Schengen Visa Photo Maker (35x45mm) — Free, for All 29 EU Countries
A Schengen short-stay (Type C) visa photo follows one harmonized standard across all 29 Schengen countries — France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the rest: a 35 x 45mm photo, digitally 413 x 531 pixels at 300 DPI, with your face filling about 70–80% of the frame height on a plain white or very light grey background. The frame comes from the EU Visa Code and ICAO Doc 9303, so a photo sized correctly for a French application is sized correctly for a German or Italian one.
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Schengen Visa Photo Maker (35x45mm) — Free, for All 29 EU Countries
A Schengen short-stay (Type C) visa photo follows one harmonized standard across all 29 Schengen countries — France, Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, and the rest: a 35 x 45mm photo, digitally 413 x 531 pixels at 300 DPI, with your face filling about 70–80% of the frame height on a plain white or very light grey background. The frame comes from the EU Visa Code and ICAO Doc 9303, so a photo sized correctly for a French application is sized correctly for a German or Italian one.
Here's the honest part a lot of tools skip: 35 x 45mm is also the standard passport-photo size in the UK, most of Europe, Australia, and many other countries. If your own passport photo is a recent 35 x 45mm one, it is often perfectly reusable for a Schengen application. The "you can't reuse your passport photo" problem mainly affects applicants from square-format countries — most notably the United States, whose 2 x 2 inch (51 x 51mm) photo is the wrong shape for Schengen and has to be re-cropped to 35 x 45mm.
This tool crops and sizes your photo to the 35 x 45mm / 413 x 531px Schengen frame entirely in your browser, with nothing uploaded. One important caveat: while 35 x 45mm is the common baseline, the consulate or visa centre (such as VFS Global) handling your specific application is the final authority on photo rules — confirm their checklist before you submit.
Common questions
Yes. All 29 Schengen countries use the same 35 x 45mm photo standard (413 x 531 pixels at 300 DPI digitally), harmonized by the EU Visa Code and ICAO, so a photo sized for one country's application works for any other. Individual consulates can still add rules around background, recency, or how the photo is submitted, so confirm the specific checklist for your application.
No. A US passport photo is 2 x 2 inches (51 x 51mm) — a square. A Schengen visa photo is 35 x 45mm — a rectangle, taller than it is wide. The shapes are different, so a US passport photo has to be re-cropped to 35 x 45mm, which is exactly what this tool does.
Usually yes, if it's recent. The UK and most European countries use the same 35 x 45mm size for their own passport photos as a Schengen visa requires, so a recent, compliant passport photo is often reusable. Check that it still meets the Schengen background and recency rules (typically taken within the last six months) before reusing it.
White is the safest choice. The Schengen standard allows a plain white or very light grey background, but white is the most universally accepted across consulates and the least likely to be questioned, so use a plain white background if you can.
No. The crop and resize happen entirely in your browser using the Canvas API, so your photo never leaves your device and is not sent to any server.