Photo size in KB — 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 KB and 1 MB

A kilobyte target is the most common instruction on an Indian upload form and the least explained. This section covers the six windows that appear in real notices, and only those six. Pages for every round number in between used to exist and were merged, because a page that says "resize to 75 KB" with no portal behind it is filler — the tool link with the number pre-filled does the same job honestly.

Twenty kilobytes is the classic photograph ceiling on older state portals and the upper wall of the signature range that banking and commission notices set. It is small: expect to crop to head and shoulders to keep a face sharp.

Fifty kilobytes is the banking photograph window's upper limit, paired with a twenty-kilobyte floor and a two-hundred-by-two-hundred-and-thirty pixel box. It is roomy enough that a properly cropped photograph looks clean.

One hundred kilobytes shows up in university and scholarship forms and as the upper end of several signature ranges. Two hundred kilobytes is the National Testing Agency photograph ceiling and the per-document cap on the national scholarship portal.

Five hundred kilobytes is where image and document limits start to overlap; it is generous for a photograph and tight for a multi-page scan. One megabyte appears on identity-proof uploads, and the page explains why some portals write 1 MB and others write 1024 KB when they mean the same thing.

Each page states what that size means in practice, which pixel dimensions fit inside it comfortably, which portals we have actually seen printing it, and the error strings those portals return. If your number is not listed, the tool takes any value directly in its target field.

One habit is worth carrying into every page below. Settle the pixel dimensions before you chase a byte target, because shrinking a picture after you have compressed it changes the weight all over again and you end up going round the same loop twice.