Photo for Any ID around The World

LScoMosas on 21/05/2014 - 01:19

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I do not know whether it is bargain or not but thought to share with all ozbargainers. I wanted to get photo for passport. Cheapest I found was 4 photos for 12 $.

While searching online I came across the above website. You have to take photo your self using mobile camera or any digital camera. Choose country, ID you want and upload your photo on website. It will guide you through the process. At the end you can download digital copy of photo. Load it on your USB and get the print out at nearest kmart, bigw, officeworks or any store.

I ended up paying 15 cents for 8 Australian passport size photo.

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Comments

  • jdr on 21/05/2014 - 01:26
    +2

    Probably run by the CIA. Would be a great way to build up their database.

  • [Deactivated] on 21/05/2014 - 01:27
    +1

    How is this any different to reading the relevant passport guide and just making them the right size?

    • oz-dave on 21/05/2014 - 01:30
      +1

      For a lot of people it's easier and quicker ;-)

  • bbyboy on 21/05/2014 - 01:51
    +1

    here are the guidelines and from experience, its not that easy doing it yourself
    https://www.passports.gov.au/web/requirements/photos.aspx

  • cpho on 21/05/2014 - 09:07

    Yes and no. Camera phones usually dont take good enough quality pictures and some cameras have terrible white balance. Except S5. Played with that yesterday and that camera is pretty amazing.
    Second, it may give you the right size of the image but does it give head measurements and distance from frame measurements? Different countries have different metaphorical hairs to split.
    Finally, the scaling of the printers you use will be different. You might have your 35x45 all perfectly setup, but when it comes to print, the photo mightve been scaled down to 33x42, making your head now too small for an australian passport.
    If youre careful, and a bit lucky, this would work out for you, but the rejection process might not be worth saving $15 over.

    Source: Parents have been taking passports photos for the past 20 years, never rejected, and recommended by the immigration department.

    • ScoMosas on 21/05/2014 - 12:02

      yes. it provides all help for perfect photo size. I took photo using Nikon D3200. Printed out at bigw and submitted it to Auspost. just 15 cent and 8 passport size photos. Worked for me.

  • peterpeterpumpkin on 21/05/2014 - 11:40

    I tried to save money using the website epassportphoto to fit the photo within the right dimensions but I kept failing (the brightness and focus just didn't turn out right with an ordinary camera used by an amateur - and epassportphoto compressed the image even more). The post office has a program that simply checks the photos they take to see if it passes - which should be provided free for home use.

    What I can tell you is that the requirements (https://www.passports.gov.au/Web/Requirements/PhotographGuid…) are hard to match but have never been achieved by the post office for me even for their hefty fee. They have never been able to capture my creases, eye bags and acne - which may be unintentional - but unintentionally may contravene the "must not remove facial moles, freckles or other blemishes from the image" statement.

    I never bothered asking K-mart if they used one of:
    instant photographic standard gloss
    dye sublimation photographic semi gloss
    silver halide photographic semi gloss
    Drylab photographic inkjet bases standard gloss

    but it's definitely shinier than the post-office 9and matte is not allowed). But people have definitely got away with it.

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