What are the UPSC photo requirements?

They are in the notification for the examination concerned and have changed between years, including a requirement for a visible date on the photograph. Use the notification rather than a general figure.

Does the photograph need a date on it?

Recent notifications have required it. Check the one for your examination — it is a rejection reason that a resizer cannot correct after the fact.

How recent must the photograph be?

Notifications specify a window, commonly within a few months of the application. An older photograph risks rejection even if it meets every dimension.

Is my image sent to a server?

No. Processing is entirely in your browser.

UPSC Photo Resizer

Prepares a photograph and signature for the UPSC application portal, meeting its pixel dimensions and file size limits.

Runs in your browser — nothing is uploaded

Your image

Drop an image here

or choose a file — it never leaves your browser

Preset: 350 × 350 px, under 300 KB. Union Public Service Commission. Always check the exact requirement on the portal you are applying through — they do change.

Result

Your processed image appears here.

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Why use it

Built to be genuinely useful

Photograph and signature

Both are required, with different specifications, and either being wrong stops the application.

Exact targets

Set the dimensions and the KB limit from the notification and the output meets them, rather than approximating with a quality slider.

Nothing is uploaded

The arithmetic runs in your browser. Salary, marks and tax figures are nobody else's business, and none of it is sent anywhere.

Free, no sign-up

No account, no limit on how many times you run it, and no result held back.

How it works

Three steps

1
Open the image.
2
Crop, then set the dimensions and size limit.
3
Download and upload.

The notification is the specification

UPSC publishes photograph and signature requirements in each examination's notification, and they have been revised — including the introduction of a requirement that the photograph carry the date on which it was taken. A figure from an earlier year or a third-party page can be wrong in a way that is only discovered at rejection.

Recent notifications have also required the photograph to be taken within a specified window before the application. That is not something a resizer can fix, and it is worth reading before spending time on the crop.

Why this stage deserves care

The photograph and signature you upload appear on the admission certificate and are checked against you at the examination centre. An image that is legible on screen but degraded in print creates a problem on the day, when there is no opportunity to correct it.

Resize to the required dimensions first and compress only as far as the limit demands. Aiming straight for the smallest possible file produces an image that passes the upload and fails the person holding it.

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