Passport/Visa Pictures

[Married_my_love 0]

The specs are the same now.

When did the specs become the same? Dang, back in Jan when we filed, we went to a place in Ottawa and they goofed and shot hubby's pics as Canada size and not u.s. and we had to do a re-take. Is this recent news they are now all the same?

[bebop + rocksteady 0]

That's crazy? Because at the end of July, Craigory went to get his photos done for the G-325a as well as to get his passport, and Walmart did them two different ways?

Cass (bebop the great)

The specs are the same now.

[Married_my_love 0]

That's crazy? Because at the end of July, Craigory went to get his photos done for the G-325a as well as to get his passport, and Walmart did them two different ways?

Cass (bebop the great)

The specs are the same now.

Yah, that's what I'm saying..... Canada photos have a bigger head than the U.S.

[David and Karen 0]

Ok I called the one closest to me and they do passport pics! Cheap cheap cheap!! If you have a costco membership. The cost for two pics (one set) is $5.99!!! That is awesome! But in my case I don't have a costco membership so I would have to have that and it costs $55. LoL So in my case that puts me no further ahead. But I wanted to share that with those of you that may be looking for pics in the future and are members. Go to Costco!!

Can't you go to Costco as a guest with a friend and use their card?

Nope you have to be the member or live in the same household as the member and show ID that supports it. Grrr

Walmart passport horror story.

I went and got mine done there, get them home and measure them. They are 1 3/4 wide. Bad news bears. So I said screw it, and had my Dad take them with the digital camera against a white wall. They turned out clearer and with better lighting than the too small pics from Walmart. AND once I got the prints done, they cost me all of 4 cents a piece.

Cass (bebop the great)

P.S. I asked this question a few months ago, if you ignore the people who are jerks about it, you'll find some good recommendations.

http://www.visajourney.com/forums/index.ph...c=19604&hl=

Hey I appreciate the idea!! I wonder if that would work for me? So you shot them with a digital and then took them to be processed and they were able to give you the size you needed? Where'd you have them processed and printed?

Thanks!

The specs are the same now.

When did the specs become the same? Dang, back in Jan when we filed, we went to a place in Ottawa and they goofed and shot hubby's pics as Canada size and not u.s. and we had to do a re-take. Is this recent news they are now all the same?

Must have been changed. It says it in the packet 3. Actually says the same size as Canadian passport pics. Makin it a lil easier for us! It does note the empty space at the top of the pic etc...specs.

[YuAndDan 153]

I wouldn't recommend this but I did my own. I took my picture using a digital camera eye-level in front of white wall. Took resulting image uploaded to my PC and did a square crop using Photoshop elements and resized to 2"x2" size. placed 4 of the cropped and resized images neatly on a new photo. Then printed on thermal photo paper using a Kodak EZ-share photo printer, and presto 4 photographic images ready to cut out, acceptable by the USCIS. Cost about 15cents per photo.

Then again I am a photo buff and have the equipment to do it, and just cannot justify the cost of Kinkos or Walmart.

I have used them for applying for chinese visas, I-129F and so on.

[David and Karen 0]

I wouldn't recommend this but I did my own. I took my picture using a digital camera eye-level in front of white wall. Took resulting image uploaded to my PC and did a square crop using Photoshop elements and resized to 2"x2" size. placed 4 of the cropped and resized images neatly on a new photo. Then printed on thermal photo paper using a Kodak EZ-share photo printer, and presto 4 photographic images ready to cut out, acceptable by the USCIS. Cost about 15cents per photo.

Then again I am a photo buff and have the equipment to do it, and just cannot justify the cost of Kinkos or Walmart.

I have used them for applying for chinese visas, I-129F and so on.

I have read a few other posts on this site where VJ'ers took and printed their own pictures. I am curious what the Consulate thinks of these pics? I don't think I have a printer worthy of printing clear pictures.

You have me interested though. I need them for myself and my two daughters. Cents vs hundreds is tempting!

Although, I know the cost is all part of it and we are fully prepared to pay whatever.

Hmmm....

[YuAndDan 153]

The printer is a photo printer, and the paper is Kodak photo paper the same grade that is used by photo stores, it even says Kodak Photo Paper on the back like, well, photo paper. The photo quality is virtually indistinguishable from ones produced in a lab, and are better than a Polaroid picture.

[David and Karen 0]

The printer is a photo printer, and the paper is Kodak photo paper the same grade that is used by photo stores, it even says Kodak Photo Paper on the back like, well, photo paper. The photo quality is virtually indistinguishable from ones produced in a lab, and are better than a Polaroid picture.

Well I am envious of your ability to do this. Sounds like you were able to knock it out quite easily. Now I wonder if I could just take the pictures and have them printed somewhere?

Ack I will just end up going and paying for the darn things I know it. LoL

Edited September 7, 2006 by David and Karen

[CutienPurg 0]

The printer is a photo printer, and the paper is Kodak photo paper the same grade that is used by photo stores, it even says Kodak Photo Paper on the back like, well, photo paper. The photo quality is virtually indistinguishable from ones produced in a lab, and are better than a Polaroid picture.

Well I am envious of your ability to do this. Sounds like you were able to knock it out quite easily. Now I wonder if I could just take the pictures and have them printed somewhere?

Ack I will just end up going and paying for the darn things I know it. LoL

I found this site ......I hope the link works.

Making your own passport photo

[CutienPurg 0]

The printer is a photo printer, and the paper is Kodak photo paper the same grade that is used by photo stores, it even says Kodak Photo Paper on the back like, well, photo paper. The photo quality is virtually indistinguishable from ones produced in a lab, and are better than a Polaroid picture.

Well I am envious of your ability to do this. Sounds like you were able to knock it out quite easily. Now I wonder if I could just take the pictures and have them printed somewhere?

Ack I will just end up going and paying for the darn things I know it. LoL

I found this site ......I hope the link works.

Making your own passport photo

Oh and this one

software

[YuAndDan 153]

Looks like I started something! Not to hard.

Here are suggestions and standards for the quality of the photo.

http://travel.state.gov/passport/guide/qua...uality_879.html

[mozplay 29]

Have you tried Costco or any of the Loblaws Superstores for getting cheap pix taken? I know they develop cheaply and may take passport pix as well.

Mo

[Cristy 4]

I had me and 3 kids and was freaking at how much it would cost. So here is what I did. I submitted the originals with our passports. I made copies of them at staples on photo paper, cost like $1.20 for a page of 8 photos. Cut them to 2x2 and that was it. Worked like a charm

[Reba 2]

I had mine done at Japan Camera I think it was. No idea how much it cost me tho. I've slept since then.

[David and Karen 0]

I had me and 3 kids and was freaking at how much it would cost. So here is what I did. I submitted the originals with our passports. I made copies of them at staples on photo paper, cost like $1.20 for a page of 8 photos. Cut them to 2x2 and that was it. Worked like a charm

So you used the copies to submit for your medicals and visas for yourself and your children?

I am soooo tempted to do this! I have to at least go and get something taken for the three of us before Monday. We go on Monday for the medical.

Hmmm, I am thinking now.