Can I take a passport photo at home?
Yes. You can take a passport photo at home with a smartphone: stand in even, natural light facing a plain wall, keep a neutral expression, and have someone shoot from about 1–1.5 m at eye level. Then remove the background, set the official colour, and crop to your country's exact size before printing or uploading.
The two things people get wrong at home are the background and the crop. A real wall is rarely perfectly plain and evenly lit, and the head-size ratio must fall within a strict range.
Our free passport tool fixes both from your real photo: it removes the background cleanly, drops in the required plain colour, and crops to the exact millimetre and pixel size for your document — without altering your face, so it stays compliant.
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Upload your real photo, remove the background, and crop to the exact official size — your face is never altered.
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Guidance for identity documents changes and varies by authority — always confirm against the current official specification before submitting.