Drop your photo, get a 150×200 JPG under 30 Kb — the Thulasi portal’s published spec for Kerala PSC One Time Registration — with the mandatory name-and-date strip printed on it. Everything runs in your browser; nothing leaves your device.
Every Kerala Public Service Commission application runs through one profile on the Thulasi portal (thulasi.psc.kerala.gov.in), and the portal states its upload spec right on the login page, before you ever sign in. Verbatim: the photograph must be JPG, 150 pixels wide by 200 pixels high, maximum 30 Kb; the signature — scanned from blue or black ink on good-quality white paper — must be 150×100 pixels, also JPG, maximum 30 Kb. This page has PixFit preset to 150×200 at a 29 KB target — 29,696 bytes, under “30 Kb” whichever way the server counts kilobytes. Drop your photo, adjust the crop, download, upload.
Kerala PSC’s photo rule is unique among big Indian portals: “your name and date of photo taken must be inscripted (in two lines) in black color text with white rectangular background at the bottom of the photograph.” Studio photos from Kerala come with this strip already printed; a phone photo doesn’t have it — and that’s the usual rejection. PixFit now draws it for you: fill in the Print on photo fields in the options bar (line one: your name; line two: the date the photo was taken) and the strip — black text, white background, bottom of the photo, two lines — is rendered onto the output before it’s fitted to the byte target. One pass, correct size, strip included. Be honest with the date: it’s meant to document when the photo was taken, and the commission’s instructions make the uploaded photo valid for 10 years from that date. No official date format is published — the two-line layout is the whole stated format; DD-MM-YYYY is the convention studios use.
The instructions PDF linked beside the spec (in Malayalam) adds the rejection list: face straight-on, centered, with face and shoulders clearly visible; eyes clearly visible; white or light background; colour or black-and-white both accepted. Not acceptable: goggles, caps (head-covering worn as part of religious practice is explicitly exempted), side-view shots, unclear faces. A recent, front-facing, well-lit head-and-shoulders shot passes; the 10-year validity is a good reason to take one properly rather than crop something old.
Thulasi ships its own Resize Photograph/Signature tool, and its stated input limit is, verbatim, “JPG format, upto 1 MB, bigger than 150 × 200”. A phone photo is 3–8 MB — the official resizer won’t take it until you’ve compressed it somewhere else first. PixFit goes straight from the original (HEIC included) to a portal-ready 150×200 JPG under 30 Kb, inscription and all, so the two-tool shuffle never starts.
The signature spec is 150×100 pixels — wide and short, 3:2. A long-standing registration guide that still ranks well states it as 150×200, the same dimensions as the photo: follow that and your signature uploads tall and squashed, or gets rejected outright. The portal’s number is 150×100; this page’s preset handles the photo — for the signature pass, change the Exact size field to 150x100 and keep the same 29 KB target. Sign with blue or black ink on white paper, photograph it, and tick Signature photo cleanup to have the ink found, trimmed and put on pure white automatically — or draw one on the signature pad.
Thulasi is a One Time Registration system: the profile — and the photo in it — carries across every notification you apply to, year after year, and Kerala PSC publishes notifications year-round. Fixing the photo properly once (right size, right strip, honest date) is the difference between a ten-year profile and a rejection every application season.
Registration and applications happen at thulasi.psc.kerala.gov.in; notifications and the official photo instructions live at keralapsc.gov.in. A photo tied to your government profile — with your name and a date printed on it — has no business passing through a resizer’s server, and most Kerala PSC photo tools are exactly that: server-side uploads. PixFit runs entirely in your browser — the photo, the name you type, the date: none of it leaves your device, and the typed text isn’t even saved in browser storage. The re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) as a side effect. Applying to central-government exams too? The full verified table covers UPSC, SSC, IBPS and sixty more.
Spec source: the Thulasi portal’s own login page (photo and signature specification, public, no login needed) and Kerala PSC’s photo-instructions PDF linked from it, both read July 2026. These numbers have been stable for years but can change — if the upload screen disagrees, believe the portal.