Two limits, not one: pixels and the KB range
Every application portal checks two separate things. The first is dimensions: the image must be an exact pixel size, such as 200 × 230 pixels for a photo or 140 × 60 for a signature. The second is file size — and unlike most uploads, exam forms set a range, not just a ceiling. A photo must usually be between 20 KB and 50 KB. A file of 51 KB is rejected for being too large, and a file of 12 KB is rejected for being too small, even though it is a perfectly clear photo.
That minimum is why ordinary compressors fail this job: they only make files smaller. This tool works to the range itself. It crops your image to the exact pixel dimensions, chooses the highest quality that fits under the maximum, and if the result comes out under the minimum — common with small signatures, which compress to almost nothing — it balances the file up into the required range. The downloaded readout states the final pixels and KB so you can compare them with your form before uploading.
The presets below follow the size chart the major boards currently publish. Recruitment boards do change these numbers between cycles, sometimes quietly, so the last step is always yours: read the photo and signature paragraph in your official notification and check the preset against it. If your board has changed a value — or your form is a state board, university or company not listed — switch to Custom and type the exact width, height and KB range from the notification. The tool will match those numbers instead.
| Exam / board | Photo size | Photo pixels | Signature size | Signature pixels |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SSC (CGL, CHSL, MTS, GD) | 20–50 KB | 200 × 230 px | 10–20 KB | 140 × 60 px |
| SBI & IBPS (Clerk, PO, RRB) | 20–50 KB | 200 × 230 px | 10–20 KB | 140 × 60 px |
| Railway RRB (NTPC, Group D, ALP) | 30–70 KB | 35 × 45 mm | 30–70 KB | 50 × 20 mm |
| UPSC (CSE, NDA, CDS) | 20–300 KB | 350 × 350 px min. | 20–300 KB | 350 × 350 px min. |
| CTET | 10–100 KB | 3.5 × 4.5 cm | 4–30 KB | 3.5 × 1.5 cm |
Boards change these limits between recruitment cycles. Treat the table as the current common standard — and always compare it with the numbers printed in your own official notification before you submit.
How to use Photo & Signature Resizer
Upload your photo or signature
Drop the image you plan to submit — a phone photo against a plain wall works for the photo; for a signature, sign on white paper and photograph it straight-on in good light.
Pick your exam preset, or Custom
Choose SSC, banking, Railway, UPSC or CTET and the preset loads the published pixel size and KB range. Anything else — a state PSC, university or private employer — goes in as Custom values from your notification.
Position it in the frame
Drag the image inside the frame and use the zoom slider so the face fills the photo frame naturally, or the signature sits centred with a small margin. The frame is the exact shape the portal will receive.
Download and read the result line
The tool reports the final dimensions and file size, for example 200 × 230 px at 34.2 KB. Compare those two numbers with your notification, then upload the JPG to your form.
Built for India's application season
The same candidate often applies to five or six recruitments in one season — SSC in one tab, a banking exam in another, a Railway or state board form on the phone — and each portal wants the same photo and signature repackaged to slightly different numbers. The presets hold the common standards for the big national boards so the repeat work takes seconds, and Custom mode absorbs everything else, from state police and teaching eligibility forms to university admissions and PAN or passport-seva uploads that state their own dimensions.
Everything runs on the phone most candidates actually apply from. There is no app to install, no account, and no queue: crop, compress and download happen on the device, which also means a signature image — one of the most sensitive images a person owns — is never transmitted anywhere.
One photo, three portals, ten minutes
A candidate in Patna is applying to SSC CGL, IBPS Clerk and a state board in the same week. From one clear photo taken at home she makes the SSC and banking versions at 200 × 230 pixels inside 20–50 KB, then uses Custom with the state board's own numbers for the third. Her signature, signed once on white paper and photographed, becomes the 140 × 60 pixel, 10–20 KB version two portals ask for. Each download states its size on screen, so she checks every file against its notification before uploading — no studio visit, no rejected application, no last-day panic.
When your form is not in the preset list
India has hundreds of recruiting bodies, and no preset list can hold them all: state PSCs, police and teaching boards, universities, PSUs and private employers each publish their own photo and signature rules, and change them between cycles. That is exactly what Custom mode is for. Open the notification PDF, find the photograph and signature paragraph, and copy the four numbers — width, height, minimum KB, maximum KB — into the tool. If the notice gives centimetres instead of pixels, multiply by 118 per centimetre (the 300 DPI standard) or make the photo with the passport photo maker, which works in millimetres directly.
What resizing cannot fix
This tool fixes size: pixels and kilobytes. Portals also reject photos for content, and no resizer can repair those. A photo older than the limit in your notification (often three months), a photo with a cap, sunglasses or a busy background, or a signature that runs outside its box or is signed in the wrong colour ink can all be refused at the exact right size. Take the photo fresh, against a plain light wall, in daylight; sign in blue or black ink on plain white paper; then let the tool handle the numbers.
If a portal still refuses a file whose size you have verified, the next suspects are format and name: some portals accept JPG only (this tool always downloads JPG) and a few older portals are strict about file names with spaces. Rename the download to a simple name like photo.jpg or sign.jpg and try once more.
The other size tools
Need the printed version instead? The passport photo maker produces exact 35 × 45 mm and 2 × 2 inch photos with a printable sheet of copies. If a form only states a file-size ceiling with no pixel size, the one-tap resize image to 50KB, 100KB and 200KB tools compress any image straight to that target.
Your signature never leaves your device
A signature image is effectively a blank signed cheque if it leaks, and a passport-style photo is identity data. This page therefore follows the rule every EasyPDFEdit tool follows: the file is read and processed by your own browser, on your own device, and is never uploaded, stored or seen by us. Close the tab and nothing remains. Download your result, keep it in the same folder as the rest of your application documents, and delete working copies from shared phones once the form is submitted.