By ShinobiTools Team · Last updated: July 2026
A Canadian passport photo is an unusually large 50×70 mm with your face 31–36 mm from chin to crown, on a plain white background. Upload any straight-on photo and PassportNinja sizes it exactly and whitens the background — free. One important Canada-only rule is covered below, so read it before you print.
Make my photo now →Canada is one of the few countries that uses a 50 × 70 mm photo — larger than the 35×45 mm used across most of Europe — so a standard EU photo will be the wrong size. Pick the Canada template and the tool scales your head into the required 31–36 mm band.
Read this before assuming a home photo is enough. For an actual Canadian passport, the program requires the photos to show the commercial photographer's or studio's name, full address and the date the photo was taken on the back of one photo. No online tool — including this one — can add that stamp, because it's proof the photo was taken by a recognised photographer.
So PassportNinja is the fast, free way to get the size, head height and white background exactly right (great for checking your framing, for other Canadian ID, PR-card and citizenship uses, and for seeing what a compliant photo looks like), but for a passport you'll usually still hand the correct-size file to a photographer to print and stamp, or have them retake it. We'd rather tell you that up front than have your application bounced.
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.
Canada is the one country in this list where a home-made photo can't finish the job on its own, and it's worth being upfront about that rather than letting you find out at the counter.
A Canadian passport application takes two identical prints, and the back of one of them has to carry the photographer's or studio's name and address plus the date the photo was taken. That is an attestation about who took the picture — a piece of information no software can supply about your own living-room wall.
So what is this page useful for? Two real things:
Canada does not use a digital photo upload for a standard adult passport — the paper application with the two prints is the route, so plan for printing rather than uploading. Always confirm against the official IRCC photo page for your specific application before you submit.
50 mm wide by 70 mm high, with the face 31–36 mm from chin to crown, on a plain white background. It's larger than the European 35×45 mm format.
You can get the size and background exactly right here, but Canada's passport program requires the photographer's name, address and the date on the back of the photo. A home photo without that is usually not accepted for the passport itself, though it's fine for getting the framing right and for many other uses.
Canada simply standardised on a 50×70 mm print. Don't try to stretch a 35×45 mm photo to fit — pick the Canada template so the head is scaled to the right 31–36 mm height.
Yes — no account, no watermark. The tool is free; only a physical photographer's stamp (a Canada-specific passport rule) sits outside what any online tool can do.