We live in an era in which the selfies are already fully accepted and integrated into our day-to-day. Interestingly, it is still quite usual that we keep turning to photo shops (or even fotomatones) when we need to make the so-called “photo id”.
And is that it is increasingly easy and cheap print in a professional manner in our homesand cameras which already include our mobile devices have sufficient quality to make these pictures.
Saves time and money
The problem is that each country and each type of document have specific measuresso if we decided to do it on our own we will have to do it correctly if we want to accept.
Here is where comes ‘Make Passport Photo‘, a web page that it will help us to create a print template for official documents (passport, identity card or VISA) of one hundred and fifty different countries.
There are two modes: one paid and one free. In the first (after paying four dollars) an artificial intelligence will help us to tweak all aspects of our photo (remove the background, adjust the contrast, or placing them perfectly in the space).
If you prefer, we can do it free and manually. We’ll just have to choose the country and type of document for which we are going to use the photo. We ask that arrastremos the image and choose the type of paper that we are going to print.
In the next step it will be necessary to crop and adjust the photo so that our face appears centered. It is very simple, as guides to appear, superimposed over the head:
Thanks for this web site incorporates an edit modeand in the next step it is possible to adjust the brightness, contrast, exposure and saturation of the photograph. In case outside little, includes the option of pairing outfits in a very simple way:
If everything is correct, we will just have to press the button “finish” and download the mosaic to your computer to be able to print it. Below you can see an example I created in less than a minute (using Bill Gates as a model):
It is the typical website that we can get out of a pinch on more than one occasionin addition to allowing us to save money every time you have to take pictures to renew official documents.
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This website helps you to make a “photo card” at home valid in 150 countries
it was originally published in
Engadget
by
Santi Araujo
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