passport photos

[hannah333]

Going to get mine done later having annoyingly lost my old passport. It isnt the end of the world however, as at least I'll be able to replace the dreadful photo! Any tips for not looking like either a serial killer or a corpse???

[ummmm1]

Yea...use loads of ultra glow. If you put the normal amount on you still look deathly pale!

[Pippa68]

I have no idea. I was pleased to change mine after it ran out as I looked like Myra Hindley...in the new one I look like a fat woman who has just been given an ASBO.

Mr P looks like an unshaven terrorist in his...

[hannah333]

Glad its not just me then!

[B00]

Don't smile!!!

Read somewhere that soon (or possibly in effect now?) passports wil lbe treated with suspicion if you grin like the village idiot on em!

[B00]

There ya go- knew I wasn't imagining it.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk_politics/3541444 .stm

[Pippa68]

I got my first passport in 1980 and I am sure you weren't allowed to smile in them then..in fact I am positive I got my photo returned!

Therefore it is pretty obvious that any passport photo will make you look as if the police department forgot to give the board with numbers stamped on it...;o)

[Llamatron]

I flew to Paris a couple of years back and the ******* that checked my passport on landing actually laughed at my photo.

[jump79]

Ask for a nice background color, even white is ok, no brown...!

[Hellion]

Take your own photo with a digital camera (following the guidelines of course)and take it to a photprint shop and ask them to print it as a passport size. I've done all my friends and family and they've all got fab photo's. Unfortunately mine was done before I had the camera so I don't look qiote so good!

[RATTER15]

I always print mine myself on photo paper, you can improve the print in adobe then.

[Nickynoodles]

Just be very dull!!! - we have seven in our family and they rejected 3 of the kids photos - 1) because 2 were smiling and one had a visible missing tooth.

Re-did them and they rejected 2 again - this time for no apparent reason!!! - I sent the same photo's again and they passed