Exam Form Photo and Signature Resizer for SSC, UPSC, IBPS
Seven presets for the photo and the signature the big exam forms ask for, in one place, so filling one form does not need two tabs open. Crop to the exact pixels, hit the KB range, tag the DPI, and download - everything runs in your browser and your files never leave your device.
Specs differ by exam, by cycle and between sources. Every preset here is a commonly cited figure, not a permanent rule. Confirm the exact pixel size and KB limit on your exam's official notification PDF before uploading.
Read this before you start
UPSC added a live photo capture step to the CAF, and SSC CGL now captures the photo by webcam or mobile rather than by upload. A tool like this cannot replace live capture. What it does is prepare the passport-style photograph those systems compare against, and the signature scan, which is still an upload on every one of these exams. Check your notification for which steps apply this cycle.
Preparing a 35 x 45 mm photograph to print rather than to upload? The passport photo tool is built for that print case and offers a print sheet.
Need the UPSC three-signature stack, a custom size, or auto-trim from a photo of a full page? Those are on the signature resizer.
The signature is still an upload on every exam listed here, including the ones that moved the photograph to live capture.
Drag & Drop your photo or signature here
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Import from your computer, a public URL, Google Drive, or Dropbox.
JPG, PNG, WebP, HEIC - up to 100MB per file, 100 files per batch
This looks like a photo of paper rather than a scan. Ink cleanup will help.
Cleans the paper background and darkens the ink. It does not redraw your signature, and it cannot rescue a blurred or smudged one.
Leave it off for a clean scan. Pushed too far it eats thin strokes.
Auto-trim is not here. It lives on the signature resizer.
Portals reject PNG and HEIC. This tool always outputs JPEG. There is no format selector because there is no other correct answer here.
This tool cannot check - your responsibility
A recent photograph is usually required, commonly within the last three to six months. The tool cannot tell how old your photo is.
DPI is metadata. On a pixel-and-KB upload spec it changes nothing. It is written anyway because a few portals and print shops read it.
Output is always JPEG, because portals reject PNG and HEIC. Downloads are named photo.jpg or signature.jpg by the active tab, which is what many portals demand, and numbered photo-1.jpg, photo-2.jpg in a batch. Re-encoding strips EXIF and GPS metadata after baking in the camera's rotation tag - smaller files and more privacy. This tool does not remove or replace backgrounds and does not detect faces; it samples and reports honestly instead.
UCT Tools is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to UPSC, SSC, IBPS, SBI or any government body.
Everything runs in your browser. Your photo and signature are never uploaded to our servers and never leave your device.
This exam form photo and signature resizer carries the UPSC, SSC, IBPS and SBI presets for both uploads in one place, so filling in a single application does not mean opening two tools. Four photo presets on one tab, three signature presets on the other, a shared crop stage, and everything running inside your browser with nothing uploaded.
Before you prepare a photograph, check whether your exam still wants one. UPSC added a live photo capture step to the CAF, and SSC CGL now captures the photograph by webcam or mobile rather than by upload. A tool like this cannot replace live capture. What it does is prepare the passport-style photograph those systems compare against, and the signature scan, which is still an upload on every exam listed here including the ones that moved the photograph. That distinction is worth two minutes of reading your notification before you spend twenty on a file.
The photo tab covers the UPSC 350x350 square and 200x230 portrait, the SSC GD, CHSL and MTS frame at 275x354 which is 35x45mm at 200 DPI, and the IBPS and SBI 200x230. Two of those are the same pixel size with different weight rules, and the tool says so rather than letting it look like a duplicate. Head guides sit across the crop box on all four, and their positions differ by preset because UPSC cites a looser face coverage than a document photograph uses.
The signature tab covers SSC at 315x157, banking at 140x60 and the UPSC 350x350 square, with an ink cleanup slider for the usual input, a phone photo of ink on paper that came out grey. Signatures fail differently from photographs: they compress below their minimum rather than above their cap, so quality gets raised rather than lowered and the real number is reported instead of the file being padded.
Two small rules cause real rejections and almost nobody mentions them. Output is always JPEG, with no format selector, because portals reject PNG and HEIC outright. And downloads are named photo.jpg or signature.jpg in lowercase by the active tab, because many portals require exactly that filename. In a batch they are numbered, and the tool tells you a portal expecting one exact name will need a rename.
If you need the UPSC three-signature stack, a custom size for a state PSC, or auto-trim from a photo of a full page, those live on signature resize, which is the signature specialist. If you are preparing a 35x45mm photograph to print rather than upload, passport photo has the print sheet. PAN card photo and Aadhaar photo handle their own documents, and all five sit under government photo tools.
When the requirement is a bare number with no exam attached, the general tools are quicker: image resizer for any width and height, resize image to KB for a weight target, crop image for free cropping and DPI changer for a density on an existing file. Those live under image resize and DPI tools.
Both Uploads, One Tool
Photo and signature presets for UPSC, SSC, IBPS and SBI on two tabs, sharing one crop stage, so a single application does not need two tools open.
Guides That Match the Exam
UPSC cites a looser face coverage than a document photo, so the head guides sit differently per preset rather than one set being reused everywhere.
The Filename Rule
Downloads are named photo.jpg or signature.jpg in lowercase by the active tab, because many portals require exactly that and reject anything else.
It Tells You About Live Capture
UPSC and SSC CGL now capture the photograph by webcam. The page says so up front, and says the signature is still an upload on every exam here.
How to Prepare an Exam Photo and Signature
Open your notification PDF first. Pixel size, KB range and filename are three separate rules, they differ by exam and by cycle, and all three are checked at upload.
1. Check What Is Still an Upload
Some exams moved the photograph to live webcam capture. The signature is still an upload on all of them, so start with whichever step your notification actually asks for.
2. Pick the Tab and Preset
Photo or Signature, then your exam. The crop shape locks straight away, and switching tab re-fits whatever is already loaded to the new preset.
3. Frame It
On a photo, line the head up between the guides. On a signature the guides disappear and the ink cleanup slider appears for greyish paper.
4. Download as photo.jpg
Read the verified panel first. The file is named for the active tab, which is what most portals expect, and a batch is numbered from there.
Exam Form Photo and Signature Presets, Side by Side
There is no before-and-after slider on this page. Cropping to an exam frame changes the framing, not the picture, so two versions of the same photo would prove nothing. Here is the full seven-preset grid instead, and every value is what the tool actually writes.
| Preset | Output | Crop shape | File size rule | DPI tag | Head guides |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UPSC CSE square (photo) | 350 x 350 px JPEG |
1.000 square | Targets 150 KB 20 to 300 KB |
300 DPI | 11 / 45 / 86 |
| UPSC CSE portrait (photo) | 200 x 230 px JPEG |
0.870 portrait | Targets 150 KB 20 to 300 KB |
300 DPI | 11 / 45 / 86 |
| SSC GD / CHSL / MTS (photo) | 275 x 354 px JPEG |
0.777 portrait | Targets 35 KB 20 to 50 KB |
200 DPI | 7.5 / 45 / 90 |
| IBPS / SBI (photo) | 200 x 230 px JPEG |
0.870 portrait | Targets 35 KB 20 to 50 KB |
300 DPI | 11 / 45 / 86 |
| SSC signature | 315 x 157 px JPEG |
2.006 landscape | Targets 15 KB 10 to 20 KB |
200 DPI | None |
| IBPS / SBI signature | 140 x 60 px JPEG |
2.333 landscape | Targets 15 KB 10 to 20 KB |
300 DPI | None |
| UPSC signature | 350 x 350 px JPEG |
1.000 square | Targets 60 KB 20 to 100 KB |
300 DPI | None |
Two rows worth reading twice. The UPSC portrait and the IBPS preset are the same 200 x 230 frame with different weight rules, 20 to 300 KB against 20 to 50, so they are not duplicates. And the head guides differ by preset: UPSC cites roughly 75 percent face coverage, which is the 11, 45 and 86 percent set, while the SSC 35 x 45 mm frame is a document photograph at the tighter 7.5, 45 and 90. Every crop shape is the output width divided by the output height, taken from the pixels rather than the millimetres, so nothing is ever stretched to fit. These are commonly cited figures and they move between cycles, so confirm against your exam's notification PDF. Current SSC notifications are published on ssc.gov.in.
What an Exam Form Photo Upload Actually Has to Satisfy
An exam application asks for two files that have almost nothing in common. A portrait photograph and a landscape signature, in different shapes, with different weight limits, and increasingly with different submission routes. Preparing them in two separate tools is how one of them ends up at the other's specification, which is a rejection that gives you no clue which of the two rules you broke.
Start with the question that decides whether you need a photograph file at all. UPSC added a live photo capture step to the CAF, and SSC CGL now captures the photograph by webcam or mobile rather than by upload. Nothing prepared in a browser can substitute for a live capture session. What a prepared photograph is still good for is the passport-style reference those systems compare against, and for the exams and stages that have not moved. The signature, meanwhile, is still an upload on every exam listed on this page, including the ones that changed the photograph. Read the current SSC notifications or your own exam's equivalent before you spend time on a file the portal will not ask for.
The specifications themselves move. Different sources print different numbers for the same exam in the same cycle, and the SSC photograph in particular is cited anywhere between 200x230 and 275x354 pixels for what everyone agrees is a 3.5 by 4.5 centimetre frame. This tool uses 275x354, which is that frame at 200 DPI, and says so on the preset rather than presenting one figure as settled. Every preset carries its own line pointing you back at your notification, because a page that is right this cycle and silent about next cycle is only half useful.
Everything runs through the browser's Canvas API on your own machine. Nothing is transmitted, queued or stored, and the page keeps working after the connection drops. An exam application pairs your photograph with your signature, which is a more sensitive combination than either piece alone, and it is not one worth handing to a stranger's server for a resize.
⚖ Photo Tab Against Signature Tab
| Property | Photo tab | Signature tab |
|---|---|---|
| Presets | Four, across UPSC, SSC and IBPS | Three, across SSC, IBPS and UPSC |
| Orientation | Portrait, or square for UPSC | Landscape, or square for UPSC |
| Head guides | Yes position varies by preset | No hidden entirely |
| Ink cleanup | No | Yes off by default |
| Usual failure | File too heavy | File too light |
| Still an upload in 2026 | Some exams moved to live capture | Yes, on every exam here |
| Default download name | photo.jpg | signature.jpg |
The failure row runs in opposite directions and that catches people out. A photograph carries detail and lands above its ceiling, so quality comes down. A signature is mostly white paper with a few thousand dark pixels, compresses to almost nothing, and lands below its floor instead. A tool that only knows how to compress will hand you a twelve kilobyte signature against a twenty kilobyte minimum and report success.
📷 When to Use the Photo Tab
Your Notification Wants an Upload
Where the photograph is still a file rather than a live capture, these four presets carry the pixel size, the weight range and the DPI tag your exam family expects.
You Need the Framing Right
Head guides sit at positions that match the exam rather than one set reused everywhere. UPSC is a looser frame than a document photograph and the guides reflect that.
The Spec Is in Centimetres
SSC states 3.5 by 4.5 centimetres, so that preset outputs 275x354 pixels with a 200 DPI tag, which is that frame exactly. The others are pixel specs where the tag changes nothing.
You Are Filing from a Phone
Take the photograph, crop it against the guides, meet the size rule and upload, on the same device, without the picture reaching anyone else on the way.
✍ When to Use the Signature Tab Instead
The Shape Is Landscape
SSC and banking signatures are wider than they are tall. Feeding a portrait crop into a landscape box produces a squashed or padded result, which is a rejection rather than a blemish.
Your Paper Photographed Grey
The ink cleanup slider lifts near-white paper to pure white and deepens the stroke without shifting its hue, which is what a phone photo of a pen on paper actually needs.
The File Landed Too Light
Quality is raised rather than lowered to reach a stated minimum, and the raised figure is reported. The file is never padded with meaningless bytes to hit a number.
You Need More Than a Preset
The three-signature stack, auto-trim from a full page and custom sizes are not here. They live on signature resize, which is the specialist page for exactly that.
✨ What This Tool Does Differently
It Names the Live Capture Shift
Most pages selling an exam photo resizer never mention that UPSC and SSC CGL moved the photograph to webcam capture. Knowing that before you prepare a file is worth more than the file.
It Gets the Filename Right
Downloads are photo.jpg or signature.jpg by active tab, lowercase, because many portals require exactly that. Batches are numbered and the tool says a single-name portal needs a rename.
Guides That Are Not One Size
UPSC cites roughly 75 percent face coverage and a 35x45mm document frame wants about 82.5. Those are stored per preset rather than one set being applied to everything.
Both Files Stay on Your Device
Canvas and JavaScript in your own browser. Your photograph and your signature together are worth more to a bad actor than either alone, and neither is uploaded.
📋 Everything the Tool Does
- ✓ Seven presets across two tabs: four photographs and three signatures, sharing one crop stage
- ✓ Switching tab re-fits every loaded crop to the new preset, and is blocked while a batch is running
- ✓ Crop ratio derived from the output pixels, so nothing is stretched to fit a frame
- ✓ Head guides stored per preset, at 11/45/86 for UPSC and IBPS and 7.5/45/90 for the SSC document frame
- ✓ Guides hidden entirely on every signature preset, along with their label
- ✓ Ink cleanup on the signature tab only, off by default, preserving the pen colour
- ✓ Quality lowered toward a ceiling and raised toward a floor, whichever the file needs
- ✓ JPEG output with no format selector, because portals reject PNG and HEIC
- ✓ Downloads named photo.jpg or signature.jpg by the active tab, numbered in a batch
- ✓ DPI written into the JFIF header and verified by reading the finished bytes back
🔢 Step by Step
- Open the notification, not a summary Third-party guides disagree with each other and with the official PDF. Take the pixel size, the KB range and the required filename from the notification itself, then match a preset to it.
- Check which steps are still uploads Some exams capture the photograph live now. The signature is still a file on every exam here, so if the photograph has moved, the signature work on this page still applies.
- Do the photograph, then switch tabs Pick the photo preset, frame the head between the guides, download. Then switch to the signature tab, where the crop turns landscape and the guides disappear.
- Read both results before uploading Check dimensions and file size on each. If the signature landed under its minimum the tool says so, and that is information you want before the portal gives it to you.
⚙ Technical Notes and Honest Limits
No face detection, no recency detection, and no claim that a prepared file will be accepted. Below are the four parts of this tool that are easiest to get wrong, including two decisions that look like small details and are not.
An Indian passport photograph is checked against a head occupying roughly 80 to 85 percent of the frame height, which is a tight crop. UPSC cites about 75 percent face coverage, which is noticeably looser, and using the passport figure on a UPSC upload produces a photograph cropped closer than the exam asks for. So the guides are stored per preset: 11, 45 and 86 percent for the UPSC and IBPS frames, giving a 75 percent head, and 7.5, 45 and 90 for the SSC 3.5 by 4.5 centimetre frame, giving about 82.5 because that one is a document photograph rather than an exam-specific crop. They remain a visual aid in every case. Nothing here measures your face.
Several portals validate the uploaded filename as well as the file, and expect exactly photo.jpg or signature.jpg in lowercase. A file called IMG_20260804_113255.jpg is rejected for a reason nobody explains on the error screen. So downloads are named from the active tab rather than from whatever your camera called the original. In a batch they are numbered photo-1.jpg, photo-2.jpg and so on, which is honest about there being more than one but will still need a rename if your portal wants a single exact name. The tool says so rather than letting your browser produce photo(1).jpg and leaving you to discover it at upload.
JPEG spends its bytes on detail, and a signature has very little. Most of the frame is one flat colour, so the encoder describes it in almost no data and the finished file lands below the minimum a portal expects. This tool probes maximum quality first, and if that is still under the floor it searches upward for the largest encode it can produce, reporting the raised quality on the result. When even maximum quality cannot reach the floor it says so and hands you the file anyway, because your portal may accept it. What it will not do is append filler bytes to inflate the file, which would pass a byte count while being quietly dishonest.
There is no output format selector, because portals in this category reject PNG and HEIC outright and offering the choice would only create a way to fail. Input is flexible: JPG, PNG, WebP and HEIC all decode, with the HEIC decoder fetched only when a HEIC file actually arrives. Phone photographs store an orientation tag rather than rotating their pixels, so the decode step reads that tag and bakes the rotation in, which is why a portrait shot arrives upright. Re-encoding then writes a clean JPEG with no EXIF block, so the camera model, the timestamp and any GPS coordinates in the original do not travel with the file you submit.
💡 Real Situations This Solves
An SSC application on the closing evening, needing a photograph and a signature at two different sizes with two different weight limits, from a phone, with the notification PDF open in another tab.
An upload rejected with no explanation, where the file was correct but the name was not. Some portals check for photo.jpg exactly, and no error message ever mentions it.
Someone about to spend an hour preparing a UPSC photograph for a step that now captures it live by webcam, when the signature was the only file that actually needed making.
A photograph prepared to passport proportions and submitted to UPSC, cropped tighter than the exam wants because a generic tool applied one set of head guides to everything.
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FAQs - Exam Form Photo and Signature
What is the photo size for an SSC exam form?
▼SSC GD, CHSL and MTS are commonly cited at 3.5 by 4.5 centimetres, which at 200 DPI is 275 by 354 pixels, with the file between 20 and 50 kilobytes. Sources disagree, and figures from 200 by 230 upward circulate for the same frame. This tool uses 275 by 354 and says so on the preset, but confirm against your notification PDF before uploading.
What is the UPSC photo and signature size?
▼UPSC CSE is commonly cited at 350 by 350 pixels square or 200 by 230 portrait for the photograph, with 20 to 300 kilobytes allowed, and 350 by 350 for the signature at 20 to 100 kilobytes. UPSC also added a live photo capture step to the CAF, so check whether your stage still accepts an uploaded photograph at all.
Do I still need to upload a photo for UPSC and SSC CGL?
▼Not always. UPSC added a live photo capture step to the CAF, and SSC CGL now captures the photograph by webcam or mobile rather than by upload. A browser tool cannot replace live capture. The signature is still an upload on every exam covered here, so that part of the work applies regardless of what happened to the photograph.
Why do the head guides move between presets on this tool?
▼Because the exams ask for different framing. An Indian document photograph is checked against a head filling roughly 80 to 85 percent of the frame, while UPSC cites about 75 percent, which is looser. Using the tighter figure on a UPSC upload crops closer than the exam wants, so the guide positions are stored per preset rather than one set being reused.
What filename should I use for my exam photo upload?
▼Many portals require exactly photo.jpg and signature.jpg, in lowercase, and reject anything else without explaining why. This tool names downloads from the active tab for that reason, rather than from whatever your camera called the original. In a batch they are numbered, so a portal expecting one exact name will need the file renamed.
Can I upload a PNG or HEIC to an exam portal?
▼No. Portals in this category reject both outright, which is why this tool always outputs JPEG and has no format selector at all. Input is flexible, so a HEIC from an iPhone or a PNG screenshot both work fine as a starting point, and the decoder for HEIC is fetched only when a HEIC file actually arrives.
Why is my signature file smaller than the minimum allowed?
▼That is normal. A signature is a few thousand dark pixels on a field of white paper, and JPEG compresses that kind of content to almost nothing, so the file often lands below the stated floor even at maximum quality. The correct fix is to raise quality, which this tool does, reporting the raised figure rather than padding the file with meaningless bytes.
Does this tool have the UPSC three-signature stack?
▼No, and that is deliberate. The three-signature stack, auto-trim from a photograph of a full page, and custom sizes for state PSC forms all live on the signature resizer, which is the specialist page for signature work. This page carries the exam presets for photograph and signature side by side, and links across for the rest.
Does the DPI setting matter for an exam upload?
▼Usually not. Most exam specs are stated in pixels and kilobytes, and on an upload the DPI tag changes nothing. It matters on the two presets stated in centimetres, the SSC photograph and the SSC signature, where the 200 DPI tag is what makes the file measure the stated physical size if it is ever printed.
Does the tool check whether my photo will be accepted?
▼It checks what software can check: exact dimensions, file size against the range, format, the DPI tag read back from the finished bytes, and a background sample. It cannot judge face coverage, expression, whether the photograph is recent enough, or whether your exam moved that step to live capture this cycle. Those are listed separately as yours.
Is it safe to prepare exam files on an online tool?
▼On this page nothing is uploaded. Everything runs through the Canvas API inside your own browser, so neither file is transmitted, queued or stored, and you can disconnect after the page loads and it still works. That matters here because an exam application pairs your photograph with your signature, which is more sensitive than either piece alone.
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Seven presets across UPSC, SSC, IBPS and SBI, correct filenames, JPEG only, and honest numbers in both directions. Free, no sign-up, nothing leaves your device.
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