Central Teacher Eligibility Test — resize your photo and documents to the exact size required. Nothing is ever uploaded.
CTET's exact photo/signature specs haven't been loaded into this tool yet. You can still resize your photo using the general tool below — just enter the dimensions and file-size range from the official notification.
Also need to: compress a PDF to a size limit or make a passport-style photo?
Central Teacher Eligibility Test applicants need their photo to match the portal's exact upload requirements — exact numbers for which haven't been loaded into this tool yet (see the notice above). Teaching eligibility test portals typically process a huge volume of applications in a short registration window, so getting your photo and signature right on the first attempt avoids losing time to a resubmission right before the deadline.
This page still gives you the full resizer tool below — you'll just need to enter CTET's dimensions and file-size limits yourself from the official notification, since they haven't been confirmed here yet.
Teaching eligibility test portals typically process a huge volume of applications in a short registration window, so getting your photo and signature right on the first attempt avoids losing time to a resubmission right before the deadline. Entering the target pixel size and KB range once, instead of fighting with an image editor's percentage-based "save for web" slider, is what actually gets a file to land inside a specific window on the first try.
The resizer binary-searches JPEG quality first (the gentlest way to shrink a file) and only reduces the actual pixel dimensions if quality alone can't fit under the maximum — so a photo doesn't get visibly softer than it needs to be just to hit a byte count.
Check the final pixel dimensions, not just the file size — a correctly-sized-in-KB image at the wrong width/height can still be rejected. Everything runs in your browser using Canvas and WebAssembly — your photo is never uploaded anywhere, including to this site.
Common reasons a CTET photo or signature gets rejected:
This tool doesn't have CTET's exact photo size loaded yet — check the official notification (linked above) and enter the dimensions into the general resizer below.
No. Cropping, background removal, and compression all run locally in your browser — your photo is never sent to a server, including ours.
The background isn't plain — a patterned wall, furniture, or another person visible behind you. This tool's crop-and-compress flow is built specifically to avoid that.
A phone photo works fine as long as the lighting is even and the background is plain — this tool's crop and background removal handle the rest.
Always check the official CTET notification directly at https://ctet.nic.in before submitting — specs in this tool are a starting point, not a guarantee they match the current cycle.