By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: July 2026
An Australian passport photo is 35×45 mm with your face 32–36 mm from chin to crown, on a plain white or light-grey background. Upload any straight-on photo and PassportNinja sizes it, checks the head height and whitens the background — free, with a printable 10×15 cm sheet.
Make my photo now →Australia uses a 35×45 mm photo (the Australian Passport Office allows 35–40 mm wide by 45–50 mm high; 35×45 mm sits inside that and is the safe default). The face must be 32–36 mm from chin to crown — a little larger in the frame than the UK or Schengen head size, so pick the Australia template rather than reusing an EU photo.
The Australian Passport Office accepts a plain white or light-grey background; PassportNinja outputs clean, even white, which qualifies as a plain light background. Because the head has to fill 32–36 mm of a 45 mm-tall photo, framing matters: have someone photograph you from about 1.5 m with your whole head and the top of your shoulders in view, so the tool has room to crop correctly.
PassportNinja handles the mechanical part: it crops to the exact size, scales your head to the required height and replaces the background with plain white, then gives you a digital file at 600 dpi plus a printable 10×15 cm sheet. It does not judge lighting, expression or glasses, and it can't guarantee acceptance — that's always the issuing office's call. Follow the checklist for the things a tool can't see.
Australia has a step that surprises people who've only done a European passport: for many application types, two identical printed photos are required and one of them must be endorsed on the back by your guarantor, who writes a certification that it's a true photo of you, signs it and dates it.
That's a human step, so no photo tool completes an Australian application by itself. What it means practically:
The Australian requirement is a plain, uniform, light-coloured background — light grey or off-white is what's preferred, and the reason matters for how you shoot. A pure white background makes light hair, grey hair and a white shirt merge into it, which is exactly what an automated check reads as "unclear outline".
Two practical consequences:
The rest of the specification is standard: 35 × 45 mm, chin-to-crown between 32 and 36 mm (a relatively large head in the frame, so shoot from a normal conversational distance rather than across the room), taken within the last six months, neutral expression with the mouth closed, both eyes clearly visible, no glasses if you can avoid them, no shadows on your face or behind you, and even lighting with no flash reflection on your forehead or glasses.
The head-height check on your result is advisory — if it reports you're outside 32–36 mm, the fix is at the camera (step closer or further back), not in the crop.
35 mm wide by 45 mm high (the office allows up to 40 × 50 mm), with the face 32–36 mm from chin to crown, on a plain white or light-grey background.
Yes. The Australian Passport Office accepts plain white or light-grey, and the tool outputs clean white — a plain light background.
The Australian head size (32–36 mm) is larger in the frame than the UK (29–34 mm) rule, so the crop differs. Pick the Australia template and the head is scaled correctly.
Yes — no account, no watermark. See passport photo size checker to compare formats across countries.