prints the other rules. Take the head band, the background colour and the photo's age from your consulate's own page, then crop to its band and save.
Q:Will a passport photo 35x45 mm work as a Schengen visa photo?
In size, yes: the frame is the same 35 × 45 mm, so one export fits both forms. What differs is each authority's other rules: the head band, the background colour, how old the photo may be, glasses. France's rules are the ones we read in full. The consulate you apply to states its own on its page. We have not read an EU-level page that prints numbers, so take them from there rather than from a maker's one-size claim.
Q:What size must a UK digital passport photo be?
At least 600 pixels wide and 750 pixels tall, between 50 KB and 10 MB, unaltered by software, on gov.uk's rules for digital photos. Do not crop it to 35 × 45: gov.uk says the service crops it for you, so upload the photo with your head, shoulders and upper body in it. Someone else must take it, or get a photo code from a booth or shop.
Q:Does a 35x45 photo need a white background?
Not in Europe, and in France white is forbidden. gov.uk asks for a plain cream or light grey background on a printed photo and a plain light-coloured one on a digital photo. service-public.gouv.fr asks for a plain, light background and says a white one is refused. White is the US rule, at 2 × 2 inches, and the NTA's rule on Indian exam forms. Shoot for the country you are filing with.
Q:What is 413x531 pixels?
The 35 × 45 mm photo at 300 DPI, and the number most ID portals and print counters mean when they say passport size in pixels. It is a 7:9 portrait. The 35 × 45 mm preset draws that frame, locked to the ratio, and Save resamples what is inside it to exactly 413 × 531. A form that says 413 × 531 outright is checking pixels, so no DPI conversion is needed: the export is the number.
Q:Can I wear glasses in a 35x45 passport photo?
Better not. gov.uk says do not wear glasses unless you have to, and never sunglasses or tinted glasses, with a plain expression, mouth closed, eyes open and visible. service-public.gouv.fr allows glasses only with thin frames that do not hide the eyes, untinted lenses and no reflection, with a neutral expression and the mouth closed. Take them off for the photo when you can.
Q:How recent must the photo be?
Taken in the last month for a UK passport, on both gov.uk pages, printed and digital. Taken less than six months ago for a French passport or ID card, on service-public.gouv.fr. The date is checked before the size: a photo from an older document fails on age whatever its quality. Get a new one from a booth, a shop or an approved professional, and file it while the window is open.
Q:Can I do a whole family's photos at once?
One at a time in the editor, because a frame that guesses its own position cuts off heads. Each photo opens with 35 × 45 mm pressed, so four photos are drop, drag, Save, next, and every save lands in the same download list with a ZIP once there is more than one. The free allowance is 300 images a day, counted beside the tool, with no account.
Q:Do you keep my ID photo?
No. We keep nothing: files are processed and wiped automatically, never archived and never used for anything else. Saving strips EXIF metadata, including the GPS location a phone writes into the file, so the photo you upload or print carries no record of where it was taken. There is no account, no watermark and no charge for the 35 × 45 crop.
The frame is pressed above at 413 × 531 pixels. Drop the photo, put the head in the form's band and save. For a UK online application, upload the uncropped photo instead: gov.uk crops it.
