If you don’t want to be treated as a cabbage (cai tao) and be “tok” (taken advantage of) and pay something like $8 for 6 passport-sized photos, I suggest you take your own. For $0.40-$0.50, you can have up to 8 passport-sized photos in a 4R print-out. Most people find it a chore but I beg to defer. You see… the photographer near my place screwed up my passport photo on two separate occasions (this photographer cannot make it). Plus, she always pissed me off by insisting that I clipped-up my fringe when it’s obviously not obstructing my facial features. So what if I let my fringe down? I purposely like it this way and I shall take it my way and submit it as it is… fyi, it’s not rejected…
Seriously, there’s a number of advantages:
1) Can take as many as you like and choose the one that you like best.
2) Can do a little bit of touch-up. Eh, no adjustments to facial features – e.g. cannot remove moles, etc. However, no one can stop you from removing pimples (if u don't know how, don't do it u cos u don't want to find a "patch" on ur face... hahah ;p), performing some post-processing (keke ;p)…
3) Cheap and can reproduce as many as you like.
Things to take note of:
1) Refer to ICA Passport Photo Basic Requirements
2) To print passport-sized photo on 4R:
- Adjust pixel dimension of the photo that you have taken to 400 by 514 pixels with document/canvas size of 3.5cm by 4.5cm.
- Then create a new document of the size 4”x6” (4R) and paste 8 of the passport-sized images into this document (allow for a border around the edges to avoid being cropped off during printing).
- Flatten (to reduce file size if using Photoshop) and save as a jpeg file.
- Print and cut... bingo!