Australia Visa & Passport Photo Maker — Free, Fast & Private
The Australia Visa & Passport photo is 35×45 mm on plain white in print, and 413×531 px where the Australia form wants an upload. Australian Passport Office puts the head at 71–80% of the height, chin to crown, and the eyes at 60–70% up from the bottom edge.
Plain white or light grey background. Neutral expression, mouth closed, eyes open and visible. Taken within last 6 months. The Australian Passport Office accepts a range of sizes rather than one: 35–40 mm wide by 45–50 mm high, with the face 32–36 mm from chin to crown. 35×45 mm is the smallest size it accepts and is what this tool builds.
The Australian Passport Office is one of the few authorities that publishes its photograph size as a range rather than a single figure: 35 to 40 millimetres wide by 45 to 50 high, with the face measuring 32 to 36 millimetres from chin to crown and the photograph less than six months old. This page builds to the bottom of that range, 35 by 45 millimetres at 413 by 531 pixels, which sits inside what the office accepts. Its print requirements are more exacting than anything else in this catalogue. Two good-quality colour prints are wanted, produced by dye sublimation rather than from an inkjet printer, on heavy-weight glossy paper of at least 200 gsm. Retouching of any kind is excluded and the guidelines name examples, removing moles, wrinkles or scars. The office also states in plain terms that it does not recommend using an online passport photo service or a mobile app, on identity-fraud grounds, which is worth relaying here rather than leaving out.
Glasses come off, and the wording forecloses the usual argument: you must not wear glasses unless you cannot remove them for medical reasons, and poor eyesight on its own is not an acceptable reason. Religious head coverings are permitted but must be plain, without patterns, and the guidelines go out of their way to add even small patterns, so a subtly figured scarf that reads as plain in the mirror can fail. The covering must show the whole face from the bottom of the chin to the top of the forehead with both edges visible. Expression trips people at the other end of the age range: everyone over three needs a neutral expression with eyes open and mouth closed, while under-threes may have the mouth open, and in no case may another person appear in the frame. Given the office's own advice about online photo services, treat what you make here as a framing check rather than as a finished submission. Two smaller allowances round the rules out. A hearing aid may be worn, by adults, children and infants alike. Jewellery and piercings may stay in provided nothing obscures any part of the face, particularly around the eyes, mouth and nose, and provided no ring or stud throws back a reflection. Where a medical condition makes any of the guidelines impossible, the office asks for either a medical certificate or a completed B-11 form setting out why.
All of that happens in this browser tab: 413×531 JPEG on plain white, nothing uploaded. Figures come from Australian Passport Office — passports.gov.au. If one has gone stale, contact@minipx.com.