Exam Photo & Signature Resizer
Get your photograph, signature or thumb impression to the exact dimensions and file size your application form insists on. Pick your exam and the requirement is filled in for you.
- Choose your exam and whether you're uploading a photograph, signature or thumb impression. The requirement appears automatically.
- Select your image. A preview shows the exact crop that will be saved — use the slider to move a face up or down in the frame.
- Click Resize & Compress. The file lands inside the required KB range and downloads as a JPEG.
Why these forms reject so much
Recruitment portals check uploads mechanically, and they check more than most candidates realise. A file is rejected if it is the wrong pixel size, if it is over the maximum, if it is under the minimum, or if it is not a JPEG. Each of those is a separate gate, and an ordinary image compressor only handles one of them.
The minimum is the one that catches people out. Almost every Indian recruitment form specifies a range — 20 to 50 KB for a photo, 10 to 20 KB for a signature — and a signature scan compressed to 6 KB is rejected just as firmly as one at 60 KB. Tools that only shrink files cannot solve this, so candidates end up re-scanning repeatedly with no idea what is wrong.
This tool targets the band rather than a ceiling. It finds the best quality that fits under the maximum, and if the result falls below the minimum it raises quality first, and only pads the file as a last resort — using JPEG comment blocks, which every decoder ignores, so the picture itself is untouched.
The specifications, side by side
| Exam | Photograph | Signature | Thumb impression |
|---|---|---|---|
| SSC CGL, CHSL, GD, MTS |
200 × 230 px 20–50 KB |
140 × 60 px 10–20 KB |
Not required |
| IBPS PO, Clerk, RRB banks |
200 × 230 px 20–50 KB |
140 × 60 px 10–20 KB |
240 × 240 px 20–100 KB |
| UPSC CSE, NDA, CDS |
No fixed size 20–200 KB |
No fixed size 20–100 KB |
Not required |
| NEET / NTA | No fixed size 10–200 KB |
No fixed size 10–100 KB |
No fixed size 10–200 KB |
Get the photograph right before you resize
No tool rescues a bad source image. A few minutes here saves a resubmission:
- Plain, light background. White or very light grey. A patterned wall or a doorway behind you is the most common rejection after size errors — and a plain background also compresses far better, which makes hitting the KB limit easier.
- Even, front-on light. Face a window. Overhead light casts shadows under the eyes and nose; flash flattens and overexposes.
- Face filling most of the frame. Most boards want the face to occupy roughly 75–80% of the height, with both ears visible.
- No cap, no sunglasses, neutral expression. Prescription glasses are usually fine if there is no glare, but several boards now ask for photos without spectacles — check your notification.
- Recent. SSC asks for within 3 months, IBPS within 6, NEET on or after a stated date.
And the signature
Sign in black ink on plain white paper, in your normal running handwriting. Every major board rejects signatures written in block capitals — this is stated explicitly in SSC, IBPS and NTA instructions and is a genuinely common rejection.
Photograph or scan it straight on, crop tightly to the signature itself, and let the tool do the rest. A tight crop matters: empty white margins waste pixels in a 140 × 60 box and leave your actual signature tiny and illegible.