Create and print your own passport-size photographs with photoshop

by Ankush Rajput 26 comments



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If you have a computer, a digital camera and an inkjet printer, you no longer need run to the nearest photo studio each time you want a passport-size photo. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create your own passport-size photographs very easily in minutes.

Requirements

1. Digital camera

2. Adobe Photoshop

3. inkjet printer

Shoot your photograph

1. Shoot a photograph with your digital camera.

If you are shooting a photo to put on a passport then shoot against a light or white background and full face of the person should appear without any hat or glasses etc.

Preparing Your Photograph

Find or shoot an appropriate photograph of yourself. The first thing to note is that a photo meant for printing needs a resolution of 300 dpi and a preset size. To ensure this, start Adobe Photoshop, open your picture. Click on Image > Image Size, in the dialog box that followyou will need to supply the 'Document Size': width of 3 cm and height of 4 cm; in 'Resolution' field type 300 pixels/inch. Now click on OK.

We will now create a blank image within which we will paste our resized photograph. The blank image should have a white background. Go to File > New and specify a 3 cm X 4 cm image with a 300 pixels/inch resolution and a white background. Head to the photograph, which we earlier resized, press Ctrl + A to select the photo, Ctrl + C to copy it, then select the new image file with the white background and paste it here.

Framing Your Picture

You will now need to create a 'frame' around the pasted image. To do this, press Ctrl + T then press Shift and resize the image, making sure that some white space is kept around it as the frame as shown in image below.



Printing Your Picture

This step will use a Photoshop Tool to create an A4 size page full of your passport-sized pictures.
Head to File > Automate and click on Picture Package
In the 'Picture Package' window that appears, here is what you need to do: Select a 'Page size' of 8.0 x 10.0 square-inch (this is standard photo paper size). Next in the 'Layout' drop-down menu select (9)2.5 x 3.25 inches-square (which is standard size of passport photo).
Now we need to select a Resolution of 300 pixels/inch. That's it! Click OK and you're done. Clicking on OK will create an 8 x 10 square-inch image which you can print to your inkjet printer.
Cut along the white frame and use the passport-sized photos as you desire.
Comments 26 comments
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this website can create passport photos:
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Kool Funny said...

hi......i want to set to maxi size

Unknown said...

THANX DEAR VERY GOOD

lhadon said...

i opened my pic and then i clicked on image size but it is not allowing me to make changes in the width and breadth and any other boxes

Unknown said...

yes,this article is very much helpfull for those who want to do this on their own.......thank you.....

Anonymous said...

Nice Tutorial It help me a lot thx for sharing this
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Vaibhav said...

Thankyou so much..
I was searching the whole day for a solution for printing passport size photo & this is the perfect one.

Unknown said...

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My Name is Ankush Rajput
I am from India. Only 19 years old studying in college. I like photography and editing images with photoshop. I spend my free time searching for photography tips and exploring photoshop and whatever I learn I share it here.
ankushrajput2@gmail.com

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