About White ID Photo

White ID Photo is a free tool that replaces the background of an ID picture with plain white. It's made byGreyvetro, a small software studio, and it's funded by a few clearly labeled ads instead of sign-ups, watermarks or paid downloads.

Why we built it

Passport offices, visa portals, exam applications and employers keep asking for "a recent ID picture with a white background". Most people already have a good photo of themselves on their phone; the background is the only problem. The usual fixes are a trip to a photo studio, a photo editor you have to learn, or a website that uploads your face to its servers. We wanted something that takes a few seconds and never sends your photo anywhere.

How it works

1. Your browser does all the work. When you choose a photo, it stays on your device. The page loads an open-source AI model, MODNet, and runs it with Transformers.js and WebAssembly, right inside the browser tab.
2. The model finds you. MODNet is a portrait-matting model: for every pixel it estimates how much belongs to the person and how much to the background, which keeps fine details like hair.
3. The background becomes white. The page places you on pure white (#FFFFFF) at the full resolution of your original photo.
4. You choose the size. Keep the original framing, or pick 1×1, 2×2 or passport size (35×45 mm). Presets are cropped around your head and saved at 300 DPI so they print at the right size.

The first photo takes longer because your browser downloads the model (about 26 MB). It's then cached, so later photos take a few seconds. Because nothing is uploaded, we never see, store or share your photos. Theprivacy policy has the details.

What it can't do

A white background is only one of the rules for an ID photo. The tool doesn't check head size, pose, expression, lighting or glasses, and it can't make a blurry photo sharp. Some documents don't accept edited photos at all: US, UK and Canadian passports and US visas need an original, unaltered photo, so the background has to be right when the picture is taken (seecan you edit the background of a passport or visa photo?). Always check the rules of the office you're applying to. Our guides collect them for common documents.

How we write the guides

Every requirement in our guides comes from an official source, such as a government agency, an embassy or the office that issues the document, and those sources are linked at the end of each guide. Where there's no official rule, we say so instead of guessing. Rules change, so each guide shows the date it was last checked, and we update guides when the official pages change.

Spotted something out of date, or want a guide for a document we haven't covered?Let us know.