Photo Guidelines for Online Submissions

Submitting a photo online for your VCU Campus Card can be easy as long as you understand our expectations. Your image must accurately represent what you currently look like and also meet our Photo Standards. Review the information below to help you select or take a good photo for your ID before you submit an ID Request Form online.

  • Do use a current image of yourself (less than 3 months)
  • Do have normal contrast and lighting
  • Don't use photo filters
  • Don't Photoshop yourself into a photo
  • Don't have someone else in the photo with you
  • Don't take a photo of a photo

Photo Examples

Bad Photos


DENIED


Don't have too much hair in or close to your eyes. 

DENIED


Don't use a random selfie. Don't have other people behind you.

DENIED


Don't zoom in too close to your face or cut off any part of your head.

DENIED


Don't use side profiles where the position of your head or body is turned away from the camera.

DENIED


Don't use a random selfie with an exaggerated facial expression.

DENIED


Don't use a car selfie. Don't use your hands.

Good Photos


APPROVED

APPROVED

APPROVED

APPROVED

APPROVED

APPROVED