Passport size photo with your name and date

Choose a photo of you taken at home, type your name, and get a passport size photo with your name and the date of the photograph printed on a white strip at the bottom: face centered, plain off-white background, the text sized to fit. The date is today's unless you change it. It comes in 35x45 mm or 2x2 inches. One download every 24 hours is free across the tools on this site.

How to make a photo with name and date

1. Choose a photo of you facing the camera, head and shoulders, or drop it on the page. Drop another one any time to replace it.
2. Type your name as it appears on your form. It starts large and gets smaller as you type so it stays on one line; a very long name goes onto two lines.
3. Check the date: it is today's, written DD/MM/YYYY. Change it if your photo was taken on another day.
4. Pick 35x45 mm or 2x2 inches and download a JPG at your photo's own resolution, never enlarged.

What the name and date look like

Your name and the date of the photograph are printed in black, centered, on a white strip across the bottom of the photo. The strip sits inside the photo's size, so a 35x45 mm photo stays 35x45 mm, with your face framed in the part above it.

Which forms ask for name and date on the photo

Some recruitment exam forms, such as those of SSC and UPSC, and other application forms ask for a recent photo with the candidate's name and the date the photo was taken printed under it. Each notification sets its own rules for the photo: its size in pixels and kilobytes, the background, and how recent it must be. Read the instructions of your form, and resize the downloaded photo if it asks for a file size the photo is over.

Passport size and 2x2

In India, passport size is 35x45 mm, the size most exam and application forms mean. The tool finds your eyes, chin and the top of your hair, levels your head and sizes it in the part above the strip. 2x2 inches is the square photo some forms and visas ask for. If the photo has more than one face, or none the tool can find, click or tap yours.

How to take the photo at home

1. Face soft light, such as a window in daytime, so neither side of your face is in shadow.
2. Stand a step in front of a plain light wall, so your hair and shoulders separate from it.
3. Have someone hold the phone at eye level, about a meter and a half away, with the main camera rather than the selfie one.
4. Look straight at the camera with a neutral expression, eyes open, nothing covering your face, and your head and shoulders in the picture.

A plain light background

The tool keeps you, hair included, and replaces the room with an off-white background with a soft shadow, so the photo looks taken against a wall rather than cut out. It is not flat pure white, and other colors are not offered.

Where an edited photo is not accepted

The Indian passport office takes its own photo when you apply, and some offices refuse a photo edited by software. Check the rules of the office or form that will receive your photo.

Limits

It makes one photo per download, not a sheet of copies to cut, and does not resize the file to a set number of kilobytes. The strip holds your name and one date. It needs a photo with a person in it. Hair against a wall of the same color can lose a few fine strands.

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