What is the easiest way to make passport photos with adobe photoshop 6 ?

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I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

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JD
Apr 16, 2005
On 16-Apr-05 11:52, wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

Google is your friend:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/download/download_884 .html

http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo_specifications.htm


JD..
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Mister Max
Apr 16, 2005
JD posted:

On 16-Apr-05 11:52, wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

Google is your friend:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/download/download_884 .html
http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo_specifications.htm
– Which will tell you what the OP posted.

Here’s what I did for my son earlier this week:
* Adjust the photo so it looks good – curves, sharpen, blur the background, etc
* Select the Crop tool (C). At the top of the screen specify 2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
* Crop so that the face height (not width) is a little more than half the total height, and the eyes are about 2/3 of the way up.
* Save. You now have one passport photo, but you should have 4; 2 to get the passport and 2 to take with you in case you need a replacement, for visa, etc. The spares are free, so make them.
* Enlarge the canvas to twice the height and twice the width so that you have room for 4 copies of the photo. Should be 4 inches square. Enlarge from one corner, not from the middle.
* Use Ctrl-J three times to make 3 more copies of the picture, each on its own layer.
* Drag the three new layers, one at a time, into position. * Ctrl-shift-E to flatten
* Print

– Max


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Brian
Apr 17, 2005
Mister Max wrote:
JD posted:

On 16-Apr-05 11:52, wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

Google is your friend:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/download/download_884 .html
http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo_specifications.htm

– Which will tell you what the OP posted.

Here’s what I did for my son earlier this week:
* Adjust the photo so it looks good – curves, sharpen, blur the background, etc
* Select the Crop tool (C). At the top of the screen specify 2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
* Crop so that the face height (not width) is a little more than half the total height, and the eyes are about 2/3 of the way up.
* Save. You now have one passport photo, but you should have 4; 2 to get the passport and 2 to take with you in case you need a replacement, for visa, etc. The spares are free, so make them.
* Enlarge the canvas to twice the height and twice the width so that you have room for 4 copies of the photo. Should be 4 inches square. Enlarge from one corner, not from the middle.
* Use Ctrl-J three times to make 3 more copies of the picture, each on its own layer.
* Drag the three new layers, one at a time, into position. * Ctrl-shift-E to flatten
* Print

– Max
Naturally, it goes without saying that you would have to resize/resample the image "before" you start following Max’s crop procedure. ie. Resize the images so that the face is the specified height at a decent resolution and then crop around it to meet the overall specs for a passport photo.

Brian.
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Mister Max
Apr 17, 2005
Brian posted:

Mister Max wrote:
JD posted:

On 16-Apr-05 11:52, wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

Google is your friend:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/download/download_884 .html
http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo_specifications.htm

– Which will tell you what the OP posted.

Here’s what I did for my son earlier this week:
* Adjust the photo so it looks good – curves, sharpen, blur the background, etc
* Select the Crop tool (C). At the top of the screen specify 2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
* Crop so that the face height (not width) is a little more than half the total height, and the eyes are about 2/3 of the way up. * Save. You now have one passport photo, but you should have 4; 2 to get the passport and 2 to take with you in case you need a replacement, for visa, etc. The spares are free, so make them. * Enlarge the canvas to twice the height and twice the width so that you have room for 4 copies of the photo. Should be 4 inches square. Enlarge from one corner, not from the middle.
* Use Ctrl-J three times to make 3 more copies of the picture, each on its own layer.
* Drag the three new layers, one at a time, into position. * Ctrl-shift-E to flatten
* Print

– Max
Naturally, it goes without saying that you would have to resize/resample the image "before" you start following Max’s crop procedure. ie. Resize the images so that the face is the specified height at a decent resolution and then crop around it to meet the overall specs for a passport photo.

Brian.
Brian, you don’t have to (and shouldn’t) resize/resample "before." The crop tool will resize and resample automatically once you define the dimensions.
– Max


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Slideshows of Angkor Wat, Bali, Crete, France, Malaysia, Maui, Morocco, Mt Holly, Myanmar (new), Sicily, St Tropez, Singapore, Thailand (new), Tour de France.

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Brian
Apr 18, 2005
Mister Max wrote:
Brian posted:

Mister Max wrote:

JD posted:

On 16-Apr-05 11:52, wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

Google is your friend:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/download/download_884 .html
http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo_specifications.htm

– Which will tell you what the OP posted.

Here’s what I did for my son earlier this week:
* Adjust the photo so it looks good – curves, sharpen, blur the background, etc
* Select the Crop tool (C). At the top of the screen specify 2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
* Crop so that the face height (not width) is a little more than half the total height, and the eyes are about 2/3 of the way up. * Save. You now have one passport photo, but you should have 4; 2 to get the passport and 2 to take with you in case you need a replacement, for visa, etc. The spares are free, so make them. * Enlarge the canvas to twice the height and twice the width so that you have room for 4 copies of the photo. Should be 4 inches square. Enlarge from one corner, not from the middle.
* Use Ctrl-J three times to make 3 more copies of the picture, each on its own layer.
* Drag the three new layers, one at a time, into position. * Ctrl-shift-E to flatten
* Print

– Max

Naturally, it goes without saying that you would have to resize/resample the image "before" you start following Max’s crop procedure. ie. Resize the images so that the face is the specified height at a decent resolution and then crop around it to meet the overall specs for a passport photo.

Brian.

Brian, you don’t have to (and shouldn’t) resize/resample "before." The crop tool will resize and resample automatically once you define the dimensions.
– Max
Really? I was not aware of that. So you can stipulate a resolution when you crop? Are you saying if I had a 6" x 4" photo (portrait) and I wanted a passport photo from it, I could draw the crop area where it needs to be (correct position/proportions) and then tell the crop tool to "reduce" that to 2" automatically?
Where I was coming from was this: Say the image is 6" x 4" at 300dpi. Then cropping the image to 2" would leave the face too big for the image. So I was saying – resample the image so that the face is at the specified size (1" – 1.375") and then crop the whole image to the specified size (2").
I am not a regular user of PS, so if that can be done with the crop tool (what I am interpreting from your response), then wow!

Brian.
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Brian
Apr 18, 2005
Brian wrote:
Mister Max wrote:

Brian posted:

Mister Max wrote:

JD posted:

On 16-Apr-05 11:52, wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

Google is your friend:

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/download/download_884 .html
http://www.onthegosoft.com/passport_photo_specifications.htm

– Which will tell you what the OP posted.

Here’s what I did for my son earlier this week: * Adjust the photo so it looks good – curves, sharpen, blur the background, etc * Select the Crop tool (C). At the top of the screen specify 2 inches wide and 2 inches high.
* Crop so that the face height (not width) is a little more than half the total height, and the eyes are about 2/3 of the way up. * Save. You now have one passport photo, but you should have 4; 2 to get the passport and 2 to take with you in case you need a replacement, for visa, etc. The spares are free, so make them. * Enlarge the canvas to twice the height and twice the width so that you have room for 4 copies of the photo. Should be 4 inches square. Enlarge from one corner, not from the middle.
* Use Ctrl-J three times to make 3 more copies of the picture, each on its own layer.
* Drag the three new layers, one at a time, into position. * Ctrl-shift-E to flatten
* Print

– Max

Naturally, it goes without saying that you would have to resize/resample the image "before" you start following Max’s crop procedure. ie. Resize the images so that the face is the specified height at a decent resolution and then crop around it to meet the overall specs for a passport photo.

Brian.

Brian, you don’t have to (and shouldn’t) resize/resample "before." The crop tool will resize and resample automatically once you define the dimensions. – Max
Really? I was not aware of that. So you can stipulate a resolution when you crop? Are you saying if I had a 6" x 4" photo (portrait) and I wanted a passport photo from it, I could draw the crop area where it needs to be (correct position/proportions) and then tell the crop tool to "reduce" that to 2" automatically?
Where I was coming from was this: Say the image is 6" x 4" at 300dpi. Then cropping the image to 2" would leave the face too big for the image. So I was saying – resample the image so that the face is at the specified size (1" – 1.375") and then crop the whole image to the specified size (2").
I am not a regular user of PS, so if that can be done with the crop tool (what I am interpreting from your response), then wow!

Brian.

Hey Mister Max,

that was useful information, thank you.

Regards,
Brian.
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Tom Nelson
Apr 18, 2005
I made a Photoshop template for this. A 2×2" transparent layer with a circle 1-1/8" in diameter and appropriate top height. Put your photo below that layer, free transform to fit. Hide the template, flatten, you’re there!
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

In article ,
wrote:

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks
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Craig Flory
Apr 18, 2005
What no one seems to have written about is the actual photo. It must be a white
background with 1:1 lighting. I assume you do have professional lights to do this?
This seems like a lot of effort, for just an identification photo, that your are going
through. I hope your snapshot fits the photo requirements before you work on getting the size correct.

Craig Flory
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Brian
Apr 18, 2005
Tom Nelson wrote:
I made a Photoshop template for this. A 2×2" transparent layer with a circle 1-1/8" in diameter and appropriate top height. Put your photo below that layer, free transform to fit. Hide the template, flatten, you’re there!
Tom Nelson
Tom Nelson Photography

In article ,
wrote:

Good thinking Tom. Interestingly, our passport photos in Australia are a different specification to yours, ours are rectangular, not square.

Brian.
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noone
Apr 19, 2005
In article , josh00
@comcast.net says…
I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

You have gotten a lot of good info on using PS. One question that I have is, can you now submit "digital" images for US Passports? Last time I got mine renewed, they would NOT allow digital images, only Polaroids, or other silver -photo images. The US Gov would NOT use the digital images that I had printed on Kodak paper, and even had the diagonal Kodak logo on the back. They wanted Polaroids specifically.

Now, that was ~ eight years ago, and I would like to know, as I need to renew, again, next year.

Hunt
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Brian
Apr 19, 2005
Hunt wrote:
In article , josh00
@comcast.net says…

I have photoshop 6 and I would like to make a standard photo for my passport. It has to be 2" border with face width / height between 1" and 1 3/8".

thanks

You have gotten a lot of good info on using PS. One question that I have is, can you now submit "digital" images for US Passports? Last time I got mine renewed, they would NOT allow digital images, only Polaroids, or other silver -photo images. The US Gov would NOT use the digital images that I had printed on Kodak paper, and even had the diagonal Kodak logo on the back. They wanted Polaroids specifically.

Now, that was ~ eight years ago, and I would like to know, as I need to renew, again, next year.

Hunt
Yes Hunt,

the current specification clearly ‘states’ that digital images are acceptable, however they are not meant to be digitally retouched or enhanced in any way.

Regards,
Brian.

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