Where to take photo for Schengen Visa?

You can take your own photo at home using the general passport photo guidelines here. There are tips on how to prevent shadows at the background.

The following are the checklist for generating acceptable passport photos:

1. Frame subject with full face, front view, eyes open, mouth closed

2. Center head within frame

3. Photograph subject against a plain white or off-white background; Usually using smooth white cloth as background should be OK.

4. Position subject and lighting so that there are no distracting shadows on the face or background

5. Encourage subject to have a natural expression. No smiling. As reported by timesonline, smiling babies contributed to 400,000 passport applications being rejected by The UK Passport Service (UKPS) towards the end of 2005. So no smiling, just natural expression.

6. Ensure light on the face is even.

After you take the photo, upload it to 123passportphoto and select Switzerland (Schweiz) in the country list. According the information at Yahoo answers, Schengen visa photo is 45mm high x 35mm wide, which is the same as Switzerland passport photo size.

Next, crop your photo using the online crop tool. You will get multiple passport photos on a 4R sheet. Download the 4R sheet. Print it at home or any drugstore such as Walgreen.

After spending hours running all over town, we found a rep at CVS that could do it. He said most reps do not even know it is available to them. They must use the Apex machine, NOT the machine that does US passports. Give them the country you need or the dimensions. 35mm by 45 mm, not a problem. They printed out a sheet of 8 for 13.99!!

It is always advisable to use 35×45mm sized photos for Schengen. I know a friend who sent 2×2 inch photos, and they were rejected. See the link here. Some consulates accept 45×45mm, 50×50mm (which is like 2×2 inch). The best source is the instructions you get with your visa application. Regarding getting photos in, say, 35×45mm size, I would advise against sites like epassportphot.com etc. who offer free online cropping. Most of our photos are not that well taken, so you need a full service passport photo website like Online Passport Photo who will enhance exposure, remove shadows and fix your photos to make them look like professionally taken photos.

Log on to iPassportPhotos.com and follow the instructions for getting your passport or visa photos. All instructions for "how to take photos for passport at home" and how to order, is given there. We just have to follow the steps. There are three simple steps to get passport or visa photos in any size, for any country.

You can use either a digi cam or a mobile app to shoot a good high res photo.

I used https://www.idphoto4you.com to generate a Schengen visa photo. (35mm by 45 mm) and then used https://makepassportphoto.com to create a grid of photos. Later you can print it like a normal photo at your nearest photo service station and request them to use the photo cutter.

I agree with http://epassportphoto.com And there are other ones like http://persofoto.com, http://tomamor.com, http://idphoto4you.com. I have some french friends and they used the services like the above.