U.S. Passport Photo Crops, Print Sheets, and a Checklist, in Your Browser
YepPhoto helps you crop a photo you took yourself to the U.S. passport photo size, check it against the requirements on your own, and print it or save it for an online application.
1. Choose a photo
Use a photo taken against a plain white or off-white background, facing the camera. Your photo stays in this browser and isn't uploaded.
2. Rotate and crop
After you choose a photo, rotate it if it's sideways, then move and zoom it until the chin sits on the chin line and the top of the head is inside the band.
Guide: put the chin on the line and the top of the head inside the band. The band covers head sizes of 1 to 1 3/8 inches (25 to 35 mm), measured from the bottom of the chin to the top of the head, as listed on the State Department's Passport Photos page. Where the line sits in the frame is this site's choice, not a State Department rule. Hair may go past the edges of the photo if the whole head is shown and is the right size.
The line and the band are drawn only on this screen, not on the photos you save or print. This site doesn't find your face, measure your head, or judge your photo.
3. Check your photo
Check each item yourself. This site does not measure or check your photo, and checking these items does not mean the U.S. Department of State will accept it. The Department makes the final decision.
For a printed or digital photo
This site only crops, scales down, and rotates in 90-degree steps, and saves the result as a JPEG. It does not edit the background, face, color, or lighting. Treating these steps as not changing the photo is this site's reading of the State Department's pages, not a statement from the Department. Whether a photo is accepted is decided by the U.S. Department of State.
Also for a digital photo
Also for a printed photo
4. Save or print
Digital photo for online renewal
Sources
- U.S. passport digital photo requirements (online renewal), summary version 3
- Source: Uploading a Digital Photo. Retrieved October 16, 2026.
- U.S. passport photo requirements (printed photo), summary version 4
- Source: Passport Photos. Retrieved October 16, 2026.
Print sheet
Before you print
- Choose the paper size that matches this sheet: 4 x 6 in.
- Set the scale to 100% (Actual size). Turn off Fit to page, Shrink to fit, and Fit to printable area.
- Set margins to None if your browser offers it, and turn off headers and footers.
- Turn off borderless printing. Borderless printing enlarges the image slightly, which changes the photo size.
- For a photo lab or pharmacy, order a 4 x 6 in print of the saved image. If you are offered crop or fit options, choose the one that prints the whole image without cropping or enlarging.
- Printed on matte or glossy photo paper, with no visible printer dots.
After you print
- Measure the scale bar with a ruler. Check that the distance from the first long tick to the last long tick is 1 in.
- The printed photo measures 2 × 2 inches (check it with the scale on the sheet).
- Check that no photo, cut mark, or scale tick is cut off at the edges of the paper.
- Printed on matte or glossy photo paper, with no visible printer dots.
If either length is off, check the print settings in steps 1 to 4 above and print again. For a photo lab or pharmacy print, tell the store that the print didn't come out at the right size.
Sources
- U.S. passport photo requirements (printed photo), summary version 4
- Source: Passport Photos. Retrieved October 16, 2026.
What YepPhoto does
You open a photo from your device or take one with your camera, rotate it if it's sideways, and move and zoom the crop yourself. Guides for the smallest and largest head size allowed by the U.S. passport requirements sit over the crop, so you can see where your head should fall.
From the same crop, you can save a digital photo for an online application, or print a sheet of photos with cut lines and a ruler, so you can check the printed size before you cut.
A checklist goes with the photo: background, expression, glasses, head coverings, and how recent the photo is. You go through it yourself.
Your photo stays on your device
YepPhoto works on your photo inside your browser. It doesn't upload your photo, and it doesn't keep it after you close the page. Saved photos don't carry the camera's metadata.
What YepPhoto doesn't do
YepPhoto only crops, shrinks, and rotates your photo in quarter turns. It doesn't change the background, retouch your face, adjust colors, or add filters, because the U.S. Department of State asks that photos not be changed with software.
It doesn't detect faces or measure your head, and it doesn't tell you whether your photo will be accepted. The guides and the checklist are for you to check against.
What YepPhoto covers
YepPhoto is for U.S. passport photos only. It doesn't cover visa photos, other countries' passport photos, or other ID photos, and it isn't a photo editor or a place to store your photos.
Sources and notes
The requirements come only from the U.S. Department of State's official pages on travel.state.gov. Each output shows which pages they come from and the date the text of those pages was retrieved.