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Singapore passport photo, made and checked in your browser
A Singapore passport photo is a 400 × 514 pixel file for ICA’s e-Services, or a 35 × 45 mm print, on a white background. OpenPhotoId is a free passport photo maker that makes the photo on your own device, crops it to the official rules and checks the result before you download it. No sign-up, no watermark, and nothing is uploaded.
Make a Singapore passport photo
Singapore passport photo size and rules
These are the numbers the app uses. The file rules come from ICA’s photo guidelines at ica.gov.sg, the print rules from the Singapore Embassy in Washington’s passport page.
| Rule | Singapore, passport |
|---|---|
| e-Services file | 400 × 514 px · JPG, JPEG, PNG, HEIC or HEIF · up to 8 MB |
| Print size | 35 × 45 mm, no border |
| Background | white; light grey if your hair or head covering is white |
| Face | 25–35 mm, chin to crown · 55.6–77.8% of the photo |
| Glasses | eyes clearly shown, no flash reflection; no tinted glasses or sunglasses |
| Age of the photo | taken within the last 3 months |
| Editing | “your photograph must not be altered or enhanced in any way”, including “the usage of photo editing software” |
The app saves the Singapore passport photo as a 400 × 514 JPEG, the size ICA names for e-Services, and the same photo prints at 35 × 45 mm. Every entry, with its official page, is on the supported documents list, and the other sizes are compared on passport photo size.
Keep your own white background
ICA says the photograph must not be altered or enhanced, and that includes photo editing software. So take the Singapore passport photo in front of a plain white wall, and in the app choose Background, then Leave as it is. The app then only crops and scales the photo, and the background check measures your own wall against white. If that check does not pass, take the photo again against a whiter wall rather than replacing it. Leave the finishing options off too.
The app checks the background against white. If your hair or head covering is white, ICA’s rules ask for light grey instead, and the white check will not tell you whether a grey wall is right.
How the photo is made
- Pick the Singapore passport, then choose a photo; on a phone, the photo picker also lets you take one.
- The app finds your face from five landmarks and measures its tilt.
- Under Background, choose “Leave as it is” to keep the wall behind you.
- The crop lands in the middle of the head-height, eye-line and centring bands at once. Three sliders let you move within them.
- Twelve checks run on the finished file, and the face is detected again on the output.
What each check measures is explained in what a passport photo check can measure.
Printing a Singapore passport photo
For paper, the web app and the Android app tile the 35 × 45 mm photo on a 4×6, 5×7, A4 or Letter sheet with cutting guides: eight on a 4×6 in sheet, ten on 5×7 in, 32 on A4 and 30 on Letter. The Singapore Embassy asks for high-quality paper with a matt or semi-matt finish, so order it that way at the photo shop. Print at actual size, not “Fit to page”, and measure one photo before you cut: it should be 35 mm across. More on printing the sheet at actual size.
Before you submit a Singapore passport photo
- Face the camera straight on, head straight, with your head and shoulders in frame.
- Light your face evenly, with no flash reflection or shadow. A window works, direct sun does not.
- Only you in the picture: no chair, toys or other people.
- A portal or an officer can still reject a photo for reasons no software can measure. Read the checklist rather than assuming a pass.
Taking the Singapore passport photo yourself? See how to take a passport photo at home, and which documents need a white background.
Free, private, and on every device
Every feature is free, with no account and no watermark. The face detector and the matting model run on your device, so the photo never leaves it, and after the first visit the app works offline. It runs in any modern browser, on desktop or phone, and there are apps for macOS, Windows and Android; the iPhone and iPad download is coming back soon.