https://openphotoid.com/blog/ Notes from OpenPhotoId on passport and ID photo rules, how the free browser app checks a photo against them, and why it never uploads it. en https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-rejected.html https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-rejected.html Tue, 20 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT The published reasons a U.S. passport photo gets rejected, the rule behind each one, and how to check your own photo before you submit it. https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-check.html https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-check.html Sun, 11 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT OpenPhotoId runs twelve checks on every photo it makes and shows the value each one measured next to the band it was judged against. This is the full list, with the numbers a US passport photo reports, and the things a checklist cannot see. https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-without-uploading.html https://openphotoid.com/blog/passport-photo-without-uploading.html Wed, 07 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT A passport photo has to meet rules most people never see: head height, eye line, background colour, and for an online portal, a file size window. This is what OpenPhotoId does between choosing a photo and downloading the file, why none of it needs a server, and what it cannot judge for you.