So you have got a good Color inkjet/Laser printer and want to print your passport size photos at home. This is very easy and all you need to have is glossy or matte Photo Paper (which you can buy for very cheap). You can quickly find some good quality Photo Papers here on Amazon.
There are two methods to print photos on Photo sheet.
Method 1:
If you have got Photoshop installed, you can use Photoshop to create sheet of photos. Following are the steps –
1) Open Photoshop and go to File Menu > Automate> Picture Package.
2) This will open Picture Package dialog box.
3) In ‘Source Image’ select your photo using the Browse button.
4) Select the page size here and choose what size of Photo you want to print on the sheet. I have selected here 2×2 size which will give 20 photos on one page. (Note : In India photos of size 3.5×4.5cm are usually called Passport Size photo.)
5) Now click on ‘OK’ and you will have your grid of photos ready in Photoshop. Go ahead and save this image.
6) Now print this photo using photo print software which comes with Printer, do not use Windows photo printer as it will not consider the page size. While printing the photo, choose the page size which was selected at the time of photo creation.
Method 2:
There are online tools available which can help you in printing passport photo at home. One such website is – idphoto4you.
This website allows you to create photo sheet without any login or account. Just follow these simple steps –
1) Open www.idphoto4you.com and select the size of image which you need.
2) Remember for USA you have to select Photo Size of 2x2cm and for India it is 3.5×4.5cm which is considered as Passport size pic. For Print/Page size there is no option to choose A4 size paper (or anything around 8×11 inch of page size), so the best option would be to select 4x6inch paper size and print the image twice on one A4 Photo Sheet.
3) Click on Choose Size button and after selecting the photo, click on the Upload button.
4) Now you can crop and adjust your photo before printing. You can also adjust Brightness and Contrast of photo.
5) Click on Make Photo button and you will have your photo sheet ready. It will ask you to wait for 1 minute before you can download the photo (you can remove this time by linking your Google plus account). After 1 minute you will have a download link available, click on it and download your photo sheet.
6) Now print this photo using photo print software which comes with Printer, do not use Windows photo printer as it will not consider the page size. While printing the photo, choose the page size which was selected at the time of photo creation.
July 23, 2014 at 9:22 am
Hi, Very useful . I was searching for this in google and found. But how to choose 3.5cmX4.5cm using photo shop. I could not edit there. Will you please tell me. The article is wonderful. 300 dpi enough for the passport photo.
What do you mean by photo printer, Could not HP ink jet print, print the photo at this resolution. When i use some other program, the photo gets printed but with unnecessary colur change and grid like things. Would i expect a word of reply from you.
The sofrware help may contain but this kind of helping article makes the task easier for everyone
July 23, 2014 at 11:19 pm
Hi,
Photoshop does not give you 3.5×4.5 cm option. But in that case you may try using 2.5×3.5cm pics as they will be usable for your purpose. By photo printer I have mentioned about Photo Printing Software which comes with your printer. Any inkjet printer (such as your HP InkJet Printer) can be used for this printing.
If you are still not clear about the Photo Printing Software which has come with your printer, check the CD which you have received with your printer, usually you can find it there.
Such as with my Canon Inkjet printer I have got software called ‘Canon Easy-PhotoPrint EX’. These printing software will maintain the size of your image.
July 24, 2014 at 11:20 am
Hi, I went deep in to the help file and come across the layout edit option in the adobe photoshop. Only thing is that i could not type a text in layout folder changing to 3.5 and 4.5. If that could be accomplished, this is a easy task. The tutorial is very good in the sense, that one who has just downloaded and seeing the ad ph shop would find it very useful, instead of cumbersome menu interface there. Thank you.
There is a folder in this program called layout and you have to enter one text file to activate custom settings. The narration given in the help file is not good.Even experience person would find it difficult to understand the terminology like place holders etc. In about.com also there is an article, but not clear and simple. If you would do and add this article would be much more helpful to users. Thanks
July 23, 2014 at 9:47 am
hI, oNE MORE I TRIED and if i select the page size as you choose, i get only 4 photos of big size. All i want is , to copy the passport size of 3.5 and 4.5 in a4 size paper. How much copy i could choose. There is no editing in this regard. Pl
July 23, 2014 at 11:24 pm
Please do not Print your photos using Photoshop. Use Photoshop to only create grid of photos and save that image file. Open this grid of images in photo printing software which has come with your printer and print using only that Software. That will retain the size and color of your image.