Thursday, July 10th, 2008

Passport photos

One of the advantages of digital photography is you can shoot and print your own passport photos. However it’s not always clear what the rules are. Fortunately the State Department has a useful site on this:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/guide_2081.html

In particular you need to know how to place the “face” in the image, which is outlined here:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/composition/composition_874.html

This is also useful because the same format is used for things like International Licenses.

One Comment on “Passport photos”

  1. John

    You can create valid passport photos with http://idphoto4you.com website.
    It uses face detection to set size and position of head.
    It is free.
    Built-in standards for 63 countries.

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