Tips - How to make a Passport photo

[shoot_a_star]

I just took some passport photos for a friend last night and he told me today that the passport officicer said, "they look great".

1. Follow U.S. Passport and U.S Visa photography guide for size, requirement ...etc. They require size of 2 x 2 picture
2. Take picture, crop and resize it to 2 x 2"
3. Create a new file and set the size 4 x 6
4. Copy your 2 x 2 and paste over to 4 x 6 picture
5. Keep doing this 5 more times and you will have a 4x6 picture of 6 of 2 x 2 (2 of 2x2 in a row and you have 3 rows of 2x2)
6. Go to your car and find 19 cents + 1 cent tax :)
7. Take them to Walmart to develope for 19 cents. Save $10-$15 from passport photographer :) and know how to simply create photo passport.

[Curtis N]

Sounds like a good plan to me, with one caveat:
Wal*Mart or anyone else, will crop about 1/8" off each edge of the digital image on a frameless print. You may want to make your canvas slightly bigger to accomodate for that.

[Tog]

...and you forget it if you're a Canadian (I'm British but my daughter's a Canuck).
They rejected my photos of her as not being 'by a professionel photographer' even though they were exactly the right size etc. etc.
They didn't have the name of a professional photographer on the back so they were not valid.
Crazy, huh ?

[shoot_a_star]

Tog:

That is Crrrrrazy!
Curtis: I forgot to mention that, when you go to walmart, make sure to select the edit button. Zoom it all the way to cover your whole picture.

[RAitch]

I thought you meant tips on setting up the shot.

Against a white background with a slave flash lighting it up behind the subject for example.
Canadians are quick to reject photos with shadows. Sometimes I think they just reject them without reason and make one up. Oh well.