Exam Photo and Signature Resizer — free, instant, private.

A good resizer must hit three targets at once — exact pixel dimensions, a file size inside the allowed KB range, and the right format. Sarkari Photo has ready presets for SSC, UPSC, IBPS, NEET, UP Police and more, and it runs fully in your browser so your photo is never uploaded.

Open your exam’s page on Sarkari Photo (or pick it from the home page), upload your photo or signature, adjust the crop frame, optionally turn on the name & date strip or the signature background cleaner, and click Process & Download. You get a JPG at the exact pixel size and inside the KB range your exam portal accepts — ready presets cover SSC, UPSC, IBPS, SBI, NEET, JEE, RRB, CTET and UP Police.

Open sarkariphototool.com in Chrome or Safari on your phone, choose your exam or the Compress Image to 50KB tool, pick the photo from your gallery or camera and download. Instead of one blunt compression pass, the tool searches for the highest JPEG quality that still lands between 20KB and 50KB, and only lowers resolution if quality alone cannot get there — so your face stays sharp. No app install is needed.

Use the Add Name and Date on Photo tool: upload your photo, tick “Add name & date to photo”, type your name exactly as it appears in the form, set the date the photo was taken and choose a date format. A clean white strip with crisp text is added at the bottom, and the final photo is still sized to 3.5cm × 4.5cm passport proportions and compressed to the required KB.

Open an exam page that uses a 140×60 pixel signature, such as SBI PO, switch to Signature mode, upload a clear photo or scan of your signature, crop tightly around the ink and tap Process & Download. The output is a 140×60 px JPG compressed into the 10KB–20KB range. Because 140×60 is a very small image, keep the signature dark and well-filled so the file doesn’t fall below the 10KB minimum.

Sign on plain white paper with a black or blue pen, photograph it in daylight without your phone’s shadow falling on the page, then upload it to the Signature Resizer. Keep “Clean Paper Background (Signature Enhancer)” switched on — it removes paper shadows and grey tint, turns the background pure white and keeps the ink dark. Use the Cleanup strength slider or Auto-detect if faint strokes disappear.

The standard Indian passport size photo is 3.5cm × 4.5cm. At 300 DPI that is 413×531 pixels; at 200 DPI it is about 276×354 pixels (JEE Main uses 275×354). Many exams set their own pixel size instead — SSC CHSL 200×240, IBPS 200×230, UPSC 350×350 square — so always use your exam’s preset. Typical file size limits are 20KB–50KB or 20KB–100KB in JPG.

You do not need to print it yourself for SSC CGL or SSC GD: the photo is captured live through the webcam during the application and the portal records the capture date automatically. For SSC CHSL, follow the current notification — if it asks for the date of taking the photograph, enable the name & date strip, set the actual date the photo was taken and keep the photo recent (generally within 3 months).

Use the free Compress Image to 20KB or Compress Image to 50KB tool. Upload your JPG, PNG, WEBP or HEIC image, crop if needed and download — the tool repeatedly tests JPEG quality levels until the file lands just under your KB limit, then hands you the highest-quality version that fits. No watermark, no sign-up and no file-count limit.

UPSC accepts a square photo and a square signature, each between 350×350 and 1000×1000 pixels and between 20KB and 300KB, in JPG format. The photo needs a plain white background with your face clearly visible; the signature must be handwritten in black ink on white paper and scanned — typed or digitally drawn signatures are rejected. Our UPSC IAS preset defaults to 350×350px.

IBPS PO (and IBPS Clerk): photo 200×230px, 20KB–100KB; signature 200×80px, 10KB–50KB; left thumb impression 240×240px, 20KB–50KB; handwritten declaration 800×400px, 50KB–100KB. SBI Clerk and SBI PO use a tighter limit: photo 200×230px, 20KB–50KB; signature 140×60px, 10KB–20KB; left thumb impression 240×240px, 20KB–50KB. All files must be JPG.

NEET UG asks for two photos taken on the same day: a passport size photo of 3.5cm × 4.5cm and a postcard size photo of 4 × 6 inches (10.16cm × 15.24cm, about 384×576px), each between 10KB and 200KB in JPG with a white background and the face covering about 80% of the frame. The signature is 4KB–30KB.

Pixels = centimetres ÷ 2.54 × DPI. At 300 DPI, 3.5cm × 4.5cm becomes 413×531 pixels; at 200 DPI it becomes about 276×354 pixels. If the portal specifies a pixel size, use that number exactly — our exam presets already apply the right pixels, and the 50KB compressor and Add Name and Date tool default to 413×531px.

The usual causes are a signature cropped with too much empty space (so the ink becomes tiny when resized), a grey or shadowed background, a thin ballpoint stroke, or a file squeezed far below the KB limit. Crop close to the ink, sign with a darker pen, keep the Signature Enhancer on for a pure white background, and use your exam’s exact preset — SSC wants 10KB–20KB, IBPS allows 10KB–50KB.

Just upload the HEIC (iPhone) or PNG file directly — the tool converts it to JPG inside your browser and compresses it under your exam’s KB limit in the same step, so there is no separate converter needed. If your browser cannot decode a particular HEIC file, the tool tells you; export the photo as JPEG from your Photos app (or set Camera → Formats → Most Compatible) and try again.

Yes. Your photo and signature never actually leave your device — all cropping, compression, name & date stamping and signature cleaning run inside your browser, and nothing is sent to or stored on any server. The tool is 100% free with no watermark and no sign-up.