Drop your photo, get a square JPG that meets CEM’s NMAT digital photo spec — square aspect ratio, at least 600×600 px, at most 2 MB. Compression and cropping happen in your browser; the photo never leaves your device.
CEM's online registration system for the Philippine NMAT (National Medical Admission Test) accepts one photo format: JPG, square (pixel height equal to width), at least 600×600 pixels, at most 2 MB — a 2″×2″ colored photo on a white background. This page is preset to a 1200×1200 square under 2 MB: comfortably above the 600-pixel minimum, so the photo stays sharp on your NMAT forms and Examinee Report Form, where it's printed. Any square size from 600×600 up passes. If your source photo is smaller than 1200×1200, don't upscale — type 600x600 into Exact size instead (PixFit warns you rather than silently inventing pixels). Non-square photos are cropped to square — drag the crop preview so your face ends up centered.
CEM's spec is explicit: the digital photo must not be a scanned photo of any existing valid ID. Rescaling your driver's license or passport photo page doesn't just risk rejection on quality — it's ruled out by name. Take a fresh, passport-style photo: frontal, full face toward the camera, only face and shoulders in frame, white background. The 2 MB ceiling is generous — a phone photo cropped square lands well under it at maximum quality, so expect PixFit to report a high quality setting with no visible loss.
Format is the easy half. CEM also requires that the photo was taken within one year of submitting your application, shows natural skin tone, has both ears visible as much as possible, and was taken without eyeglasses or colored contact lenses and without heavy or theatrical makeup — and it must match how you'll look on test day (with or without the beard). PixFit fixes pixels and bytes; it can't judge any of that. If the file is corrupted or the photo unacceptable, CEM notifies you by email — which means delays, so check your result against the official specifications page before uploading.
The portal takes JPG only. An iPhone HEIC or a PNG can be dropped straight in — PixFit decodes it in your browser and outputs a JPG. Everything runs locally: a photo that will sit on your medical-school admission file shouldn't take a detour through a random resizer's server, and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including the GPS position of wherever it was taken) as a side effect.
This page covers the Philippine NMAT run by CEM. India's NMAT by GMAC is a different exam whose registration on mba.com publishes no precise pixel-or-KB photo spec (guides say only “under 1–2 MB”) — if that's you, a passport-shape crop at high quality passes in practice, and the portal's own error messages are the authority. For other Indian MBA exams see the CAT, XAT and SNAP pages.