# Photo requirements: Driving licence, Spain

The published rule for this document’s photograph — from Dirección General de Tráfico, as it was read on 2026-09-21 — and a way to make one that meets it without sending your face to anybody.

Last updated 2026-09-21

## The figures

| What is measured | What this rule publishes |
| --- | --- |
| Print size | ⁦26 x 32⁩ mm at 300 dpi |
| Head, chin to crown | 70.0% to 80.0% (⁦22.4–25.6⁩ mm) (guidance) |
| Eye line, from the bottom | 50.0% to 60.0% (⁦16–19.2⁩ mm) (guidance) |
| Background | Plain and light — no colour is published |
| Upload rule | none published — this one is a print |

[Make this photo](https://abox.tools/id-photo/#es-driving-licence) Opens the photo tool with this rule already chosen. It runs in your browser: the photograph is never uploaded, and there is no account and no watermark.

## What else this rule says

- The same small ⁦32 x 26⁩ mm as the DNI, in colour, on a plain background — the DNI’s has to be white and this one only has to be plain. Since 6 November 2024 no photograph is asked for where the DGT already holds one, and a medical centre that does the renewal takes it there; this is for the cases that are left.
- No head-height band is published for this one, so the ICAO figures are shown in its place and are never marked as a failure. Frame it the way the rule describes in words and the numbers follow.

## Where these figures come from

Transcribed from Dirección General de Tráfico — sede.dgt.gob.es, Renovación de permiso próximo a caducar. Checked 2026-09-21. Rules change; the figures above are what to check against the form in front of you.

## What the tool does with them

- Locks the crop to this document’s shape, and draws the head and eye bands inside it, so you can see the rule on your own photograph instead of reading about it.
- Finds the crown, the chin and both pupils by measuring the picture — no face model is downloaded — and says in millimetres whether the head is too large or too small for this rule.
- Reads the background colour and how evenly it is lit, and says which of the two is the problem when there is one.
- Writes the print at the exact millimetres with the resolution in the file, a sheet of them with cut marks, and the upload file at the pixel and file size this rule states.

## Other documents, Spain

- [Passport and identity card (⁦Pasaporte, Documento Nacional de Identidad⁩)](https://abox.tools/id-photo/es-passport/) — ⁦26 x 32⁩ mm

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