How to use it· 5 steps
- Leave the preset on Photo and drop your photograph onto the box above.
- Drag and zoom until the face sits between the dashed guides, then download — the file lands under 50 KB at 35 × 45 mm.
- Switch the preset to Signature and use Change file to load your scanned signature.
- Crop tight to the ink and download the 60 × 20 mm strip, under 20 KB.
- Upload both to the SSC portal, and keep the originals in case a correction window opens.
Step by step
How to use the ssc photo & signature resizer
- 1Leave the preset on Photo and drop your photograph onto the box above.
- 2Drag and zoom until the face sits between the dashed guides, then download — the file lands under 50 KB at 35 × 45 mm.
- 3Switch the preset to Signature and use Change file to load your scanned signature.
- 4Crop tight to the ink and download the 60 × 20 mm strip, under 20 KB.
- 5Upload both to the SSC portal, and keep the originals in case a correction window opens.
What SSC asks for
Before a SSC form asks you anything about yourself, it asks for two files that pass a machine check. For CGL, CHSL, MTS, GD Constable, Stenographer and the other SSC papers, recent notifications have wanted a photograph at 35 × 45 mm and 20–50 KB, and a signature at 60 × 20 mm and 10–20 KB, both JPG. Those are the numbers this page opens with.
Treat those numbers as a strong default rather than gospel. SSC revises its specification between cycles, and a single line in your own notification overrides anything written here — which is why the size fields stay editable. Open the notice, read the two lines about the photograph and the signature, and if they differ from the presets, type the numbers from the notice.
Two details behind the numbers are worth knowing. The lower bound matters as much as the upper one: a file under 20 KB is rejected as readily as one over 50 KB, and it is the bound candidates trip over, because compressing "as small as possible" is the instinct. And the dimensions are checked as dimensions — a photograph at the right file size but the wrong aspect ratio comes back cropped strangely on the admit card, even when the upload itself succeeds.
Recent SSC cycles have also asked candidates to hold a placard or show the date in the photograph — check your notice, and re-shoot rather than editing a date onto an old picture.
Why SSC uploads get rejected
Most SSC upload failures are not really about size. The portal's size check is the one that fails loudly and immediately; the ones that cost people their candidature fail quietly, weeks later, at verification. Three come up again and again:
First, a photograph older than the window the notice allows — SSC has tightened this repeatedly, and recent cycles ask for a photo taken within the last three months, sometimes with the date printed on it.
Second, a signature in capital letters, which the commission treats as printing rather than signing.
Third, a photo cropped so tightly that the ears and the top of the head are cut off, or so loosely that the face is a small patch in the middle.
None of those are compression problems, and no resizer can fix them after the fact — which is the honest reason this page spends as many words on the source photograph as on the tool. Get the original right and the rest is thirty seconds of cropping.
Doing both in one visit
The tool above holds both of this form's presets, so photograph and signature are two passes over the same page rather than two different websites. Start with the photograph: drop it in, drag to position the face between the dashed guides, zoom until the head fills roughly the middle two-thirds of the frame, and download. The output is 35 × 45 mm rendered at 300 DPI, encoded at the highest quality that still fits under 50 KB.
Now change the preset to Signature and drop in your scan. The face guides vanish, and the crop box becomes the 60 × 20 mm strip the form is expecting. Trim to just outside the ink, leaving a thin white margin — a signature adrift in the middle of an A4 sheet spends its entire 20 KB budget on blank paper, which is precisely why undersized signature files come out grey and broken.
Everything happens inside your browser. The photograph and the signature are decoded, cropped and re-encoded by this tab, and neither the image nor its file name is sent anywhere. For an exam application that is not a nicety: a photograph plus a signature plus a name is most of what an identity-fraud attempt needs, and the sites that rank for these queries mostly collect exactly that.
Before you hit submit
The best SSC photograph is taken, not fixed. Stand a metre from a plain white wall, have someone else hold the phone at eye level, and use daylight from the front — the result survives compression to 50 KB with the face still clearly readable, which is all the verification officer cares about.
For the signature, sign on unlined white paper with a black pen that puts down solid ink, then photograph it flat in daylight rather than scanning it at an angle. Thin, faint or shadowed ink is what makes a 20 KB signature look like grey mush.
Keep the full-resolution originals somewhere that survives the application: a correction window, a second session, an interview call or the document verification can all ask for the same images again, and re-deriving them from a 50 KB copy means starting from something already degraded.
SSC's one-registration model is what makes this worth doing carefully: the photograph you upload follows you from registration through every SSC paper you sit that year, and into the document verification where a very different-looking photo becomes an argument you do not want to have. Spend the extra minute on a well-lit, front-facing source image, because you are not re-doing this per exam.
Answers
Frequently asked questions
What photo and signature size does SSC want?
Recent notifications have asked for a photograph of 35 × 45 mm at 20–50 KB and a signature of 60 × 20 mm at 10–20 KB, both JPG. This page opens with both presets loaded. Specifications do change between cycles, so confirm against your own notification — the fields above are editable if it differs.
Do I need a fresh photograph for every SSC exam I apply to?
No — and that is exactly why this one matters. SSC's one-registration model carries the photograph you upload at registration through every SSC paper you sit that year, and on into document verification. You are not re-doing this per exam, so a rushed photo now is one you live with for the cycle.
My notice asks for a placard or a date in the photograph. Can I add it afterwards?
Re-shoot instead. Editing a date onto an older picture is the version that fails at verification rather than at upload, which is the expensive place to fail. Recent SSC cycles have asked candidates to hold a placard or show the date in-frame — read your own notice and take the photograph it describes.
My signature uploaded fine. Why was it rejected later?
Most often because it was written in capitals. The commission treats block capitals as printing rather than signing, and that judgement happens at verification, well after the portal accepted the file. Sign the way you normally sign, in a single continuous hand.
Is my photograph or signature uploaded to a server?
No — nothing is sent anywhere. Your browser decodes the file, crops it and writes the JPEG locally; the page has no upload step to fail at. Worth stating plainly, because a photograph and a signature are exactly the pair you would least want on an unknown server, and most sites ranking for "ssc photo signature resize" ask for both.
Does the file format matter?
It does. SSC portals expect JPG or JPEG, and this tool always writes JPEG — including when your source was a PNG, a WebP or an iPhone HEIC. Renaming a .png to .jpg does not convert it, and the portal's check reads the file's contents rather than its name.