Resize photo for Canada PR & IRCC portal
Format portrait photos to official Immigration, Refugees and Citizenship Canada standards. Produces 50×70 mm (590×826 px at 300 DPI) photos under 4 MB.
How it works
Choose your portrait
Select a high-resolution front-facing portrait photo.
Format to 50×70 mm
The tool crops to exact IRCC millimeter and pixel dimensions.
Check file size
Ensures the final image is sharp and well within the 4 MB portal limit.
The picture never leaves your device
Compressing or converting a photo usually means sending it to somebody else's computer and getting a new one back. Here the work happens in the page you are already looking at: your browser opens the file, the tool rewrites it, and the browser hands you the result.
- Opened from your disk by your browser — not sent anywhere first.
- Held in the tab while the tool works, then dropped.
- Saved to your device by your browser, not by a link to a server.
- Closing the tab clears the working copy completely.
- No account, so nothing is ever attached to an identity.
- No tracking of what you worked on or what was inside the file.
There is no queue and no waiting room. The picture is worked on in front of you and released the moment the tab closes. You can read more about how the conversion runs on your own device, or check our guide to verifying it in DevTools.
What people use it for
Shipping a lighter page
Hero images are usually the heaviest thing on a site. Getting them smaller before they reach your CMS is the fastest performance win available.
Sending photos on a weak signal
On hotel Wi-Fi or a poor mobile connection a full-resolution photo can sit at sending for minutes. A smaller copy goes through in seconds.
Preparing marketplace listings
Selling platforms set their own caps on size and dimensions. Get inside them before you start filling in the form.
Formats & limits
What this tool accepts, what it produces, and what it will never ask you for.
- Input
- JPG, PNG or WebP portrait with neutral expression
- Output
- Set in the controls above
- Maximum file size
- Set by your device, not by a plan
- Files per run
- One at a time
- Sign-up required
- None
- Watermark
- Never added
- Works offline
- Yes, once the page has loaded
- Supported browsers
- Any current Chrome, Edge, Firefox or Safari
When something goes wrong
Damaged files, and formats outside the list above, stop with a plain message rather than a spinner that never finishes. If a picture opens in your gallery it will normally open here.
The format is not supported. Convert it to PNG or JPG first, or try one of the other image tools.
Why not an upload site
An upload-based tool is a form that posts your picture to someone else's machine. Take that step out and a lot of small annoyances disappear with it.
A typical upload site
This tool
Questions
What are the official Canada PR photo dimensions?
IRCC requires photos to measure 50 mm wide by 70 mm high (minimum 420×540 pixels, ideally 590×826 pixels at 300 DPI) under 4 MB in size.
What background color is required by IRCC?
The background must be plain white or light-coloured with no shadows on the face or background.
Are my portrait images private?
Yes. Processing runs 100% on your device in your web browser. No files are uploaded to any server.
Is there a file size limit?
No fixed limit is imposed by the tool. The practical ceiling is how much memory your device has free, because the whole job runs inside this browser tab.
Does it work without an internet connection?
Yes, once the page has loaded. Nothing is fetched while you work, so a dropped connection does not interrupt a run.
Do I need an account or an email address?
No. There is nothing to sign up for, and nothing is ever attached to an identity because no file leaves your device.