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Passport size photo for US visa (DS-160)

Crop and resize a photo to exactly 2 × 2 inch (600 × 600 px) and hold the file under 240 KB — all in your browser. No upload, no sign-up.

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Crop it here, automatically

Drop a photo and the face is found right in your browser — the frame is placed for US visa (DS-160) and the download is exactly 600 × 600 px. Nothing is sent anywhere.

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Face detection runs inside this browser tab. The photo is never uploaded.

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Print size
2 × 2 inch
Pixel frame
600 × 600 px
File size
≤ 240 KB

Passport photo for US visa (DS-160): 2 × 2 inch

This is the frame used for the photo you upload inside Form DS-160, the online application every US nonimmigrant visa goes through — visitor, student, work and exchange alike. Drop a normal photo above and the editor opens with two steps already prepared: a crop locked to the 2 × 2 inch shape, and a resize fixed at 600 × 600 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

The DS-160 upload checks a range rather than one size: the image has to be square, between 600 × 600 and 1200 × 1200 pixels, in 24-bit colour, compressed no harder than 20:1, and 240 KB or less. 600 × 600 is the corner of that range that always clears the byte cap, which is why this page targets it. If the upload is refused anyway, the confirmation page comes out with an X where the photo should be — then you take one printed 2 × 2 inch photo to the embassy along with that page.

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

600 × 600 px is 2 × 2 inch 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.

Keeping the file under 240 KB

US visa (DS-160) caps the upload as well as the frame, so the download dialog opens with a 240 KB budget already set. The encoder searches for the highest JPEG quality that still fits under that ceiling instead of picking a fixed quality and hoping, and it shows the real byte count before you save. If 240 KB cannot be reached at 600 × 600 px even at low quality, the pixel dimensions are reduced too and the result is reported with its new width and height — the tool never quietly hands you a file the portal will reject. A tightly cropped head-and-shoulders photo also compresses far better than a full-body shot squeezed into the same bytes, which is one more reason to place the crop frame carefully.

Questions

Frequently asked questions

01How do I make a US visa (DS-160) passport size photo online?

Drop a normal photo on the panel at the top of this page. The face is found automatically and the frame is placed on the head at 2 × 2 inch, so what you see is already the finished photo — drag or zoom if you want it different, then download 600 × 600 px. Nothing is uploaded: the detection, the crop and the export all run in your browser.

02Does it crop the photo around the face by itself?

Yes. The panel locates the face, works out where the crown and the chin are, and sizes the frame so the head fills the share of the picture the standard asks for with the eyes on the right line. It is a starting point, not a verdict: the frame can be dragged and zoomed, and the panel shows the head height it achieved so you can judge it. If no face is found — a scan, an unusual pose, a picture with no person in it — you get a plain message and a manual cropper locked to the same 2 × 2 inch shape.

03What are the exact dimensions for US visa (DS-160)?

2 × 2 inch, which is 600 × 600 px at 300 dpi. That is the frame this page produces, so the file matches what the form asks for without you doing any arithmetic.

04Can I turn a normal photo into a passport size photo?

Yes — that is exactly what the crop does. A phone photo has the wrong shape, so it has to be cut to the document frame rather than squeezed into it; the locked ratio makes that impossible to get wrong. Leave a little space above the head and keep the face centred, and the result is a valid frame.

05Can this change the background to white?

No. PIXLFLW crops, resizes and compresses — it does not remove or replace backgrounds, and any tool that claims to do it perfectly from an ordinary snapshot will usually leave halos around the hair that an official checker catches. Photograph yourself against a plain, evenly lit light wall with no shadow behind you, then crop and size the result here.

06How do I keep the photo under 240 KB?

The download dialog opens with a 240 KB budget already set: the encoder searches for the highest JPEG quality that still fits and shows the real byte count before you save. If 240 KB cannot be reached by quality alone it reduces the pixel dimensions too and tells you what it ended up with, rather than handing you a file the portal will reject.

07Are my photos uploaded to a server?

No. PIXLFLW runs entirely in your browser: images are opened, edited and exported locally on your device and are never uploaded, stored or seen by anyone.

08Is it really free? Are there watermarks or limits?

Yes, completely free — no sign-up, no watermarks and no daily limits. The only practical limit is your browser memory for very large files (up to 20 MB per image).

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