Canada Visa Photo Maker — Free, Fast & Private
The Canada Visa photo is 35×45 mm on plain white in print, and 413×531 px where the Canada form wants an upload. IRCC puts the head at 69–80% of the height, chin to crown, and the eyes at 56–69% up from the bottom edge.
Plain white or light-coloured background. Taken within the last 6 months. Glasses are accepted if your eyes are clearly visible and there is no glare on the lenses; sunglasses and tinted lenses are not. Head must measure 31-36 mm from chin to crown.
Canada publishes two photographs under one name, which is why this page asks which you are making, and the passport version is the largest frame in this catalogue. Canada.ca specifies 50 millimetres wide by 70 high, two identical and unaltered photographs with every application, and the height of the face between 31 and 36 millimetres from chin to the natural top of the head, taken no more than six months before you apply. That single millimetre rule drives both variants: on a 70 millimetre passport photograph it is 45 to 51 per cent, the lowest head percentage in the set, and on the 45 millimetre temporary resident visa frame the very same measurement is 69 to 80 per cent. Same face, same ruler, two numbers that look nothing alike, so anyone reasoning from percentages will get Canada wrong. Two further details belong to no other document here. Canadian passport photographs may be in colour or in black and white, and they must be taken in person by a commercial photographer or studio and professionally printed on plain photographic paper, with photographs printed at home explicitly not accepted.
Read the altered-photo definition before you use any editor on a Canadian application, because it is the most sweeping in this catalogue and it is spelled out item by item. IRCC counts as altered any change to colour, brightness, contrast or sharpness, any cropping around the head and shoulders, any cutting and pasting of your image against a white background, any editing of facial features, any removal of glare, red-eye, scars or birthmarks, any change of clothing colour, and any change to the background including removing shadows. Background replacement and automatic cropping are named in that list. The tool is not restricted for Canada and preparing a file here is a reasonable way to check your framing, but the submission decision is yours and the rule is theirs. One thing IRCC is more relaxed about than our own recorded note suggests: canada.ca states that photographs with glasses are accepted provided the eyes are clearly visible and there is no glare on the lenses, while sunglasses and tinted lenses are excluded.
Switch Canada route in the tool and the export retargets; none of it leaves this browser tab. Figures come from IRCC — canada.ca, temporary resident visa photograph specifications. If one has gone stale, contact@minipx.com.