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Philippines visa photo
51 × 51 mm at 300 dpi, ready to print. Made on your own device.
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How to make a Philippines 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 602 × 602 JPEG.
What happens to your file
The Department of Foreign Affairs states the rules for a visa photograph, and these are its words: “The image should be 2 inches by 2 inches” — the Philippine e-Visa portal. “The photo must have plain light background” — the same portal. “The face (from forehead edge to bottom of chin) should be 70 to 80% of the photo or one inch height” — the same portal. This page writes 602 × 602 pixels, which is exactly 51 × 51 mm at 300 dpi. Print it at that size and every measurement is right.
The live Philippine e-Visa system publishes no pixel size and no file size at all. It gives a physical size, a format list, a background and a head proportion, and then points at the international civil aviation standard for the rest. This page writes 2 × 2 inches at 300 dpi.
The 600 × 600 and 1 MB figures that circulate for the Philippines come from an older visa system whose site no longer serves a valid certificate. They are not what the current portal asks for, and nobody should be publishing them as though they were.
The portal says “plain light background”, not white. Several Philippine embassies do say white; the system you actually upload to does not.
It also says head coverings are not permitted except for religious reasons, that red-eye photographs are not accepted, and that the photograph must be no more than six months old.
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 plain light background — the portal does not say white. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off the Department of Foreign 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 the Philippines visa need?
51 millimetres by 51, printed. The Department of Foreign Affairs publishes no pixel size and no file size at all, so this page makes that physical size at 300 dpi.
What background does it need?
A plain light background — the portal does not say white. 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.
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": 602,
"out_height": 602,
"background": "#ffffff"
}
}'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.