UPSC Combined Defence Services Examination — resize your photo, signature, and documents to the exact size required. Nothing is ever uploaded.
| Item | Dimensions | File size | Format |
|---|---|---|---|
| Photo | 350 × 350 – 1000 × 1000 px | 20-300 KB | JPG |
| Signature | 350 × 350 – 1000 × 1000 px | 20-300 KB | JPG |
Also need to: compress a PDF to a size limit or make a passport-style photo?
UPSC Combined Defence Services Examination applicants need their photo and signature to match the portal's exact upload requirements — currently photo, signature, each with its own pixel size and file-size window. UPSC applications go through a multi-stage process, and a rejected or malformed photo/signature at the initial registration stage can cause avoidable delays well before the exam itself — the portal's own upload tool is unforgiving about both pixel dimensions and file size.
This page pre-loads UPSC CDS's own spec into the resizer below, one tab per required item, so you can upload a photo, crop it to the correct ratio, and compress it into the required KB range without looking up a single number yourself.
UPSC applications go through a multi-stage process, and a rejected or malformed photo/signature at the initial registration stage can cause avoidable delays well before the exam itself — the portal's own upload tool is unforgiving about both pixel dimensions and file size. 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.
If the portal asks for a specific DPI and you're not sure what that means, 300 DPI (the print-industry default) satisfies almost every form that specifies one. Everything runs in your browser using Canvas and WebAssembly — your photo is never uploaded anywhere, including to this site.
Common reasons a UPSC CDS photo or signature gets rejected:
As loaded in this tool (not yet independently verified against the latest official notification): photo at 350 × 350 – 1000 × 1000 px (20-300 KB), signature at 350 × 350 – 1000 × 1000 px (20-300 KB). Always cross-check this against the current UPSC CDS notification before submitting, since specs can change between recruitment cycles.
No. Cropping, background removal, and compression all run locally in your browser — your photo is never sent to a server, including ours.
The photo is more than a few months old, or taken in different lighting/clothing than what the portal's guidance expects. This tool's crop-and-compress flow is built specifically to avoid that.
A clear photo works fine — sign in dark ink on plain white paper, photograph it in good light, then use this tool's background removal and auto-trim to clean it up into a proper signature file.
Always check the official UPSC CDS notification directly at https://upsc.gov.in before submitting — specs in this tool are a starting point, not a guarantee they match the current cycle.