Drop your CLAT photograph, get a clean 200×230 JPEG under 50 KB — passes every published reading, and doubles as an easy pre-crop for the portal’s own crop box. iPhone HEIC becomes JPEG here too. Nothing is uploaded.
The CLAT application (consortiumofnlus.ac.in — CLAT 2027 registration opens August 3, 2026, closes October 31, exam December 6) asks for a recent front-facing, passport-style photograph against a plain, light background and a signature in black or blue on white paper, both in “Jpeg/png format” per the form's own help text. Neither needs attestation. Here's the part the prep guides don't tell you: the portal crops both images itself. Its upload flow opens a crop box (with rotate buttons and Ctrl+scroll zoom), and whatever you frame is exported at exactly 200×230 pixels for the photo and exactly 140×60 for the signature, re-encoded by the portal before upload. That comes from the application page's own published code, not from a guide.
Six widely-read CLAT guides print the same table: photograph 20–50 KB, signature 10–20 KB, JPG/JPEG only. That's the window another exam family (IBPS-style bank forms) really does enforce, pasted into CLAT articles — the CLAT portal's upload flow contains no file-size check at all, and its own help text allows PNG. The pixel figures the guides print (200×230 and 140×60) are real, but they're the size the portal's crop box outputs on its own, not something you must pre-produce. So don't burn an evening chasing 43 KB: a clear, well-lit source photo is what matters, because you'll frame it in the portal's crop box either way. As always, if the live form for your cycle shows an error stating limits, the portal wins — and this page's numbers were read from the CLAT 2026 application code, so treat the next cycle's form as the authority.
iPhone HEIC: the portal's file picker checks the file extension — gif, png, jpg, jpeg or ico — so an iPhone HEIC photo is refused before the crop box ever opens. Drop it here instead: it's decoded in your browser and comes out a JPEG the portal accepts. Framing control: the preset gives you a 200×230 crop with a draggable preview, so if you'd rather compose the crop calmly here than in the portal's small widget, upload the pre-cropped result and just zoom it to fit. WhatsApp-mangled files: if all you have is a photo a messaging app recompressed, no resize fixes the softness — get the original (“document” mode) or retake it against a plain wall.
The official instructions are strict where the guides are vague: “All documents/certificates should be uploaded in pdf format only”, and each certificate slot in the form (SC/ST/OBC category, PwD, BPL) says “Size should be less than 1.5MB”. A phone photo of a paper certificate is a JPEG, and often a 4 MB one — both problems this site solves in one pass: drop the photo, pick PDF as the output format, set the target under 1500kb, and you get a one-page PDF at a guaranteed size. A two-sided or multi-page certificate becomes one file with Combine into one PDF, and an existing oversized PDF can be recompressed to fit — all of it in your browser.
These uploads identify you — face, signature and category documents tied to your application. PixFit runs entirely in your browser: nothing you drop here is uploaded to any server, and re-encoding strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) from phone photos as a side effect. There's no minimum file size in the real spec, so nothing needs padding — despite what the recycled tables say. The current notification and the live form at consortiumofnlus.ac.in are the authority if anything here disagrees. Applying to management exams too? See the CAT, XAT and SNAP pages.