Photo for DS 160 form

[Hydgal]

Hi

I seem to be the only moron sitting up at 1 am here and frustrated on my inability to do this. Im trying to figure how do you add a digital passport pic?
Do you take a digital passport pic and then either via a cd or scan a pic and then choose upload?
Any assistance/input is greatly appreciated.
This is urgent as I need to book an appt and need to complete my form first to be able to do that.

Thanks

[shervin143]

This post might help.
http://www.immihelp.com/forum/showthread.php?t=89001

[adurga]

The Visa photographs (not only US for any country) are something special that it is best taken by Professional photographers instead of by us or family members. The professionals get themselves updated with the parameters required that are set by the respective countries. The photograph studios don’t charge much. In Hyderabad they charged me 100Rs for the JPEG (copied into my Pen drive) and 4 paper photographs.
Also not sure whether you have noticed that the website, where we fill out details for generating DS 160 form, does the validation of the photograph we upload.

[kabkaba]

It is actually not that difficult. You can take the photo yourself against a white background in a well lit room with a decent resolution digital camera. Take many pics with different zoom levels and with/without flash etc. Load these onto your computer.
and start the photo tool. With this crop your photos to the correct size and save the cropped photos to your hard disk.
Then go to DS160 link and have your cropped photos tested using test photo tool. With enough trials and errors you will get it right. I have done it for myself, my parents, and in-laws.
You can then take the cropped photo that worked and get a print of 2inches by 2 inches and you are good to go.