Photographs in passport size or format They are very important in our day-to-day life, they are used for our identification cards and in some cases even for the library card. However, the cameras of our Android mobile devices are increasingly complete and it is hard to believe that we have to go to a specialized photographer for that.
Do not worry, We bring you the best applications and everything you need to know about passport-size photographs so that you can take them from your mobile and save a lot of money. Discover with us how to easily take a passport photo on your phone.
The measurements of a passport photo
The photographs for passport we must mention that they are not the same in all the countries of the world. Essentially we are talking about portrait photographs with a white or solid color background that allows us to clearly identify the photographed subject. For all this, passport photographs have a series of quality and format requirements, as well as they must have some measures that are correctly differentiated to be able to be used in the different official organisms. All that and more is what we want to teach you here today, to take your own passport-size photographs from your mobile.
- Standard measurement: 32 * 26mm / 148 * 184px
How to mention here the size and edition of each of the countries that read us in Spanish would be crazy, We leave you a website that simply by entering the country in which we are interested in presenting a passport photo He will give us all the size instructions so that we can take these photographs ourselves without any impediment. This is undoubtedly the easiest way to have clear measurements, but for this the first thing we will need is precisely the photograph, and taking it will not be easy if you do not have basic knowledge of photography, that is why we help you.
How should we take a passport photo
The first thing we will need is a clear and uniform background. We will not be able to take passport-size photographs that have backgrounds of different colors or blurred that may interfere with identification, so much so that without this requirement the photograph will not be accepted by any official body. For this any wall of the house will serve us As long as for example we have it painted in a light gray or white color, we will avoid bright and dark colors, as they will not be valid either.
The next thing we are going to inevitably need is a good source of light. It is important in this case that we select a light source that contains a «neutral white», excessively yellowish lighting, typical of habituations or auxiliary lights, will produce an undesirable result in the photographs, and we must seek to make them as similar as possible to studio photographs. If you have a ring of LED light or something similar, the ideal is that you place it at the height of the face right in front of you so as not to produce side shadows that obstruct the photograph.
We already have the important thing, a light background (preferably white), and a centered lighting source that allows us to take the picture without side shadows. Now we must try to avoid wearing clothes that have small stripes or narrow squares, as they will create a strange effect when printing. Now we have two main options:
- Take the photo with the device's "selfie" camera
- Take the picture using a tripod
In any case, it is important that we always keep the photographed subject in the center, and if possible that we take the photograph in horizontal format. In this way we can enlarge the photograph and frame the subject well. Don't be afraid to get closer be sure to leave a margin for cropping your photos though. It is preferable that we take the photograph with the rear camera of our device since as a general rule it is more effective. We will avoid using the Wide Angle or Portrait Mode, we will take a standard photograph, if possible activating the HDR mode.
Passport photo requirements
Now that we know what we must do, we are going to list a good number of things that we can never do in a passport-size photograph:
- If you usually use prescription glasses, the passport photo must be taken with the glasses on
- You should never wear sunglasses in the passport photo
- Makeup should be natural, preferably avoid makeup for the passport photo
- There are no official requirements regarding the use of the beard in the passport photo
- The photo must always be in color
- The photo must be printed on "photographic paper", never on standard paper
- We must avoid the use of garments that may prevent or hinder the identification of the user, such as hats, caps, masks or patches
- The photograph must be taken from the front and with the head totally uncovered.
- Hair must not cover the face, loose or tied, with full vision of the face
- Some authorities, such as the passport, only allow white background
The best applications to take passport photos
We start with a pack of application recommendations that will allow us to take the classic ID photo that we will only have to print on the appropriate paper later, this will allow us to make our ID photo at an extremely low cost.
Passport photo
One of the most widespread in the Google Play Store is Photo ID, an application that is literally the most downloaded of all those that are developed for this purpose and its success is understandable. The application has a series of presets that will allow us to adjust the photographs in different sizes, as well as edit and crop them to meet the requirements. We can adjust the different measures and even make a single sheet to print that will contain several photographs of each measure, thus we will make the most of every penny in printing.
This application is available in Spanish so you will not have any problem when using it. Totally free that you can download now.
Passport Size Photo Maker
We move on to another of the successes of the Google Play Store, this application too gives us the possibility to adjust the photography to the expected requirements for more than 150 countries and their standardized passport size photo sizes. It will allow us the possibility of taking the photograph from the application itself or launching it directly from the gallery of our Android device, to the taste of the consumer, something that seems to me an interesting advantage. Without a doubt we are facing one of the best alternatives and that is that it will also allow us to edit the photographs in the fastest way.
We're going to be able to carry out smart background change adjustments, adjust the saturation of the photos as well as the contrast and lighting, a number of fantastic ideas. Above all, one of its main advantages and that we have already mentioned above, is precisely that we will be able to select the country for which we are taking the photograph and the size will be adjusted individually and automatically. Like ID Photo, this will allow us to adjust different ID photo formats on the same page, this is very advantageous because we can make the most of the paper. You can download it totally free.
ID photo editor
We bring you the third and last alternative to take a passport photo totally free and fast. It is characterized by having an important advanced photo editor and this will make us easily obtain better results, you cannot miss it. It allows us to adjust photos that we have in the gallery and even use the JPEG format so that they can be printed wherever we want. In this case, it has different sizes and a country selector, including Spain, the United States of America or the United Kingdom, among others, so adjusting the size will also be extremely easy in this case.
It has a «fund eliminator» automatic that will allow us to save ourselves the trouble if we have taken a photograph with a not too suitable background, something that you should not need if you have followed the advice that we have left you previously. You can download it for free and enjoy it now.
We hope that all the advice we have given you will help you take your own passport photographs and thus make the most of your time and money.
