Take passport photos with your webcam online

• Include a full face, looking straight at the webcam with open eyes from top of hair to shoulders.
• Face in photo should have a neutral expression and your mouth closed (no grinning, frowning or raised eyebrows).
• Make sure nothing covers the outline of your eyes, nose or mouth.
• You should not wear glasses or any head covering, unless you wear one for religious beliefs or medical reasons.
• Only one person should be on the photo (babies should not have toys or a dummy).
• Take the photo in an off-white, cream or light grey background.
• Avoid shadows on the face or background.
• The contrast and lighting in the photo should be normal.
• Photos should be clear and in sharp focus, with a clear difference between your face and the background.
• Photos should be in colour, not black and white.
• Photos should be printed on good quality gloss prints.

1. Webcam attached to your PC or laptop
2. One of the following browsers installed:
   
   • Firefox 2.0 or higher
   • MSIE 6.0 or higher
   • Safari 3.0 or higher
   • Chrome 0.3 Beta or higher
3. Flash Player 9 or higher installed

1. First select your country. The correct passport width, passport height and head height range are automatically set, including the guidelines within the webcam output. You can always change the values if needed.
   
   
2. After you have selected your country, you must see the "Adobe Flash Player Settings" popup in the Webcam output. If it does not appear reload this page and start with the first step again.
   
   
   
   
3. Click the "Allow" button in the "Adobe Flash Player Settings" to enable access to your webcam.
   
   
4. Position yourself in front of the webcam. You should see yourself in the webcam output. Use the guidelines to position your head as demonstrated below. Crown is the top of your head without hair.
   
   
   
   
5. Click the "Take snapshot" button.
6. A 5 sec time delay is applied before the snapshot is taken.
7. The passport photos are in jpg format and are private. The passport photos will not be publicly displayed.
8. Click the "Download photo sheet" button to save the pictures locally to your computer.
9. All passport photos taken remain online for only 10 minutes and then will be automatically deleted.
10. The photo sheet is an image which can be printed on a standard 4R high-quality paper (size = 4x6 inch or 10x15 cm) at a retail store that has a photo print machine or online photo print service.

1. After you take a snapshot of yourself (A) you must take another snapshot of the background (B) only.
   
   

   Snapshot of yourself (A)	Snapshot of background (B)	Final result

   
   
   
2. When taking snapshots (A) and (B), comply with the following rules for an accurate background color change:
   • Your hair, skin, eye, jewelry, makeup and clothing color must not match any colors (directly behind you) in the background. The color contrast between yourself and the backgroud should be as large as possible.
   • When you take a snapshot of yourself (A), no shadow must be seen on the background.
   • When you take a snapshot of the background (B), the webcam and the background position must exactly be the same as in snapshot (A).
3. After snapshots (A) and (B) are taken, press the button "Change background".
   This will replace each matching pixel color found in the same position in (A) and (B) and replace it with a solid color in the final result.
4. If the background colors are not changed correctly, change the tolerance value (1 - 99) and press the button "Change background". You may repeat this step.
   If the tolerance value is small, then less colors will be replaced.
   Start with a small tolerance value and increase it step by step.

Input online webcam passport photo maker Country: AlbaniaAndorraArgentinaArmeniaArubaAustraliaAustriaAzerbaijanBahamasBangladeshBelarusBelgiumBoliviaBrazilBulgariaCanadaChinaColombiaCosta RicaCroatiaCyprusCzech RepublicDenmarkEgyptEstoniaEthiopiaFinlandFranceGeorgiaGermanyGreeceHong KongHungaryIcelandIndiaIndonesiaIran, Islamic Republic ofIrelandIsraelItalyJamaicaJapanKazakhstanKenyaKorea, Republic ofKuwaitLebanonLithuaniaMalaysiaMaldivesMexicoMoldova, Republic ofMoroccoNetherlandsNew ZealandNigeriaNorwayPakistanPalestinian Territory, OccupiedPanamaPeruPhilippinesPolandPortugalQatarRomaniaRussian FederationSingaporeSlovakiaSloveniaSouth AfricaSpainSri LankaSwedenSwitzerlandSyrian Arab RepublicTaiwanThailandTogoTongaTrinidad and TobagoTurkeyUgandaUkraineUnited Arab EmiratesUnited KingdomUnited StatesUruguayVietnamZimbabwe Pass photo size unit: pixels [px] (600 dpi) millimeters [mm] centimeters [cm] inches [in] Pass photo width: in      Allowed value: 0.7867 in - 2.3617 in Pass photo height: in      Allowed value: 0.9833 in - 3.1483 in Head height range:    Minimum: in    Maximum: in     From chin to crown, allowed min: 0.8667 in - max: 1.575 in     -- Or --      Minimum: %    Maximum: %     From chin to crown, allowed min: 60 % - max: 80 % Check values & redraw:      Press button if you have changed a value.     Webcam output: top of hair range eyes chin     - Mouseover the webcam output if the guidelines are not displayed. - Crown is the top of your head without hair Webcam settings:     Optional: Replace the background with a solid color Background color:        Tolerance: Snapshot background:     No snapshot of background taken Change background: