Photo and signature at the exact size your form wants.

Getting a form upload accepted

Most government portals ask for three things: a colour photograph, a scanned signature, and sometimes documents as a PDF. Each portal sets its own rules, one wants 20 KB, another 50 KB; one asks for 200 × 230 pixels, another for 3.5 cm × 4.5 cm. A file that misses those numbers gets rejected at the last moment, often minutes before the deadline.

For the photograph

• Take it in good light against a plain background. White or a light colour is safest.
• Let the face fill roughly 70–80% of the frame. Drag and zoom to set that.
• Use the exact pixel size the portal asks for, not a rounded one.

For the signature

• Sign on white paper with a black or blue pen, then photograph it in good light.
• Run it through the signature cleaner, a phone photo always picks up a grey cast from the paper.

For documents

• Turn your photos into a PDF first, then compress that PDF to the size limit.
• Scanned certificates compress much further than text documents, so a tight limit is usually reachable.

• Photo and signature size for exam forms, what pixels, KB and DPI each mean, and how to convert cm to pixels correctly.
• Why your photo upload keeps failing, the six usual causes, in the order worth checking.
• How to hit an exact KB size, why there is no "make it 50 KB" button, and what to do instead.

• Every exam photo and signature size in one table, thirteen exams, with the KB range, the pixel size and the date each was checked.
• Every upload error and its fix, what the portal is really checking when it shows each message.
• Which tool for which upload, photograph, signature, thumb impression, declaration or PDF.