There are e booths in many supermarkets .. cost is about 10€ for 4 photos plus an electronic code which you need to upload your photo online for your cds.

 

Generally most phot booths in France will produce the code. It is printed along with your 'official' phots and once you have that you normally just need to upload the code. Sometimes yo need to upload a photo as well, but on many official sites they can access the photo from the code.

 

Google maps, search for Photomaton and you'll find locations for them. Here they're in the mall, Monoprix, and the train station as well as other locations. There are many options, and not all of them give you a photo code, so pay attention to the menus (available in English).

 

Thank you everybody, this is great!
So no option to do from home right? I've seen online some ads for e-photo using a mobile app, but I feel that might be some kind of scam or misleading advertisement?

 

I've seen online some ads for e-photo using a mobile app, but I feel that might be some kind of scam or misleading advertisement?

There may be a way to do that - but the Photomaton booths are pretty widely available and quick and easy to use.

 

Thank you all for your help with these.
My experience after trying a few options: Photomaton is the "easiest" / fastest option indeed. And only about 6 EUR (at the time of writing the post) for the most part. Photomaton is everywhere indeed, can find on their official website or via Google Maps. Note however that in my case I had to do it twice. I got my e-photo code from one booth and even though it had green tick next to my photo on the last stage of the process, the application for Carte de sejour complained that photo was not the right standard. Then I went to a different Photomaton (which happened to be an older model by the looks of it, and only with French interface) and it worked. Also in both cases I needed to wait a few hours (minimum 2 hrs) for the code to be recognised (I guess it takes time to upload behind the scenes, its not immidiate).

 

My wife and I went to a photo studio. It only cost €15 for the two of us. Much more comfortable than a booth, extra paper copies of the photos, and the codes were waiting for us (email) when we got home.

 

I had a similar situation recently when sorting out my visa documents. Initially thought I could use one of those apps that say they generate e-photo codes, but after reading the fine print, decided not to risk it. Ended up using a Photomaton in my local Carrefour—quick enough, but yeah, it took a couple of hours before the code actually worked. Had to go back a second time too because the first photo got rejected, even though it seemed fine.

Later on, when I was editing some of the raw photo files for another version of the application, I had to figure out how to edit avi files properly. Found a tool that worked well and didn’t need a steep learning curve, which saved me a lot of time.

 

Looks like this is an old thread, but in case it is helpful to anyone, my son was recently able to take his photo online: How to get ePhoto code for French document applications online on ANTS website?

 

I read this topic with great interest. I have never heard of an E-photo code. We have always had bother with photo booths producing acceptable images for official French I.D. cards etc. so have used the method posted by Bellthorpe above. Never had a rejection due to image quality.
More recently we have had a problem regarding sending photos online. We have been using Transferwise (aka Wise) for our monthly pension currency exchange for well over a decade but some new regs came into force and they wanted a load more personal information about us including a photo of each of us holding an I.D. card. They locked us out of our accounts until we complied. They continually rejected our submissions sent by email and insisted the image was to be produced using a "smart" phone so it could be sent over the mobile network. 1) We didn't have a smart phone. there is no point in having one because we have no network coverage here. 2) I borrowed one from a friend and tried many times to produce the image and then drive to a point where there was a mobile signal but all were rejected. 3) The problem appears to be that in order to get a face in good focus at the same time as the details on an I.D. card is next to impossible. I even tried it with a high-end Nikon digital camera with added lighting but could not get both features in focus. Three weeks of effort trying to get them to accept our image submissions and we abandoned the battle.
Now we have had to give up the fast cheap exchange service of Wise and have to resort to either our UK bank or other exchange rate companies that are almost as complicated to do an exchange and certainly more expensive in fees.

It looks like this E-photo code thing is one more burning hoop to jump through.