SSC Photo Resizer (20KB-50KB)

SSC Photo Resizer — Resize & Compress Your Photo to 20KB-50KB Online, Free

Every SSC recruitment form — SSC CGL, SSC CHSL, SSC MTS, SSC GD Constable, Selection Post, Stenographer, JE, CPO, and the OTR (One Time Registration) profile — asks for the same thing: a passport-style photograph that is exactly 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm, saved as a JPG between 20 KB and 50 KB. It sounds simple until you actually try it — a phone photo is usually 2-5 MB and entirely the wrong shape, and getting it down to SSC's narrow 20-50 KB window by hand in Paint, WhatsApp or a random "photo resizer" app usually means three or four failed uploads before the size and shape finally line up together.

This tool does both in one pass, entirely inside your browser: crop to the exact SSC shape with a locked aspect-ratio box, so it is physically impossible to crop it the wrong shape, then compress automatically into your chosen KB range, and download a ready-to-upload JPG. No installation, no account, no watermark — and because everything runs on your own device, your photograph is never sent to any server.

SSC Photo Size Requirement: 3.5 x 4.5 cm, 350 x 450 Pixels, 20KB to 50KB

These are the figures SSC notifications have used consistently across recent recruitment cycles. SSC can revise the exact numbers from one notification to the next, so always check your own — but this is what the tool targets by default:

All of these have to match together — a photo that is the right pixel size but the wrong file size, or the right file size but cropped to the wrong shape, still gets rejected. That is exactly why a general-purpose photo resizer often fails here: it can hit one of these numbers, rarely all four (shape, pixel size, file size, format) at the same time.

Which SSC Exams Need This Exact Photo Specification

SSC (Staff Selection Commission) runs the CGL (Combined Graduate Level), CHSL (Combined Higher Secondary Level), MTS (Multi-Tasking Staff), GD Constable, CPO (Central Police Organisation), JE (Junior Engineer), Selection Post and Stenographer exams — each with its own separate notification, but all of them pointing back to the same underlying photo specification, because they all draw on the same OTR (One Time Registration) profile. Once you register on the SSC OTR portal with a photo in this shape, that same photo generally carries forward to every SSC exam you apply for afterwards, which is why getting it right the first time saves you from redoing this for every single application. If you are applying to more than one SSC exam this year, the photo you make here is the one photo you will need across all of them.

How to Resize Your SSC Photo Online — Step by Step

1. Choose a recent, front-facing photograph taken against a plain white or light wall — no cap, no dark glasses, a neutral expression.
2. Upload it here and drag the crop box until your head fills roughly 70-80% of the frame, from the crown of the head to the collarbone. The box is locked to SSC's 3.5x4.5 cm shape, so there is no way to crop it into the wrong proportions.
3. Pick a target size between 20 KB and 50 KB — 40 KB is a comfortable middle choice that most SSC and OTR forms accept without complaint.
4. Turn on "Add name & date" only if your specific notification explicitly asks for it printed on the photo — most SSC forms do not.
5. Press "Crop & compress", check that "Within target" shows a green tick, then download the JPG and upload it straight to your SSC application.

Common SSC Photo Upload Errors — and How This Tool Avoids Them

• "File size does not match" / "Invalid image size" — the photo was above 50 KB or below 20 KB. Picking a chip on this page (20/30/40/50 KB) fixes this on its own.
• "Dimensions do not match specified aspect ratio" — the crop was not a true 3.5x4.5 cm shape. The crop box here is locked to that ratio, so it physically cannot come out the wrong shape.
• "Invalid file format" — a PNG, WEBP or HEIC photo was uploaded where only JPG is accepted. This tool always outputs JPG regardless of what you upload.
• Photo rejected after upload for a dark or busy background — SSC wants a plain white or light background; use the background remover first if your wall is colourful or shadowed.
• Face too small / too large in the frame — zoom and drag inside the locked crop box until the head fills roughly 70-80% of it, from the crown of the head to the collarbone.

Tips for a Photo the SSC Portal Won't Reject

• Take the photo within the last few months — an old photo that no longer resembles you can cause trouble at the exam centre during document verification.
• Stand roughly a metre from a plain, evenly lit wall; avoid a shadow falling across your face or across the wall behind you.
• Remove spectacles, sunglasses and any headwear (except religious headwear where a notification explicitly permits it).
• Keep a neutral, natural expression — no wide smile showing teeth, no tilted head, look straight at the camera.
• If your only background is a patterned wall, a curtain or a doorway, run the photo through the background remover first and replace it with plain white before cropping it here.

Why This SSC Photo Resizer Is Safe to Use

A candidate's photograph is personal data — some SSC-linked forms even tie it to Aadhaar and other ID documents. This tool never uploads your photo anywhere: the crop, the name/date overlay and the compression all run as JavaScript inside your own browser tab, using the HTML5 Canvas the browser already has built in — the same technology every modern browser ships with, not a plugin or extension you have to trust separately. There is no "upload" step to watch for at all; the file only ever leaves your device the moment you press Download, and it goes straight into your own downloads folder, not to us. The moment you close the tab, nothing of your photo remains anywhere but your own device — no server-side copy to worry about, free tier or otherwise, and no account required to use any of it.

SSC Photo Resizer vs. Resizing by Hand in Paint or Photoshop

Paint, PhotoScape or Photoshop can technically get a photo to 20-50 KB and 3.5x4.5 cm — but you are doing the maths yourself: converting centimetres to pixels, watching the "Save As" quality slider, checking the resulting file size, and starting over if it is even 2 KB out of range. This tool removes all three steps at once — the crop box is pre-locked to the exact SSC shape, and the compression step searches automatically for the JPEG quality that lands inside your chosen KB target, so there is no trial and error and no risk of an oddly-shaped photo slipping through.