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Australia visa photo
1200 × 1600, under 3 MB. The Department of Home Affairs’s own numbers.
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How to make a Australia visa photo
- Drop a photo of yourself against a plain, evenly lit wall.
- Move the box so your head and shoulder tops fill it.
- Press Make photo and download the 1200 × 1600 JPEG.
What happens to your file
The Department of Home Affairs states the rules for a visa photograph, and these are its words: “in digital JPEG format between 70Kb and 3.5Mb” — the Department of Home Affairs. “the preferred resolution is 1200x1600 pixels” — the same page. “taken against a neutral or light grey coloured background that contrasts with the applicant’s face” — the same page. This page writes exactly 1200 × 1600 pixels, inside every bound the Department of Home Affairs publishes.
The numbers almost every other site publishes for an Australian visa photo — 35 to 40 mm wide, 45 to 50 mm high, a chin-to-crown measurement of 32 to 36 mm — are the CITIZENSHIP figures. They are on a different page for a different application, and they do not apply here. The printed visa photograph is a flat 45 × 35 mm with no published head-height rule at all.
1200 × 1600 is the department’s word “preferred”, not a minimum or a maximum. It publishes neither.
Two of the department’s own pages disagree about the background: one says neutral or light grey, the other says white or light grey. Light grey satisfies both.
The department also says a scan of a photo, or a photograph of a photo, is not acceptable.
The crop and the encode happen in your browser. A photograph of your face, attached to an application, is exactly the kind of file that should not travel to a stranger’s server, and here it does not.
What we cannot check for you: that the photograph is recent, in colour, evenly lit, and taken against a neutral or light grey background that contrasts with your face. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off the Department of Home Affairs’s own page on 2026-09-10; if it has changed since, the authority is right and we are not.
Questions
What size photo does a Australia visa need?
in digital JPEG format between 70Kb and 3.5Mb This page writes 1200 × 1600 pixels, inside those bounds.
What background does it need?
A neutral or light grey background that contrasts with your face. A plain wall in even daylight is the easiest way to get one — stand a good arm’s length in front of it so your own shadow falls away.
Is my photograph uploaded anywhere?
No. A JPG, PNG or WebP is cropped and encoded by your own browser; the page works with the network unplugged. Only a format the browser cannot decode, such as HEIC from an iPhone, takes the cloud path, and the page says so before it does.
Why does the file have to be at least 70 KB?
The Department of Home Affairs sets a floor as well as a ceiling, to stop people uploading a thumbnail. This page reaches it by keeping quality high rather than padding the file, and tells you if a photograph is too plain to get there.
Can I print this one instead?
Yes. The Department of Home Affairs gives the printed photograph as 35 × 45 mm, and the file this page makes prints to that size cleanly.
Do it once, not on every form
A form that wants a square JPEG under 240 KB says so on the page. The Fylane extension reads that, fits your photo to it, and puts it in the field — without you working out what 240 KB looks like.
And it keeps the result. The next application that asks for a résumé, a cover letter and a photo fills all three from one tap, each one refitted to what that site accepts.
Your files stay in the browser, encrypted, on your machine. Nothing is uploaded to keep them and nothing is sent anywhere to fill a form.
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Do this in code
curl -X POST https://api.fylane.dev/v1/jobs \
-H "Authorization: Bearer $FYLANE_API_KEY" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d '{
"file_id": "<file id>",
"operation": "image.id-photo",
"options": {
"out_width": 1200,
"out_height": 1600,
"background": "#ffffff",
"max_bytes": 3584000,
"min_bytes": 71680
}
}'The same operation, image.id-photo — A photograph for an identity document: exactly the pixels an authority asks for, under exactly the bytes it allows. Crop it by eye, or let the subject centre it. Upload first with the quickstart; every option is on the operations page. 500 free credits a month, then $5 per thousand.