China Online Visa Photo Editor

How Many Types of Chinese Visas Are There?

There are mainly 5 type of Chinese visa, including Chinese group visa, tourist visa, work visa, business visa, and transit visa for China. You can apply for one according to your purpose to visit China.

What Documents Should I Prepare if I Want to Apply for A China Visa?

In order to get a China visa, you need to prepare your passport, fill the Chinese Visa Application Form, submit a colored passport-sized photograph, other supporting documents like your travel documents or invitation letter, proof of residency and a copy of the Vaccination card.

Basic Photo Requirements for China Online Visa

Since your photo is used for the online China visa application, a digital version is enough. Your China online visa photo should comply with all the following regulations.

• Dimensions: the dimensions of a digital photo should be 345 pixels (width) x 472 pixels (length).
• Color space: RGB 24-bit true color.
• Image compression: JPEG.
• Image file size: 40 KB - 120 KB.
• Photo quality: photos that are damaged, overexposed, underexposed, or blurred will not be acceptable.
• Background: the photo should have a plain white background without borders around the edge of the image.
• Age of the photo: no more than 6 months.

Dimensions Requirements for a China Online Visa Photo

The China online visa photo has strict rules concerning its dimensions. The size of the picture should be between 345 pixels (width) x 472 pixels (length) and 420 pixels (width) x 560 pixels (height). As for the applicant's head size, the width of the face should be 205 pixels ± 14 pixels. Besides, there should be some space between the top of the picture to the top of the applicant's head, which needs to take up about 10-70 pixels. The distance from the bottom edge of the image to the horizontal line of the applicant's eyes should be over 256 pixels.

Please make sure that your picture fulfills all the dimension requirements mentioned above. If you know little about these photo regulations, you can use an online photo cropper to help you adjust your picture.

How to Pose in My China Online Visa Photo?

You are not supposed to strike whatever pose you want in your China online visa photo as you do in your selfies. Instead, you need to sit or stand with your back straight and look at the camera lens directly. Try not to tilt your head. Besides, you need to open your eyes and close your mouth when taking a picture. More importantly, there is no need to smile or make other facial expressions. Keeping a neutral expression is the best.

Why Does My China Online Visa Fail to Be A Standard One?

Feel upset when getting an unqualified visa photo? Check whether you have made the following mistakes, and try to avoid them next time.

Photo quality:

• Your photo is in low contrast, distorted, or blurred.
• Your picture shows an unnatural skin tone.
• There are red-eye effects in your picture.

Head position:

• Your head is either too close or too far away from the camera.
• Your head is not in the center of the picture.

Background:

• The background of your photo is not white.
• The background of your photo has patterns, designs, or objects.
• You take your picture at scenic spots.
• The color of your clothes is identical to your background.

Facial feature:

• Your eyes are blocked by your sunglasses, the reflections caused by your transparent glasses lenses, or the frames of your glasses.
• Your hair covers your eyes, eyebrows, ears, or the edges of your face.
• You wear a hat and other headgear.
• Your image is so close to the camera lens that your facial features are incomplete in the picture.

Shadow:

• There are shadows in the background of the photo or across your face.

How to Take My China Online Visa Photo at Home?

After skimming through so much information on what you should do and what you should avoid doing on your China online visa, you must be confident enough to take your photo in person, right? Why not follow these guidelines and have a try?

There are two main steps of making your China online visa, one is to take a picture of yourself, and the other is to adjust it to make it standard. Here we prepare some tips for you.

• Select a plain white wall as your background and stand in front of it when you take your picture. If you can not find one, our online photo editor can help you remove your old background and replace it with the correct one.
• Put on your normal clothes and remove your headgear, accessories, and glasses (if possible).
• Relax and keep a neutral expression.
• Ask other people to help you take pictures with your cell phone and select the best one.

When you finish snapping your picture, it is time to perfect it. Most people will choose to use a photo tool to do this job because it will save time and effort for you. All you need to do is upload your photo to our handy photo generator and wait for seconds, and then you can download your standard China online visa photo!