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Straight-talking guides on getting exam photos, signatures and documents to the exact size portals demand — and why they keep rejecting yours.
Photo or Signature Not Uploading in an Exam Form? A Cause-by-Cause Checklist
Your file is the right size but the form still refuses it. Work through the real causes: KB definitions, pixels, format, file name, browser and camera permission.
Read the guide →Photo Looks Blurry After Compressing? How to Stay Under the KB Limit and Keep Your Face Sharp
Measured on six portraits: how much JPEG quality a 20–50 KB limit really allows, why photos turn blurry, and five fixes that keep the face sharp.
Read the guide →Why Exam and Application Photos Get Rejected: Face Size, Background, Glasses and Shadows
A photo can pass the upload check and still be rejected later. The rules official notices actually state on face coverage, background, spectacles, caps and selfies.
Read the guide →How to Scan Your Signature With a Phone for an Exam or Job Form
Paper, pen, light and angle: how to photograph a signature on a phone so it comes out dark, sharp and on clean white, plus the box sizes different exams ask for.
Read the guide →"File Size Too Small": Which Exam Forms Have a Minimum KB, and How to Meet It
Exam forms with a minimum KB, from MHT CET's 100 KB photo to 10 KB signatures, why small images can't reach it, and the safe ways to increase the size.
Read the guide →iPhone Photos in Government and Exam Forms: HEIC, "Most Compatible" and Getting a JPG
Why exam portals reject iPhone photos, the iPhone settings that save JPG instead of HEIC, and how to convert a HEIC photo without uploading it anywhere.
Read the guide →Certificates as a PDF Under 100, 200 or 300 KB: the Scan Settings That Decide the Size
Why a scanned mark sheet is 3 MB and the form allows 200 KB: the settings that decide PDF size (colour, resolution, pages) and how to fix it without uploading.
Read the guide →Left Thumb Impression and Handwritten Declaration Uploads: Sizes and How to Make Them
Bank forms (IBPS, SBI, RBI, LIC), NEET UG, NEET PG and HTET ask for thumb impressions and declarations. Official sizes and a clean way to make each image.
Read the guide →Exam Photo Background Rules: Which Exams Want White, Which Want Light, and the Ones That Don't Want White
White, light, solid blue or 'not white': background rules from official notices for NTA, UPSC, banks, MPSC, OCI, MHT CET, passport and visa photos.
Read the guide →Live Photo Capture in Exam Forms: What It Is, Which Exams Use It, and What You Still Upload
SSC, BPSC, NEET PG (NBEMS) and bank forms capture a live photo with your webcam. How it works, how to pass it, and which files you still have to upload.
Read the guide →Passport Size Photo: 35 × 45 mm vs 2 × 2 Inch vs 3.5 × 4.5 cm, and Which Form Uses Which
35 × 45 mm and 3.5 × 4.5 cm are the same photo; 2 × 2 inch is square. Which Indian exams, IDs and visas use each shape, with official pixel sizes.
Read the guide →Aadhaar Photo: Why You Can't Upload Your Own, and How a Photo Update Works
UIDAI does not accept an uploaded photo for Aadhaar. Your photo is captured at an enrolment or update centre. What that means and what to do instead.
Read the guide →JPEG Quality vs File Size for Exam Photos and Signatures: Our Measurements
We encoded 6 portraits at exam sizes and qualities 50–100, measured signature ceilings and a background-removal test. Every number, and how we measured.
Read the guide →How to Resize a Photo and Signature for Online Forms: KB, Pixels, DPI and Passport Size (2026 Guide)
A complete, practical guide to resizing photos and signatures for exam and government forms: resize in KB, compress to 20/50/100 KB, pixels vs DPI, passport size, white background and fixing rejected uploads.
Read the guide →How to Get a White-Background Passport Photo at Home — Free, No Studio
Turn an ordinary phone selfie into a proper white-background passport or exam photo at home, for free, without uploading it anywhere. Step-by-step.
Read the guide →How to Resize a Photo to 20 KB or 50 KB Without Wrecking the Quality
A practical guide to compressing a photo to an exact KB size — 20 KB, 50 KB, under 100 KB — while keeping it sharp enough for exam and form uploads.
Read the guide →SSC Photo & Signature Size in 2026: Live Photo, Signature Specs and Fixing Rejected Uploads
The exact SSC photo and signature size (dimensions, KB, format), why the portal keeps rejecting your upload, and a step-by-step fix that takes two minutes.
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