Why exam photo uploads get rejected
Most exam and passport photo forms fail candidates for one of two reasons: the pixel dimensions are wrong, or the file is outside the byte-size range the form checks for. Cameras and phones produce photos that are far too large in both senses — a modern phone photo is typically 3000+ pixels wide and several megabytes, while a form like IBPS wants exactly 200 × 230 pixels and 20–50 KB. Getting from one to the other by hand, in a generic photo editor, means guessing at a “quality” slider and re-uploading until the number happens to land in range.
This tool does the guessing for you: pick the exact requirement (or type your own width, height, and size range), drop in a photo, and it resizes, crops, and compresses to match — entirely in your browser. Nothing is uploaded to a server.
The real problem is usually the minimum, not the maximum
Competing sites focus on “compress your photo” as if the only risk were a file that’s too big. In practice, at a fixed small pixel size like 200 × 230, a plain-background JPEG at maximum quality often comes out to only 15–25 KB — comfortably under most people’s idea of “compressed,” but under IBPS’s 20 KB floor. A form that rejects “file too small” confuses people who assume smaller is always safer.
To fix that without touching the image, this tool pads undersized JPEGs with a harmless comment block (COM segment) until the file reaches the required minimum. The pixels are untouched — only bytes that no viewer displays are added. One caveat worth repeating: if the exam portal re-encodes your upload after you submit it (some do), that padding can be stripped back out, so it’s worth checking the size the form reports after upload, not just before.
Supported requirements
| Requirement | Pixels | File size |
|---|---|---|
| IBPS photo | 200 × 230 | 20–50 KB |
| IBPS signature | 140 × 60 | 10–20 KB |
| IBPS left thumb impression | 240 × 240 | 20–50 KB |
| IBPS handwritten declaration | 800 × 400 | 50–100 KB |
| SSC signature | not fixed | 10–20 KB |
| IIT JAM photo | up to 480 × 640 | 50–200 KB |
| IIT JAM signature | up to 160 × 560 | 50–150 KB |
| Korean passport photo | 413 × 531 | not specified |
| UK digital passport photo | 600 × 750 minimum | 50 KB minimum |
Each requirement has its own page with the source notice, the exact numbers, and notes specific to that form — use the dropdown above, or jump straight to a spec page.
SSC no longer has a photo upload
If you’ve seen a page selling an “SSC photo resizer, 20–50 KB,” that requirement is gone. Starting with the 2026 notices, SSC CGL captures the candidate’s photo live at the exam centre — there is no photo upload step at all. The only image field left in the application is the signature, at 10–20 KB. Sites still advertising an SSC photo size are working from an old cycle’s requirements, or from a competitor’s page that copied one.
The SSC notice itself is also internally inconsistent about the signature’s physical size — §9.6 specifies 6.0 × 2.0 cm while the annexure specifies 4.0 × 2.0 cm. Since only the file size is actually enforced on upload, this tool doesn’t force a pixel size for the SSC signature — it just gets the file into the 10–20 KB range, whatever dimensions you scan it at.
If you don’t see your form here
Not every exam appears above — this list only includes requirements confirmed against an official notice or portal, with the source and the date we checked it. If your form isn’t listed, use the custom option: enter the width, height, and min/max size directly, or use one of the plain “resize to N KB” pages if only the file size matters.