How to make a photo’s background white for an ID or exam form

Forms often reject photos taken against a wall, a curtain or a busy room. You can replace the background with plain white, or light blue where a form asks for it, without a studio.

Steps

1. Take the photo facing a window or other soft light, with your face and shoulders in frame.
2. Open Make background white and choose the photo. The background is removed on your device, and nothing is uploaded.
3. Check the edges around your hair and shoulders, then download.
4. Resize the result to your form’s limits with the exact-KB resizer or your form’s page under Forms.

Before you submit

• Some forms, such as passport and visa photos, have strict rules on lighting, expression and head size. A changed background doesn’t fix those.
• Need a full passport or visa photo checked against the official rules? visaphotos.app makes those.