If one of your resolutions for 2007 is to be a jetsetter, you’d better be ready with a Passport in hand.  Instead of heading over to CVS and paying them a whopping $7.99 for passport photos, do it yourself for 50 cents!

You can easily take a photo yourself with your digital camera at home.  The US Department of State website gives 7 clear rules for the perfect passport photo.  Basically, you just have to take it on a clean, white or off-white background and make sure it’s a nice clear headshot. passport photo rules

You can also download all the Passport Application forms and avoid the long lines at the post office as well!

Now all you need is the print out the photos to the correct size.  Forget about re-sizing, editing, cropping, etc.  Just hop over to ePassportPhoto.com to auto-generate perfect photos to print out!

You can upload any photo from your own computer, rotate, crop, etc and then it will auto size it and layout the photos so that you can easily print out a 4×6 photo at home or at the store.

I printed mine out at CVS for $0.25/print (you need 2!), so it was a total of 50 cents!

sample passport photo generated

They looked so good that they initially tried to charge me $7.99 (cost of THEIR regular passport photos) x 2!  My clerk was so confused how I could walk-out with passport photos for only 50 cents…and don’t forget that you can upload the final photo to Shutterfly or Kodak EasyShare Gallery – they both offer free prints, so it could be free!

Hey, once you submit your passport application, you’ll probably want to know when you’ll actually get it back, right?  Usually you’ll receive it within 6 weeks, but just to be sure, the US Department of State has set-up an on-line passport application status check.



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