Compress Photo for Government Exams | MiniPx — Free, Fast & Private
Indian government exam portals have strict image size requirements that vary by examination. SSC typically requires 20-50KB for photos and 10-20KB for signatures. RRB railway exams need 20-50KB. IBPS bank exams require 20-50KB. State PSC exams vary by state, usually 20-100KB.
The challenge is that phone cameras produce photos of 4-12MB — 100 to 600 times larger than what portals accept. MiniPx bridges this gap by combining compression with dimension reduction to hit exact size targets.
For most government exams: upload your photo, select JPEG format, Tiny preset, and 800px max width. This produces files of 20-60KB — within the limits of virtually every exam portal. For signatures, the same settings typically produce 10-30KB files.
MiniPx shows the exact file size after compression, so you can verify compliance before submitting your application. If the file is slightly over the limit, reduce width to 640px. If the portal still rejects it, crop tighter to the face or the signature rather than hunting for a smaller width.
Some exams publish specifications different enough to be worth their own page, because the general advice above will fail them. UPSC wants a triple signature and caps the photograph at 200KB. CTET states its sizes in centimetres rather than pixels and gives the signature only a 3-30KB window. GATE allows up to 600KB but enforces an aspect ratio between 0.66 and 0.89, so uploads there fail on shape rather than size. Check your own notification against those pages before compressing. If a portal has already refused your file, work through the eight usual causes — four of them have nothing to do with file size.
Your passport photos and signatures stay completely private. MiniPx processes everything in your browser — your identity documents are never uploaded to any server during compression.