Drop your photo, get a JPEG between 10 and 100 KB at the CTET passport shape — the format CBSE’s bulletin specifies for the online application. Signature works the same way (3–30 KB). Nothing is uploaded; it all runs in your browser.
The CTET information bulletin (CBSE) specifies both uploads precisely: the photograph as a JPG/JPEG between 10 KB and 100 KB at 3.5 cm wide × 4.5 cm high, and the signature as a JPG/JPEG between 3 KB and 30 KB at 3.5 cm long × 1.5 cm high. Both uploads are mandatory. This page is preset for the photo — drop it, download the result, upload it to the form. For the signature, type 350x150 into Exact size and 3-30kb into Target, and run your signature scan through the same way.
Officially there are no pixel dimensions for CTET — the bulletin gives centimetres only. The 350×450 px photo / 350×150 px signature figures you see on resizer sites (including the preset on this page) are the common interpretation of those cm boxes at roughly 250 DPI, and they produce files that sit comfortably inside the KB windows. What upload validation actually checks is the file type, the kilobytes, and roughly the shape — so any scan in the right aspect ratio (7:9 portrait for the photo, a wide 7:3 strip for the signature) inside the size window will do. If a guide tells you CTET wants 200×230 px at 20–50 KB, it has pasted in the IBPS bank-exam format; if it says the photo can be up to 200 KB, that's the NEET/JEE window — CTET's own bulletin says 100 KB.
The bulletin is explicit that the uploaded photograph will be matched with the actual candidate appearing in the examination — invigilators compare the admit-card photo against the person at the desk. An old or heavily retouched photo creates exactly the inconvenience the bulletin warns about. Scan or shoot a latest photo, keep the face clearly visible, and let PixFit handle only the file plumbing: it center-crops to the exact shape, finds the best JPEG quality that fits the window, and strips EXIF/GPS metadata by re-encoding. iPhone HEIC can be dropped straight in — the JPEG that comes out is what you upload.
Unlike the IBPS and Railway RRB formats — whose high floors force spec-valid padding — CTET's floors (10 KB photo, 3 KB signature) are low enough that an ordinary scan at the right dimensions lands inside the window naturally. If your signature somehow encodes under 3 KB, PixFit pads it to the floor with a plain JPEG comment segment; but with a 350×150 scan of real handwriting that almost never happens.
Checked against the CTET–September 2026 information bulletin (published on ctet.nic.in, read 1 August 2026): the numbers above are restated verbatim — photo JPG/JPEG 10–100 KB at 3.5 × 4.5 cm, signature 3–30 KB at 3.5 × 1.5 cm. That cycle's application window ran 11 May – 10 June 2026 and the correction window closed 18 June, so if you're reading this before the exam on Sunday 6 September 2026 your uploads are already locked — this page will be waiting for the next cycle's window, and the spec has now been identical across five straight bulletins (Jul 2024, Dec 2024, Feb 2026, Sep 2026 among them).
CTET runs twice a year and every cycle publishes a fresh bulletin at ctet.nic.in; that document and the form's own error messages win over any guide, this page included. Applying to other teaching or government exams too? The CUET UG, NEET and IBPS pages cover those formats.