Singapore Visa Photo Maker — Free, Fast & Private
The Singapore Visa photo is 35×45 mm on plain white in print, and 400×514 px where the Singapore form wants an upload. Immigration & Checkpoints Authority Singapore puts the head at 70–80% of the height, chin to crown, and the eyes at 60–70% up from the bottom edge.
Plain white background. Coloured passport-sized photo taken within last 3 months. No glasses or headgear except religious. ICA gives 400×514 pixels for photos uploaded through its e-Services and a maximum file size of 8 MB with no minimum; a printed photo for hardcopy submission must have a matte or semi-matte, non-reflective finish.
The Immigration and Checkpoints Authority publishes photograph guidelines that are unusually specific about the file and unusually strict about editing. For photographs uploaded through its e-Services, ICA gives the dimension as 400 by 514 pixels, accepts jpg, jpeg, heic, heif and png, and sets the maximum file size at 8 megabytes, with no minimum stated anywhere on the page. Those are the figures the upload route on this page now builds to. Singapore is therefore one of the documents here where the route matters, because ICA runs a paper one as well: a printed photograph for hardcopy submission must have a matte or semi-matte, non-reflective finish, which is the opposite of the heavy gloss the Australian Passport Office asks for and a useful reminder that paper finish is a real requirement rather than a shop preference. Choose the printed route and you get 413 by 531 pixels at 300 DPI, which is the same photograph at 35 by 45 millimetres; the two shapes agree to within a twentieth of a per cent, so nothing about the face changes between them. A fresh coloured photograph is expected with each new application rather than a reprint of an earlier one. The format list is worth a second look, because heic and heif are on it. No other authority covered on this site names Apple's photo formats, and their presence means an image straight off an iPhone can be uploaded in the form the phone saved it, without a conversion step that would otherwise be one more chance to resample the face.
ICA states that the photograph must not be altered or enhanced in any way, and names both the modification of facial features and the use of photo-editing software. Background replacement and automatic cropping fall inside that description, so a file prepared here is best treated as a way to see whether your framing works before you go and have the picture taken properly. ICA also advises against selfies and recommends asking someone else to take the photograph, which is guidance about camera distance as much as about steadiness, since a phone held at arm's length distorts the nose and forehead in a way a biometric comparison notices. Bytes are the one place Singapore is generous rather than exacting. An 8 megabyte ceiling with no floor at all is among the loosest file rules on this site; only two routes anywhere in the catalogue go higher, the British digital upload and the American online passport renewal, both at 10 megabytes, and both of those impose a minimum where ICA does not. So there is no reason to compress a Singapore photograph hard, and every reason not to: quality thrown away to hit a size nobody asked for cannot be recovered, and it is the eyes that go first.
Switch Singapore route in the tool and the export retargets; none of it leaves this browser tab. Figures come from Immigration & Checkpoints Authority Singapore — ica.gov.sg/photo-guidelines. If one has gone stale, contact@minipx.com.