About this tool
A print shop charges the same for a 4 × 6 inch photo print whether there is one picture on it or thirty. That is the whole idea here: take one photo, lay copies of it out at a true physical size on a sheet, and get back a PDF you can hand over or print yourself, then cut up with scissors.
Physical size is the part that is easy to get wrong. A JPEG has pixels, not millimetres, so 35 × 45 mm only exists once something decides how the pixels map to paper. This tool writes that decision into the PDF: each copy is placed at exactly the millimetre size you set, rendered at 300 DPI, with 3 mm between neighbours and 5 mm clear at the sheet edges. Print it at 100% and a ruler will agree with you. Print it with “fit to page” switched on and every measurement shifts by a few percent, which is enough to matter. Check one copy with a ruler before you cut.
What this tool does not do is judge your photograph. It has no idea where your face is in the frame, how large your head is relative to the picture, what colour the wall behind you is, or whether you were smiling. Those rules exist, they differ between the various documents people need photos for, and they are checked by a person or a system at the other end — not here. Read the current instructions from wherever you are submitting, get the photo itself right first, and use this only for the arrangement on paper.
The layout happens in your browser using your own device’s processor, and the PDF is assembled locally. Your photograph is not uploaded and no copy of it exists anywhere except on your phone or computer.
How to use this tool
- Choose your photo. One JPG, PNG or WebP. Crop it to the framing you want before you come here — this tool fills the frame from the centre and will cut off whatever does not fit.
- Set the photo size in millimetres. The boxes start at 35 × 45 mm. Anything from 10 to 100 mm per side works. Use the measurements the place you are submitting to asks for.
- Pick the print sheet. 4 × 6 inches is the standard print-shop size and fits six copies at 35 × 45 mm. A4 fits thirty. Copies are centred as a block with 3 mm between them and at least 5 mm clear at the edges.
- Download the PDF and print it at 100%. In the print dialog choose “Actual size” or 100% and switch off “Fit to page” or “Shrink oversized pages”. If you send it to a shop, tell them the same thing.
- Measure one photo with a ruler. Before you cut the sheet up, check one copy against a ruler. If it does not measure what you set, the print scaled and needs to be run again.
What this tool does not do
- It does not assess face position, head height, background, lighting, expression, or compliance with any passport, visa or identity-document standard. It only tiles the picture you give it.
- It cannot promise any office will accept the result. Check the current instructions wherever you are submitting.
- It crops from the centre to fill the frame. Frame the photo yourself first if that matters.
- The physical size only comes out right if the PDF is printed at 100%. Anything set to fit the page will be wrong.
- It does not print, cut or order prints. You get a PDF.
Common questions
Does this check whether my photo meets passport or visa rules?
No, and this is the important thing to understand about it. It does not look at your face at all. Head size, how much of the frame you fill, background colour, shadows, expression, glasses, headwear, how recent the photo is — none of that is examined. This is a layout tool. It repeats the picture you hand it at the physical size you set, and that is the whole of what it does.
How many copies will I get?
It depends on the photo size and the sheet. At the default 35 × 45 mm you get six on a 4 × 6 inch sheet and thirty on A4. The result line tells you the exact count after you run it.
Why did the photo get cropped?
The photo is scaled to fill the frame you asked for and centred, so anything outside that shape is trimmed. If the crop is wrong, use the image cropper first — it has a 35:45 shape option — and then bring the cropped file back here.
The printed photos came out slightly too small.
Almost always the print scaling. Printers and PDF viewers default to shrinking a page a few percent to keep clear of the unprintable margin. Find “Actual size” or 100% in the dialog and turn off any fit-to-page option, then print again.
What resolution is the printed photo?
Each copy is rendered at 300 DPI for the physical size you chose — that is 413 × 531 pixels for a 35 × 45 mm photo. If your source picture is smaller than that, it gets scaled up and will look soft on paper.
Can I print this at home?
You can, on photo paper, but the result depends heavily on your printer's colour and how it handles borderless printing. A print shop with a 4 × 6 inch photo print is usually cheaper and better. Hand them the PDF and say “actual size, no scaling”.
It says the photo dimensions are too large for this sheet.
The size you entered does not leave room for even one copy once the 5 mm margins are taken off. Reduce the millimetre values, or switch the sheet to A4.