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How to make a UK 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 720 × 900 JPEG.
What happens to your file
The Home Office states the rules for a visa photograph, and these are its words: “at least 600 pixels wide and 750 pixels tall” — GOV.UK, on photos for a visa application. “at least 50KB and no more than 6MB” — the same guidance. “show your head, shoulders and upper body” — the same guidance. This page writes exactly 720 × 900 pixels, inside every bound the Home Office publishes.
A UK visa photo and a UK passport photo are different documents with different limits: the visa allows a file up to 6 MB, the passport up to 10 MB.
The Home Office states a minimum size and no maximum, so this page writes 720 × 900 — comfortably above the floor and still a small file.
A printed UK passport photo is 45 mm by 35 mm against a plain cream or light grey background, not white. The white in that rule refers to the paper.
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-coloured background. Those are yours. Every figure on this page was read off the Home Office’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 UK visa need?
at least 600 pixels wide and 750 pixels tall This page writes 720 × 900 pixels, inside those bounds.
What background does it need?
A plain light-coloured background. 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 50 KB?
The Home Office 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.
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.
Related tools
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": 720,
"out_height": 900,
"background": "#ffffff",
"max_bytes": 6291456,
"min_bytes": 51200
}
}'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.