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Print an Indian visa or PAN card photo on a 4x6 print
The photo pasted on India's paper visa form is 2 x 2 inches, and the PAN card form asks for 4.5 x 3.5 cm: both fit several times on one ordinary 4 x 6 inch photo print, which WinPhoto ID makes as a single image after checking your photo. For the Indian passport and the OCI card there is no print sheet here: India's passport booklet says a photograph in computer print will not be accepted, and the OCI photo is uploaded online.
Your photo stays on your device: nothing is uploaded, and no face is recognised.
How it works
- Choose your document below and check your photo on its page. The check is free and runs in your browser: the photo is not uploaded.
- Save the print sheet from that page: one 4 x 6 inch image at 300 dpi with as many copies as fit, each with a thin grey line around it.
- Order one ordinary 4 x 6 inch print of the sheet at a photo counter, a kiosk or an online lab, with no border and no cropping or zoom to fill the paper. Or print it yourself on 4 x 6 inch photo paper at 100% (actual size), not "fit to page", if your document's rules below leave room for a home print.
- Measure one copy with a ruler before you cut. If the shop enlarged, shrank or cropped the print, the photo is the wrong size: ask for a reprint at actual size. Then cut along the grey lines.
Checking your photo is free. The print sheet comes with your document's photo: €6.99, paid once for that document, with the exact file and unlimited retakes for 30 days. No subscription.
Documents whose page saves a print sheet
Choose your document: its page checks your photo in your browser, free, then saves the sheet. The indented words are the issuing authority's own, from the official page linked beside them, read on the date given. WinPhoto is photo software, not an application service. WinPhoto is not affiliated with any government. Only the authority decides whether it accepts a photo.
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Indian PAN (Permanent Account Number) card application photo (Form 93 / Form 95 / PAN change request, photos pasted on the form or acknowledgement)
4.5 cm x 3.5 cm (35 mm wide x 45 mm high): 8 copies on the sheet. The new PAN forms under the Income-tax Rules, 2026 (Form 93 for Indian citizens, Form 95 for foreign citizens, and the PAN change form) ask for two recent colour photos, 4.5 x 3.5 cm, on a white background. Older pages still give 3.5 x 2.5 cm, the old Form 49A size. Applying online with Aadhaar e-KYC needs no photo: your Aadhaar photo is used. For a scanned upload, Protean's pages give an older spec (3.5 x 2.5 cm at 200 DPI, JPEG, 20 KB, or 50 KB in e-Sign mode): this page makes the print.
Recent colour photograph of the applicant (4.5 cm x 3.5 cm)
Official page, read on 4 November 2026. -
Indian regular (paper) visa photo: digital upload on indianvisaonline.gov.in and the print pasted on the signed form
2 x 2 inches: 2 copies on the sheet. This is the photo for India's regular (paper) visa, applied for on indianvisaonline.gov.in and handed in at an Indian mission or visa centre, not the e-Visa. The portal takes a square JPEG of 350 to 1000 pixels and 10 to 300 KB; missions also want the same photo printed 2 x 2 inches for the form. Check the page of the mission where you apply: some ask for more.
(i) Size – 2 inch x 2 inch(51 mm x 51 mm)
Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
No print sheet for these
The pages of these documents save no print sheet: the document takes a digital photo, the office or a professional takes the photo, or its rules leave no room for a print made this way. Don't order a print for them from this page.
- India e-Visa (e-Tourist, e-Business, e-Medical, etc.) applicant photograph Its page makes the digital file, and no print sheet. Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
- Indian passport (paper form at DPC/SPC/CSC in India; ICAO digital upload for applications through Indian missions abroad) Its page makes the digital file, and no print sheet. Applying in India? No photo is needed at a Passport Seva Kendra, where it is taken, and photos printed on a computer are not accepted on paper forms. This page makes the 630 x 810 pixel file Indian missions abroad ask for. Some missions want photos unaltered by software: check yours before you replace the background. Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
- Indian passport for a child under 4 (printed photo carried to the PSK/POPSK/Passport Office; ICAO digital upload for applications through Indian missions abroad) Its page makes the digital file, and no print sheet. In India, a child under 4 needs one recent printed photo, 4.5 x 3.5 cm on a white background, brought to the Passport Seva Kendra; from age 4 the photo is taken there. This page makes a 630 x 810 pixel file of the same shape, the size Indian missions abroad ask for. Have it printed on photo paper: photos in computer print are refused on paper forms. Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
- Overseas Citizen of India (OCI) card application photo Its page makes the digital file, and no print sheet. The OCI photo needs a plain light background that is not white, unlike most Indian documents. A replaced background here is light grey. Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
Where to order the print
The sheet is an ordinary 4 x 6 inch photo, so any shop, kiosk or online lab that prints photos of that size can print it.
Questions
- How many photos fit on one 4 x 6 inch print?
- For the documents on this page, it depends on the photo's size: 8 at 35 x 45 mm; 2 at 51 x 51 mm. The sheet leaves a 3 mm margin and a 2 mm gap between copies, so that a print trimmed slightly at the edges still holds whole photos.
- Does the print have to be at actual size?
- Yes. The sheet is made at 300 dpi for 4 x 6 inch paper, so each copy is the document's size only when the print is not enlarged, shrunk or cropped to fill the paper. Measure one copy before you cut.
- Will the shop check that the photo meets the rules?
- No. A photo counter prints the sheet as an ordinary photo and does not check it against any document's rules. WinPhoto ID's check compares your photo with the published rules as we read them on the date each page gives. Only the authority decides whether it accepts a photo.
- Is my photo uploaded?
- No. The check and the print sheet are made in your browser and the photo stays on your device. The one exception is the Detail check, which is opt-in and comes with a document's photo.