Is there a set background color for license photos?
The driver's license must be renewed every 3 or 5 years. In the past, only license photos taken at the driver's license center were accepted, but recently it has become possible to use the photo you brought in yourself as a license photo. When taking a photo at the driver's license center, the background color is generally blue. [Image] Blue and pink give such a different impression!?
Is it okay to use any color for the background of my driver's license photo?
In 2021, the criteria for application photos will be clarified, and the criteria are detailed on the Metropolitan Police Department website. Specifically, the photo must be 3 cm long x 2.4 cm wide, no hat (except for religious or medical reasons), front view, upper half, no background, taken within 6 months before application. It has become a thing. Examples of inappropriate photos are also posted on the same page along with examples of appropriate photos. Among them, there are examples such as "scenery etc. are shown" and "the background is wallpaper pattern, curtain pattern, wall grain, etc.", and you can see that the background needs to be a single color. . On the other hand, it seems that there is no special specification for the color, but can the background color be any color? A person in charge of a license center in the Tokyo metropolitan area speaks as follows. "As long as the background is a single color, there is no special color stipulation as long as it doesn't blend in with the hair or clothes.For this reason, some of the people who bring in their photos have background colors such as orange, pink, and white. "There are no special colors specified, so it seems that some people are using colors other than the common blue or gray. In addition, it is said that there was a person with a white background at the license center above, but one of the examples of inappropriate photographs by the Metropolitan Police Department is that ``the outline of the face and clothing are assimilated with the background.'' I have an example. If you look at this, you can see that the background and clothes are all white and the face is blown away by the light. For this reason, it can be said that the circumstances under which white is accepted will change depending on the color of the hair and the color of the clothes at that time. Another person in charge of the license center explained as follows. "There is no particular color specified, but it is important that the person's outline can be seen clearly, so it will be difficult to adopt if the outline is unclear or blurred.There are examples of application photos on the website, etc. There is one, so please take a good look before bringing it in." You say that colors that blend with the clothes and don't blur the outlines are good, but is there no problem in choosing extreme primary colors? When I asked the above-mentioned person in charge about this, he said, "We will check the photo at that time and make a judgment, but if we can not recognize it as a person, we can not adopt it, so I thought it would be easier to choose a general background color. I think,' he says. Even if the color is not specified, there is a possibility that it will be assimilated with the clothes at the time of shooting, and the outline of the face may be blurred. In some prefectures, there are examples of inappropriate photos that state that they are "extreme primary colors such as black and red," so it would be safer to refrain from using primary colors. * * * * Recently, it seems that more and more users are choosing pink as the background color of their driver's license. A staff member of a photo studio in Tokyo who takes ID photos and other things said, "Basically, the background is chosen by the customer, and women tend to prefer orange and pink." In the past 2018, as a promotion of the compact car "March", Nissan carried out a campaign in which ID photos can be taken with the background color of "Nadeshiko Pink", which is the image color of the March. In a tie-up with DNP, which handles ID photography machines, it is possible to shoot with a pink background if you use the target camera, in addition to the "KiRe-i" that is still installed nationwide. It is Since the color can be changed by machine, there are many posts on social media, especially by women, who change the background to pink. It seems that some photo studios at license centers allow you to choose the background color to be pink, so there seems to be a gradual change from the conventional license photo. The conventional blue and gray colors give a calm impression, but the pink color makes it look gorgeous and gentle. The impression may change a little by changing the color of the driver's license, which is also used as an identification card, to pink.
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