Printing UK Passport size photo's from my MacBook Pro

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Printing UK Passport size photo's from my MacBook Pro

I've looked through the various posts over the years that have covered this and similar printing questions, but I'm uncertain whether things have changed (I recently switched from using a MS PC to a Mac), but I used to do all my photo printing from Adobe Photoshop Elements and short of buying this again for use on my Mac, I can't seem to find a simple way of creating and printing 45 x 35 mm photos (UK Passport size) from images I've stored on my "Photos for Mac". I can see there are "create" options provided by Apple via preferred App suppliers, but I'm not that keen on buying these services when I'm sure there is a solution to be found in my Mac. Anyone out there got any suggestions??

MacBook Pro 13", macOS 10.14

Posted on Jul 22, 2019 6:42 AM

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corgimajor Author

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Jul 23, 2019 6:49 AM in response to Old Toad

HI Old Toad, Thanks for your continued interest and support for a Mac newbie. In the interim I have found a work around. I found that if I replicated the image I wanted for the Passport photo 5 times in "Photos for Mac" (so I had 6 images of the same mug shot) and then selected all of them to print in the "contact print" format option, but chose the 4x6 photo paper option for the paper media / size option. I then modified the margin sizes around the image such that all 6 images were on the same page and printed.

The printed results were images that were 48 x 35 mm in size - so slicing 3 mm off the bottom of each image got me 6 useable Passport size photos. Bit of a faff, but I won't have to do it again for a while. In meantime I'm looking at a PSE subscription as I was obviously expecting too much from Photo's for Mac.

Thanks again for your help.

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Old Toad

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Jul 22, 2019 6:04 PM in response to corgimajor

If you have Pages you could use it to print. Create the basic, small size layout and then add the passport image, resize and place in the upper left hand corner of the layout.

Or, any image editor that supports layers can be used.

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Old Toad

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Jul 22, 2019 10:09 AM in response to corgimajor

All of the organizing and printing will be from PSE.

1 - create a new layout in PSE for a borderless 6x4 photo or whatever is the small size equivalent there in the UK.

2 - open the image you want to print and add it to a separate layer in PSE. Size it as necessary and place in the upper left hand corner of the layout. This is so it will printed in the corner and will be easier to cut out as you'll only have to cut two sized.

Like I did here:

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corgimajor Author

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Jul 22, 2019 11:35 AM in response to Old Toad

Hi Old Toad,

Thanks for the guidance, but I haven't access to Adobe Photoshop Elements anymore. Customer support at Adobe kindly gave me a link to download the install for my version of PSE for a Mac, but my original licensed version of PSE for a MS PC (that they were good enough to convert free of charge) was too old to work with Mojave 10.14.5 so I'm going to have to consider buying a PSE subscription after all ! If I do, I'll be sure to follow your guidance. In meantime if you or anyone else has a "Mac only" solution to my question then I'd be happy to hear it.

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