DIY Passport photos

[Goochie]

I'm thinking about taking my wife's passport photo myself and printing it at home. The passport agency website says home printed photos are unlikeley to be acceptable - but unless you have a very bad printer, I dont see whats going to be wrong with it.

Has anyone got experience of DIY passport photos?

[Mandat]

I did my wifes passport photos and printed them on photograph paper with a HP Photosmart inkjet. The photos were accepted with no problems.

[olimeads]

There a loads of aspects to consider, at work we have a double sided A3 page of them. i will copy it and post it here for you.


Oli

[Glosphil]

Mandat said:

I did my wifes passport photos and printed them on photograph paper with a HP Photosmart inkjet. The photos were accepted with no problems.

Same here. Follow the guide lines that are supplied with a passport application form and you should have no trouble.

One of mine was rejected because my head was slightly tilted to one side - my response of 'I always hold my head like that' was not accepted!

[diesel head]

They are not easy to get right, and I have taken literally hundreds when I worked for Jessops, however if you are willing to read the instructions and spend a bit of time getting them right I don't see any reason why you shouldn't manage to do them at home.

Incidentally though I doubt the quality of the print will be the problem its more likely to be the positioning and the framing of the picture.

[gary71]

Agreee with all the above. I used a Canon Pixima and have done all mine including the kids, even when they were very small.

I stand them against a builders beige wall and then carefully bounce the flash to avoid reflections from glasses and shadows on the wall.

[Hugo a Gogo]

I took the kids passport pictures when they were babies (pic taken from above with them lying on their back on a bedsheet), cropped them down to the right size and got a normal printing shop to print them for pennies

[GetCarter]

I take them from time to time. just follow these instruction and you'll be fine.

http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/files/ips/live/assets/do...

[Goochie]

GetCarter said:

I take them from time to time. just follow these instruction and you'll be fine.

http://www.ips.gov.uk/cps/files/ips/live/assets/do...

Thanks for the link!

[covboy]

Tried to do some for a friend a while back - tried to follow all the guidelines, but when she took them into the Post Office for checking, she was told her eyes were in the wrong place !!!! "Did she want to use their booth to get some better ones "

When my own passport was due I bit the bullet and used the local travel centre booth - only to have them rejected because of reflections in my glasses.

I now have a passport with a photo (without glasses) that looks like my Dad !!

[ol]

I've done mine and my partners myself- just don't smile, keep your head straight and get a white background. We've never had any refused or returned so far...

[olimeads]

As promised.

[Fordo]

I just had to replace my driving licence photo, and printed it myself.

the list of specs mentioned nothing about producing or printing the photo yourself- but it did say it must be a true likeness and not digitally altered.

They also requested that it must have no shadow, which was hard to avoid, but managed it in the end.


Daft in this day and age - i take photo digitally, print it, someone at their end scans it in, and then prints in on licence. what a waste of time, why cant i just upload my photo to an online system, where i could pay too? would make much more sense. less paperwork too, and surely less labour involved. Plus they could have something that checks exif data if they are concerned about people digitally altering photos.

hmm.... i should learn to program stuff