IBPS Clerk Photo and Signature Size

How to use this tool

1. Choose your photograph, or drag it onto the box above. It is cropped to fill 200 × 230 px from the centre — never stretched, so faces keep their proportions.
2. There is nothing to set. This page is already fixed at 200 × 230 px, between 20.0 KB and 50.0 KB, JPEG.
3. It crops to exactly 200 × 230 px without stretching anything, then adjusts quality until the file fits.
4. Check the verdict before downloading. Because this form has a floor as well as a ceiling, the panel tells you whether the file landed inside 20.0 KB–50.0 KB — not merely under the top.

Identical upload specification to IBPS PO, including the thumb impression and handwritten declaration.

IBPS Clerk Photo and Signature Size — the specification

IBPS Clerk Photo and Signature Size: why uploads get rejected

A file can be the right size and still bounce — and here the size itself has two edges, since anything under 20 KB is refused just as firmly as anything over 50 KB. These are the failures that actually come up:

• The upload is a PNG. The IBPS Clerk portal reads the file header, not the extension, so renaming photo.png to photo.jpg changes nothing — it is refused before the 50 KB limit is even considered. Re-encode it as real JPEG.
• The photograph came in under 20 KB. IBPS Clerk publishes a range, 20–50 KB, and the floor is enforced as strictly as the ceiling. Candidates who compress repeatedly to "be safe" usually fail this way.
• The signature does not meet 140 × 60 px, 10–20 KB, JPG. It is a separate upload from the photograph with its own limit, and it is the one most often overlooked.
• The signature was photographed rather than scanned, so white paper came out grey and the 20 KB limit forced the quality down further. Sign in black or dark blue on plain white paper, shoot in daylight with no shadow across the page, and crop tightly to the strokes before resizing — a signature floating in half a sheet of paper ends up a few pixels tall once it is fitted to the box.
• The signature is in block capitals. IBPS Clerk rejects capital-letter signatures explicitly — it must be your running handwriting.

How it works

Hitting a size limit exactly is a search problem, not a setting. There is no quality value that means “50.0 KB” — how many bytes a given quality produces depends entirely on the picture. So this tool encodes, measures the real file, and adjusts.

Here the dimensions are fixed at 200 × 230 px by the specification, so scaling is not available as a lever. Everything has to come from the quality setting, and the tool reports honestly when the two requirements cannot both be met.

Where the first attempt already fits — as it did on the reference file below, at 28.4 KB — the search stops immediately rather than compressing further for no reason.

The crop, the resize and every encode happen on your own device through the browser’s canvas API. A photograph for an official form is not a file worth handing to someone else’s server, and this page never receives it.

A measured run of this exact preset

Not an estimate: this page’s own code, run against a scanned signature and a 12.2 MP photograph, with every encode recorded. The files and the method are published here.

Step by step

The dimensions here are fixed by the specification (200 × 230 px), so the image cannot be scaled to help. The file size has to come from quality alone.

The first attempt, at quality 0.96, produced 28.4 KB — already inside the 50.0 KB allowance, so no search was needed. One encode and it was done.

Final file: 28.4 KB, using 56.8% of the allowance, with 21.6 KB to spare.

The two inputs do not behave the same way, and the gap is the useful part: the scanned signature finished 1.5× larger than the 12.2 MP photograph under the same settings. Detail costs bytes. If your own file is flat — a scan, a screenshot, a document photographed straight on — expect results nearer the 12.2 MP photograph row.

Who needs IBPS Clerk Photo and Signature Size

Candidates filling the IBPS Clerical Cadre form, usually close to the deadline when the ibps.in portal is slowest. Having the photograph and signature ready in the right format and inside 20–50 KB removes the most common reason a submission fails at the final step.

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