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With the large number of passport type photos you have send in with immigration documents, it can become very expensive to pay a drug store (i.e. Walgreens or CVS) 10.00 per picture.  Here is a way I found to print 5 passport type photos for under 20 cents using the State Department’s own tools.

• Have someone with a digital camera stand about 4 feet from you and take your picture against a white background.  Make sure the person taking the photo takes the picture like one of these pictures.
• Upload  the picture to your computer.
• Use the Department of State’s free photo tool found on their web site to size the picture perfectly.
• Next, go to ePassportPhoto.com and follow the steps to create the perfectly sized 4×6 photo.  After you upload your photo just select the entire photo since it was already sized at the Department of State’s web site.  It will appear on step 3 that you have to pay, but you do not.  There will be a link (a small one) that says “No thanks”.  Click that link and then on the next page you can download the new image.
• This new image will have 5 photos on it (the spot for the 6th photo has the web site’s name on it).  This is a perfectly sized 4×6 image that you can upload to Walmart or Target (not Walgreens or CVS) and print as a 4×6 image and then pick it up in one hour.
• You will have 5 perfectly sized passport type photos for under 20 cents.

• Have someone with a digital camera stand about 4 feet from you and take your picture against a white background.  Make sure the person taking the photo takes the picture like one of these pictures.
• Upload  the picture to your computer.
• Go to Portraitbooth.com, upload your photo, crop it to the 1:1 US Passport Standard, then download the 4×6 print image.
• This new image will have 6 photos on it.  This is a perfectly sized 4×6 image that you can upload to Walmart or Target (not Walgreens or CVS) and print as a 4×6 image and then pick it up in one hour.