- Utskriftsstørrelse
- 35 × 45 mm (3.5 × 4.5 cm)
- Pikselstørrelse
- 413 × 531 px
Passport photo for Germany: 35 × 45 mm
This is the frame used for German Schengen visas, national D visas and residence title applications at the German missions. Drop a normal photo above and the editor opens with two steps already prepared: a crop locked to the 35 × 45 mm shape, and a resize fixed at 413 × 531 px. Drag the frame over the face, then download — the result is the exact size the form expects, and PIXLFLW never sends the picture anywhere. Everything runs inside your browser.
What makes this size different
German missions measure the face from the tip of the chin to the hairline and want 32–36 mm of the 45 mm height, on a plain light background that they describe as ideally neutral grey — white is fine in Spain or Italy but is the wrong answer here. Since 1 May 2025 a German passport or ID card photo cannot be handed over on paper at all; it travels digitally from a certified studio or a PointID terminal. The visa photo is the exception that is still a print, which is what this frame produces.
Crop, do not stretch
The single most common mistake is forcing a rectangular phone photo into the document box, which widens or narrows the face until an official checker rejects it. Cropping cuts a correctly shaped piece out of the photo instead, and the locked ratio here makes any other outcome impossible. Leave a little space above the head, keep the eyes in the upper half of the frame and the head roughly centred left to right.
Printing and dpi
413 × 531 px is 35 × 45 mm at 300 dpi, the resolution photo labs print at. A file with those pixel dimensions prints at the correct physical size without any scaling, and it is also what an online form means when it asks for a passport size photo as a JPG.
What this tool does not do
It does not remove or replace the background, and it cannot make a poorly lit snapshot into a compliant one. Photograph yourself against a plain, evenly lit light wall with no shadow behind you, facing the camera with a neutral expression, then crop and size the result here. Doing the framing properly is what the form actually checks.
Free, unlimited, private
No sign-up, no watermark and no daily limit. JPG, PNG, WEBP, HEIC and more go in; JPG comes out, which is what document portals accept. The photo is decoded, cropped and encoded on your own device, so an identity document never leaves it.