Drop your photo, get a 630×810 pixel JPEG under 250 KB — the Global Passport Seva format for Indian passport applications filed at embassies and consulates abroad. Cropping and resizing happen in your browser; the photo never leaves your device.
Indian passport applications filed abroad — renewals and fresh applications through embassies, consulates and their outsourced service providers — go through the Global Passport Seva portal (GPSP, rolled out worldwide as Version 2.0 through late 2025), and the portal takes two uploads this page covers: a photograph of exactly 630×810 pixels, in colour, as a JPEG under 250 KB, against a white background, with the face taking up 80–85% of the frame; and a scanned signature, cropped to a rectangle, not exceeding 100 KB. This page is preset to the photo spec: drop your photo, download the 630×810 result, upload it to the portal. These numbers are published identically by Indian missions across countries — Jeddah, Kuala Lumpur, Dublin, Budapest, Toronto and others carry the same guideline sheet.
The dimension looks arbitrary until you divide: 630/810 is exactly 35/45 — the classic Indian passport-photo print size, expressed at 180 pixels per centimetre. So a photo framed like a normal passport photo (head centred, top of shoulders visible) crops into it naturally. A phone portrait is taller than 7:9, so PixFit center-crops some top and bottom; if your framing is tight, drag the crop preview so the full head, from top of hair to bottom of chin, survives the crop — the guidelines want the whole head plus the top of the shoulders in frame.
The service provider's own instruction sheet carries a rule most applicants find out the hard way: photo and signature uploads are capped at 12 attempts combined, after which the system blocks further uploads. That's generous if your files are right and brutal if you're guessing — each “maybe this one works” retry burns an attempt. Getting the file to exactly 630×810 and under 250 KB before the first attempt is the whole game, and that's the one part a file tool can guarantee.
The guidelines say photos should be unaltered by computer software — and the same provider's instructions then walk you through cropping and resizing the photo to 630×810 in an image editor. There's no contradiction: what's prohibited is changing how you look — filters, retouching, beauty modes, AI enhancement, red-eye paint-outs. Resizing, cropping and re-encoding are expected plumbing. PixFit only does the plumbing: it never touches skin tones, sharpness or facial features, and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including the GPS position of wherever the photo was taken) as a side effect — a photo tied to your passport application shouldn't detour through a random resizer's server, which is why everything here runs in your browser.
For the signature, the published rule is short: sign on white paper with a black or blue pen, scan it, crop to just the signature (not the whole page), and keep the file at or under 100 KB. No official pixel dimensions exist — a guide quoting exact signature pixels for GPSP is inventing them. A tight rectangular crop of a real signature scan almost always lands under 100 KB already; if your scanner produced a monster, clear the Exact size field above, type 100kb into Target, and run the scan through.
If you're applying within India on passportindia.gov.in, stop — you don't need this page or any resizer. At Passport Seva Kendras and Post Office PSKs the official instruction booklet is explicit: a photograph is not required with the application — your photo and biometrics are captured live at the kendra. The paper route through District Passport Cells takes a pasted print (4.5×3.5 cm on photo paper), not a digital upload. The 630×810 upload spec belongs to the abroad flow only — if a site told you to resize a photo for a domestic PSK appointment, it was selling you a fix for a requirement that doesn't exist.
Everything in the ICAO composition list is judged by consular staff, not by pixel counts: looking directly at the camera, natural skin tones and expression, eyes open and visible with no hair across them, no shadows on face or background, no red-eye, mouth closed, no head tilt, glasses off to avoid reflections, and head coverings only for religious reasons with the face fully visible from chin to forehead with both edges shown. Take the photo from about 1.5 metres away — too-close phone shots distort. Apply at mportal.passportindia.gov.in/gpsp, and check your own mission's page (for example the Embassy in Dublin's guidelines) before you submit — the portal and your mission win over any guide, this page included. Travelling to India instead? The India e-Visa photo is a different (square) spec. See also the US passport renewal and UK passport pages.