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Print a UK passport photo (35 x 45 mm) on a 6x4 print
The paper UK passport form asks for printed photos 45 mm high by 35 mm wide, and 8 of them fit on one ordinary 6 x 4 inch photo print. WinPhoto ID checks your photo against the published rules and makes that print as a single image for a photo lab. The online application takes a digital photo, not a print: see below.
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 6 x 4 inch image at 300 dpi with as many copies as fit, each with a thin grey line around it.
- Order one ordinary 6 x 4 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.
- 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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UK passport for a baby or child, paper application (printed photos)
35 mm wide x 45 mm high: 8 copies on the sheet. GOV.UK asks for photos printed to a professional standard and not a cut-down version of a larger picture: print the sheet at a photo lab, not at home, and cut only along its lines. The background must be cream or light grey, and the photo taken in the last month. A baby under one may have their eyes closed, and you may support the head with your hand as long as the hand does not show.
measure 45 millimetres (mm) high by 35mm wide (the standard size used in photo booths in the UK)
Official page, read on 4 November 2026. -
UK passport, paper application (printed photos)
35 mm wide x 45 mm high: 8 copies on the sheet. GOV.UK asks for photos printed to a professional standard and not a cut-down version of a larger picture: print the sheet at a photo lab, not at home, and cut only along its lines. The background must be cream or light grey, and the photo taken in the last month.
measure 45 millimetres (mm) high by 35mm wide (the standard size used in photo booths in the UK)
Official page, read on 4 November 2026. -
Northern Ireland photocard driving licence (DVA), printed photo for postal applications
35 mm wide x 45 mm high: 8 copies on the sheet. nidirect asks for printed photos of high quality, such as from a booth or studio (home prints are unlikely to be good enough), and says not to trim photos to reach 45 x 35 mm: print the sheet at a photo lab and cut only along its lines. The background must be light grey or cream, and the photo taken in the last month. Applying online instead? Upload your own uncropped photo: nidirect says the crop is done for you.
45mm high x 35mm wide (however, don't trim your photographs to meet this condition)
Official page, read on 5 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.
- UK Electronic Travel Authorisation (ETA), face photo Its page only checks your photo. In the UK ETA app, the app takes your face photo itself. If you apply online instead, for example for someone who isn't with you, GOV.UK says the photo must not be altered by computer software, and must show your head, shoulders and upper body. So this page checks your photo as it is and never changes or re-saves it: upload that same file. Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
- UK passport, online application (digital photo) Its page only checks your photo. GOV.UK crops the photo itself and asks you not to crop a photo taken on your own device, and someone else must take it. So this page checks your photo as it is and never crops or re-saves it: upload that same file. Official page, read on 4 November 2026.
Where to order the print
The sheet is an ordinary 6 x 4 inch photo, so any shop, kiosk or online lab that prints photos of that size can print it. For example, from each shop's own page:
- Boots Photo lists 6 x 4 inch photo prints among its print sizes Boots Photo's page, read on 11 November 2026.
WinPhoto has no link with these shops. They print photos; they don't check a photo against any document's rules. Sizes, services and prices change: check the shop.
Questions
- How many photos fit on one 6 x 4 inch print?
- For the documents on this page, 8 on the sheet WinPhoto ID makes. 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 6 x 4 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.