Spain Passport Photo — Make a 26×32 mm Print-Ready Photo

Need a Spain passport photo — sometimes searched as Spanish passport photo requirements — for your pasaporte ordinario application? Upload a photo you already have and IDPhotoBy sizes and crops it to 26×32 mm (2.6×3.2 cm, about 1.02×1.26 in) on a plain white background, with the Spain Passport document already selected. This photo is print-only, not an online upload — Spain doesn't accept passport applications online — so you get a digital file and a print-ready photo (plus a printable sheet) to bring to your in-person appointment.

IDPhotoBy does not retouch, beautify, or AI-edit your face — only the framing, size and background are prepared.

This page covers Spain passport photo size and requirements in one place. Spain's ordinary passport photo requirement comes directly from Real Decreto 896/2003, Article 4.1.c, corroborated word-for-word by the Ministerio del Interior's own citizen-facing procedure page. Your Spain passport photo requirements:

• 26 mm wide by 32 mm tall (2.6×3.2 cm, about 1.02×1.26 inches) — a recent, colour photo, portrait orientation.
• Plain white background ("fondo uniforme blanco y liso"), evenly lit.
• Face forward, no dark-tinted glasses or any garment that could hinder identifying you.
• Must clearly show the oval of your face — eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth, chin.
• High resolution, printed on good-quality photographic paper.

Spain's own regulation doesn't separately publish a facial-expression rule for this photo — IDPhotoBy still defaults to a neutral expression, the standard convention for ID photos generally. IDPhotoBy checks your uploaded photo against this specification and outputs a print-ready photo at the correct size and background.

You can prepare your Spain passport photo online — using IDPhotoBy's upload tool — but the passport application itself is not submitted online. Real Decreto 896/2003 requires "la presencia física de la persona" (the physical presence of the applicant); you apply in person, by appointment, bringing the printed photo among your required documents.

Domestically, passport applications are handled by the Dirección General de la Policía's Unidad de Documentación (Cuerpo Nacional de Policía, Ministerio del Interior). Abroad, they're handled by Spain's diplomatic and consular missions — your local Spanish embassy or consulate. Either way, the photo is something you bring — it isn't captured on site.

Upload a photo you already have — a recent selfie or a photo someone else took works, as long as your face is clearly visible. IDPhotoBy checks the framing against the Spain passport specification, crops and resizes it to 26×32 mm, and sets a plain white background. You get:

• A digital photo file at the correct size.
• A print-ready photo sized for standard photo printing.
• A printable sheet you can take to any print shop or print at home.

IDPhotoBy does not retouch, beautify, or apply AI edits to your face — only the size, crop and background are prepared, so what you print is still genuinely your photo.

Spain's official texts don't publish a numeric head-size ratio for this photo — only the outer 26×32 mm frame plus the qualitative pose and background rules above. IDPhotoBy still frames your head consistently within that 26×32 mm print, aiming for a natural, centred head size similar to what most biometric-style ID photos worldwide use, so the photo reads correctly at a glance even though Spain's regulation doesn't spell out a separate head-height percentage.

Spain's regulation doesn't ban glasses outright — it specifically forbids dark-tinted glasses, along with "any other garment that could hinder identification" of your face. In practice: skip sunglasses and anything covering part of your face, and make sure your eyebrows, eyes, nose, mouth and chin are all clearly visible, per the same clause.

IDPhotoBy gives you a print-ready photo file and a printable sheet sized for standard photo paper, so you (or any print shop) can produce a physical print at the correct 26×32 mm size. Bring the printed photo — not a digital file on your phone — to your Unidad de Documentación appointment or consular visit; Spain's regulation calls for a photo on "good-quality photographic paper", not a screen.

Several online passport-photo tools advertise a "guaranteed acceptance" or "100% compliance" promise, or lean on AI to "fine-tune" or generate your photo. IDPhotoBy takes a plainer approach: no service — including ours — can guarantee how a government office will decide your application, and Spain's own regulation doesn't ask for an AI-generated photo, it asks for a genuine, recent photograph of your face. IDPhotoBy resizes and crops the photo you upload to the official 26×32 mm specification; it does not retouch, beautify or AI-edit your face, and it does not promise an acceptance outcome. Check the official application portal before submitting.