How to print passport photos

You urgently need print passport photos, your trusted photographer is closed and you don't know how to do it? If this is the case, you don't have to worry, printing passport photos is an operation that you can also do directly and comfortably from your computer. Yes, you understood very well! I am not fooling you! Printing passport photos is an operation that can be performed by anyone without any kind of problem.

All you need is a working computer, a printer in good shape, an active Internet connection and a few sheets of photographic paper that you can find in your local electronics store or online, perhaps on Amazon. Clearly, by providing yourself to print passport photos, you will hardly be able to obtain perfect results as well as those that a professional photographic studio can assure but I am sure that following my indications you will hardly be disappointed with what you have achieved.

So if it is your intention to find out how to print passport photos, I invite you to take a few minutes of free time and read the following lines carefully. You will see that in the end you will be able to say that you are very satisfied with the final result and you will be ready to explain how to do it to all your friends as well.

Stampare fototessere su Windows

If you have a Windows computer and want to print passport photos, I suggest you use IDPhotoStudio. It is a free program that allows you to print photos for various types of documents and which is very easy to use. It is also available in a portable version, which does not require installations to function.

To print passport photos with IDPhotoStudio, the first thing you need to do is, therefore, to click here to connect to the website of the software house that develops the program. Once this is done, locate the card related to IDPhotoStudio, press the icon of zip file (the yellow folder located under the download button) and wait for the software download to start and complete.

When the download is complete, open thezip archive you just downloaded to your PC, extract the contents to a folder of your choice and run the executable IDPhotoStudio.exe. In the new window that opens, click on the button Open image and select the photo you want to use to print passport photos. I suggest you select a front photograph with a clear and uniform background. Also, the photo must be in JPG format, the only one supported by the program.

Once this is done expand the drop down menu options and choose the format 35×45 mm (British), which is the one for the identity card, passport and driving license. Then, press the button Opzioni ... to access the printing preferences, select the printer you want to print passport photos with from the drop-down menu Your name and then click on the button Property.

In the window that opens, select the tab layoutpiggy back his Advanced and use the menu Size to choose the paper format on which to print passport photos. Then click on OK to save the changes. Now choose the number of images to be printed on a single sheet using the appropriate adjustment bar (the maximum number of photos allowed varies according to the image format and the type of sheet that are selected) and then presses on Print twice consecutively to start the procedure for printing passport photos.

Know that you can also possibly save the print preview generated by IDPhotoStudio and print passport photos at a later time. To do this, just click on the button Save immagine instead of on Print and choose a folder to export the document to.

Print passport photos on Mac

If you use a Mac and you want to print passport photos I suggest you use iFotoTessere. It is an application that allows you to optimize photos for printing for various types of documents. However, keep in mind that this application is for a fee (costs € 1,09) and that, therefore, to be able to use it you will need to purchase it first.

To print passport photos on Mac with iFotoTessere click here to connect to the application's web page, then press the button View in the Mac App Store and then click on the button indicating the price of the application. Then wait for the download procedure and the app installation procedure to be completed and start iFotoTessere by pressing on its icon added to the Launchpad.

Then wait for the application window to be visible on the desktop, then drag the photo you want to print into it and select the format 4,5 x 3,5 cm , which is the one for British documents. Next, use the control bars present in the window Instruments to enlarge, reduce or rotate the image according to the guidelines that appear on the screen, then choose the number of photos to print from the drop-down menu located at the bottom left.

To finish, click on the button Print, choose the printer and the paper format to use from the appropriate drop-down menus and then click on the button OK to start the procedure for printing passport photos. If you want, you can also export the print preview in JPG or PNG format by clicking on the button Save.

Print passport photos online

Would you like to create passport-sized photos without downloading programs to your PC? Then I suggest you take a look at Create photo ID, a free online service that allows you to create photos for documents from various countries, including cities, in an extremely easy and fast way. To use it, you need to connect to its home page and select the option British from the drop-down menu Automatic configuration for the country.

Next, click the button Validate these parameters, Then Choose File / Browse and select the photo to use for creating your passport photo. After choosing the photo, press the button Next, move the image to match the Create Photo ID guidelines (eyes must be in the green zone and the top of the skull (except hair) must be in the blue zone.

Finally, press the buttons Crop e Download the file and within a few moments the file with your passport photo format will be downloaded to your PC.

Print photo cards on Android

If you have a smartphone or tablet Android, you can create and print passport photos with the latter using Photos - Passports, Identity Cards and Visas: a free app (in its basic version) that allows you to create photos for documents such as identity cards, passports and driving licenses. drives extremely easily and quickly. There is also a paid version (€ 4,19) that does not include advertising banners, it allows you to remove the background from the photos and merge different photos, but for what are your needs you can easily do without it.

The operation of Photographs - Passports, Identity Cards and Visas is really intuitive: after starting the app, press the button NEXT, follow its initial tutorial and tap the button New photo to take a photo (option Camera) or choose one of those already saved on the device (option Gallery).

Next, tap the button Processing begins and press in sequence on the buttons Continue with advertising, Next (three consecutive times) e I understand and agree to straighten and rotate the photo using the tools provided by the app. After this step too, tap the button Done located at the top right, press the buttons Next e I understand and agree, choose the format British (British passport) 35 × 45 mm to create a passport photo in British format and move the image to match the shape displayed on the screen.

At this point, press the button Cut out, choose whether to apply effects in Instagram style to the photo, presses on the buttons Done e Save (top right) and the final image will be automatically saved in the Android Gallery.

If you want a multiple version of your passport photo (optimized for printing), tap the button Print multiple copies, choose the format 3.5 x 5 inches e pulsing sul pulsating Save located at the top right.

Print photo cards on iOS

Also iPhone e iPad offer the possibility to create and print passport photos in a very simple way: the important thing is to turn to the right apps. In this specific case, the “right” app that I recommend you to use is Passport Photo, which you can download and use for free but watermarks the output images. To remove the watermark from all passport photos, you need to purchase the full version of the app for € 1,09, while to remove it from a single print, you just have to accept to see an advertisement.

To create photos in passport format with Passport Photo documents, all you have to do is download the application from the App Store, start it and first press the icon of thelittle man present on its home screen and then on the item city ​​documents (4,5 x 3,5 cm), to choose the photo format suitable for identity cards, passports and British driving licenses.

Next, tap on the icon camera and choose the option library to select a photo already in the iOS Camera Roll or the option Camera to take a photo at the moment. Therefore, authorize the app to access the Camera Roll and / or the camera of your device and, after selecting or taking the photo, use the shape that appears on the screen to adjust the position of your photo.

After this step too, rule saturation, brightness e contrast of the photo, choose the size of the page on which you want to print it, the number of photos to be printed and presses the button Save or button Print, depending on whether you want to save the passport photo or print / share it. To remove the watermark, choose the option to watch the commercial or purchase the full version of the app.

How to print passport photos