Irish passport photo online

For an online application, yes: the DFA says you can have your photo taken at home with a camera, tablet or phone, but someone else must take it — you cannot take a selfie, and you should not use the zoom function. Pick “Irish Passport Online” here to crop that photo to 1200 × 1600 px, a colour JPEG under 9 MB, then upload it in Passport Online; you can apply from the phone or tablet the photo was taken on. The guidelines apply whether your Irish passport application photo is taken at home, by a photo professional or at a photo booth, and a paper form needs 4 identical printed photos instead. If home photos keep being rejected, the DFA suggests a Photo Code booth or a photo provider.

A colour JPEG, not a scanned photo, not less than 715 pixels wide and 951 pixels in height, not larger than 9 MB, taken in the last six months, with no compression, loss or compression artefacts, no barrel or other distortion, and not digitally enhanced or changed. If your original camera JPEG already meets these specifications, upload it as it is; if not, pick “Irish Passport Online” here: it makes a 1200 × 1600 px JPEG and confirms it is under the 9 MB limit. The pose rules apply as well — head to mid torso, a completely plain light grey, white or cream background, a neutral expression, no selfie — and the Passport Service reviews the photo after the online system accepts it and contacts you if it does not meet the guidelines.

Printed, for a paper form: at least 35 × 45 mm and at most 38 × 50 mm (width × height); the print option here makes 35 × 45 mm, which is 413 × 531 px at 300 DPI. Digital, for Passport Online: not less than 715 pixels wide and 951 pixels high, and the guidelines give no pixel maximum — the upper limit they state is the 9 MB file size; the online options here make 1200 × 1600 or 2400 × 3200 px. The DFA sets limits rather than one exact size, and the photo guidelines give no head-size measurement: the framing rule is “from head to mid torso” with visible space between your head and shoulders and the edge of the photo.

No. The DFA answers this directly: “If using a smartphone/tablet to capture your photo, ensure that someone else takes the photo for you”, and applicants who submit selfies are asked to provide another photo, which delays the application. Hand the phone to someone, stand in front of a plain light grey, white or cream background, and have them photograph you from head to mid torso without using the zoom; then crop the result here. This tool cannot tell a selfie from any other photo, so it will not catch this for you.

No. The DFA says the online service will only accept digital photos and scanned photos are not permitted; “not be a scanned photo” is the first of its technical specifications. If all you have is a print, get a new digital photo one of the three ways the DFA lists: someone takes it on a phone, tablet or camera; a photo shop, photographer or pharmacy emails it or puts it on a USB key; or a participating booth gives you a Photo Code. A photo from the first route is what you crop here with the “Irish Passport Online” option.

The photo guidelines give no prices for photo shops, pharmacies, photographers or the Photo Me and ID Station Online booths that issue Photo Codes. For an online application the DFA also accepts a photo that someone takes of you at home on a phone, tablet or camera, and this page turns it into a 1200 × 1600 px Irish passport photo free of charge — nothing to buy, no watermark, no upload. A paper form needs 4 identical prints; the print sheet here puts 8 copies of the 35 × 45 mm photo on one 4 × 6 in print for whatever your lab charges for a single print.

Only the file. As an Irish passport photo online checker it makes a 1200 × 1600 or 2400 × 3200 px JPEG, above the DFA minimum of 715 × 951 px, shows “under the 9 MB limit ✓” when the file passes, and warns when the cropped area was smaller than the output size and had to be enlarged, whether from a small photo or from zooming in too far. It does not check the background, expression, glasses, shadows, whether the photo is a selfie or whether it was taken in the last six months; the Passport Service reviews the photo after the online system accepts it and contacts you if it does not meet the guidelines.

An infant or very young child who cannot support themselves is photographed lying down on a plain, white surface; hands or arms supporting the child must not be visible, no one else should appear in the photo, and soothers or pacifiers cannot be present because they can obscure facial features. The DFA asks guardians to make every effort to ensure that the child’s expression is natural, that they are not smiling and their mouth is not open. For babies and small children (newborn to 36 months) the guidelines add that, if prompted, you can assist the Passport Service “by using the cropping tool to manually frame your child’s face”, and the face “does not need to rest perfectly within the lines of the Oval provided”. That cropping tool is the DFA’s own and works on the photograph you have already uploaded; the “Irish Passport Online” option here is a separate crop to 1200 × 1600 px that you make before uploading.

Digital photos for Passport Online must be in colour; the DFA converts them to black and white during the application, and the photo on the passport is black and white. For printed photos with a paper form the DFA recommends black and white, because they are digitally printed onto the passport in black and white, but it also accepts colour photos. This tool saves colour JPEGs and does not convert them to black and white; the DFA accepts colour on both routes.

The DFA photo guidelines give one set of rules for online applications for a Passport Book or Passport Card and do not separate renewals from first applications: a colour JPEG of at least 715 × 951 px, under 9 MB, not scanned, not a selfie, taken in the last six months. Use the “Irish Passport Online” option for a renewal as well. Your previous passport photo cannot be reused: the DFA says no to that question, because the International Civil Aviation Organisation requires passport photos to be taken within the last 6 months.

Choose “Paper application, printed” and download the print sheet: a 4 × 6 in JPG with 8 copies of the 35 × 45 mm photo and grey cut lines. Order it as a normal 4 × 6 in print at 100 % (actual size), with no fit, fill or borderless option, on photo-quality paper, then cut along the lines; the DFA wants the reverse of the photos white and unglazed. A single 35 × 45 file sent to a lab is rescaled to fill the paper and comes out the wrong size. Four identical photos go with the paper form, and your witness writes the form number on the back of two of them and signs and stamps those two.

No. The crop, the JPEG and the print sheet are all made inside your browser on your own device; nothing is sent to ToolGale or to anyone else, and nothing is stored. The only upload happens afterwards, when you add the downloaded JPG to your own application in Passport Online.