Signature files for SSC and RRB, and why neither wants a photograph any more
Processed in your browser. Nothing is uploaded. Updated on 25 Oct 2026.Neither SSC nor the railways accepts a photograph file now: both capture it live through the camera while the form is being filled, and photographing a printed photo is a stated ground for rejection. There is nothing to resize, which is worth knowing before spending an evening on it. The signature is still a file, and each body wants a different band.
SSC is already chosen; the page notes that SSC takes the photograph live, so only the Signature needs a file.
Add the signature scan; its pixel size is worked out from 6 by 2 cm at the DPI in Scanned at, 300 to start.
Choose RRB (Railways) under Exam instead for a railway form; its band is 30 KB to 49 KB.
Press Make the file, then Download once the result reads Ready to upload.
An Indian application portal checks two things and rejects the upload if either is wrong: the pixel dimensions, and the file size in kilobytes. Ordinary tools solve one and break the other. A resizer gets 200 by 230 exactly right and hands back 180 KB. A compressor gets to 40 KB by scaling the picture down, which is the one move that is not available here, because the portal is measuring the pixels.
Every portal states a band, not a ceiling. IBPS wants a signature between 10 KB and 20 KB, and a clean black-on-white signature at 140 by 60 pixels encodes to about 4 KB at any quality a browser will produce. There is nothing in the image to spend bytes on, so no slider reaches 10 KB, and the portal refuses the file for being too small.
SSC and the Railway Recruitment Boards no longer accept a photograph file. Both capture it live through your camera while the form is open, and both notices state that photographing a printed photograph is a ground for rejection. There is no KB target to hit. UPSC has also moved portal, and the widely repeated figures come from a registration module UPSC itself marks as no longer applicable.
The rest of the article, and all 7 questions about Exam Photo and Signature Resizer, are on the Exam Photo and Signature Resizer page.
IBPS and SBI both ask for a photograph of 200 by 230 pixels weighing 20 to 50 KB, and a signature of 140 by 60 pixels weighing 10 to 20 KB, both JPEG. A left thumb impression at 240 by 240 and a hand-written declaration at 800 by 400 are also required.
No. SSC now captures the photograph through your camera while the application is open, and the notice states plainly that a candidate is not required to have a pre-existing photograph. Photographing a printed photo is a ground for rejection. Only the signature is still uploaded, at 10 to 20 KB.
Nothing at all. The photograph and the signature are read, resized and re-encoded by your own browser, and no copy is sent anywhere. That matters more here than on most pages, because a passport photograph and a specimen signature together are the two documents most useful to somebody impersonating you.
A dark or detailed photograph at a small pixel size sometimes stays above the ceiling even at low quality, and the dimensions may not be reduced. The page says so rather than handing back a file that will be rejected, and the two things that genuinely help are a plainer background and a tighter crop before uploading.
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