Free PAN Card Photo Online — Make a 35×45 mm Photo

Need a PAN card photo? Upload a recent photo and IDPhotoBy sizes and crops it to the standard set for the PAN application — a 35×45 mm (3.5×4.5 cm) colour photo on a white background — with the India PAN Card document already selected. You get a file ready to print and affix to your paper application form. Make your free PAN card photo online: it is free — no payment required.

Note on size: the PAN application asks for a 4.5 cm × 3.5 cm (35×45 mm) photo — the standard passport-size photo. If you have seen "25×35 mm" elsewhere, that figure is not the size stated on the official PAN application form.

The PAN (Permanent Account Number) card is issued by the Income Tax Department of India, and applications are handled by its authorised PAN service providers Protean eGov Technologies (formerly NSDL) and UTIITSL. IDPhotoBy prepares your photo to match the requirements stated on the statutory PAN application form. According to those requirements:

• Size 4.5 cm × 3.5 cm (35×45 mm) — a recent colour photograph.
• White background — the form asks for photographs with white backgrounds.
• Colour photograph — recent and clear; the clarity of the image printed on your PAN card depends on the quality of the photograph you affix.
• Recent — use a current photograph that still looks like you.
• Two photographs — you affix two copies in the space provided on the form.

The form does not publish a fixed head-height percentage, eye-line position, glasses or expression rule for this printed-photo channel, so IDPhotoBy centres your head and frames a standard passport-style crop to the 35×45 mm size.

The PAN card photo size is 35×45 mm — that is 3.5 cm wide × 4.5 cm high, the standard passport-size photo. The PAN application form states the size as 4.5 cm × 3.5 cm. IDPhotoBy crops your uploaded photo to exactly this size with your head centred, so it prints correctly at 35×45 mm.

You may have seen "25×35 mm" on other photo sites — that is not the size printed on the official PAN application form, which asks for 4.5 cm × 3.5 cm. IDPhotoBy uses the 35×45 mm size stated on the form.

• Upload a recent, well-lit photo with the tool on this page — the India PAN Card document is already selected.
• IDPhotoBy resizes and crops your photo to 35×45 mm (3.5×4.5 cm) with your head centred, and places it on a white background.
• Preview the result — check the white background, that your face is clear and centred, and that the crop is the standard passport-style framing.
• Download the finished photo free, then print two copies at 35×45 mm to affix to your PAN application form.

This free PAN card photo maker also works as a size checker and resizer for a photo you already have — there is no app to download, it runs online in your browser.

A resident individual applies for PAN on the statutory form — historically Form 49A, now Form No. 93 (the current form for a citizen of India, prescribed under the Income-tax Rules). You affix two recent colour photographs in the space provided on the form, and a few affixing rules apply:

• Your signature or left-hand thumb impression must be given across the photograph on the LEFT side, so that part of it falls on the photo and part on the form.
• The photograph on the RIGHT side must be clear and without any mark — no signature or impression on it — or the application may not be processed.
• The photographs must not be stapled or clipped to the form.

IDPhotoBy gives you a clean, correctly sized 35×45 mm photo to print — the affixing and signing you do on the paper form yourself, following these rules.

IDPhotoBy sizes and crops the photo you upload to the 35×45 mm PAN standard and places it on a white background. It does not retouch, beautify or otherwise edit your face — only the framing, size and background placement are prepared, and your face is left exactly as it is.

We do not promise that a photo will be accepted — no online tool can. Your file is prepared to the size and background stated on the PAN application form, and the Income Tax Department and its PAN service providers make the final decision. And it stays free: no paid plan, no per-photo charge.

You do not need a studio. You can take a PAN card photo at home with a phone and still get a compliant result:

• Stand about 1.5 m in front of a plain white wall, in soft, even daylight so there are no shadows behind you or on your face.
• Face the camera straight on, look at the camera, and keep a natural, relaxed expression. Have someone take the photo, or use a timer, at eye level.
• Fill the frame with your head and the top of your shoulders, then upload it here and let IDPhotoBy crop it to the exact 35×45 mm size on a white background.

The same steps work for a child's PAN photo. Take the photo recently so it still looks like the applicant.

This page prepares the printed 35×45 mm photograph you affix to a paper PAN application form. There is also a separate online / e-KYC PAN application channel, which uses a small digital photograph with its own pixel size — that is a different format handled on a separate page, not this one. If you are filling in and printing the paper form, the 35×45 mm photo from this page is what you affix.

Requirements can change — check the official PAN application portal (Protean/NSDL or UTIITSL) before you apply; they are the final authority on whether a photo is accepted.