Drop your photograph, get a 200×230 px JPEG between 20 and 50 KB — the RBI Grade B upload format, minimum included. Nothing is uploaded; it all runs in your browser.
The Reserve Bank of India Services Board recruits Officers in Grade ‘B’ (Direct Recruit) in the General, DEPR and DSIM cadres through an annual advertisement on opportunities.rbi.org.in — the 2026 cycle (Advt No. RBISB/DA/01/2026-27, dated April 29, 2026) offered 60 posts and closed on May 20. The application form takes four image uploads, specified in the advertisement’s own Appendix-I:
Photograph: a recent passport-size colour picture (4.5×3.5 cm scan) against a light-coloured, preferably white background, 200×230 pixels (preferred), JPG/JPEG, 20kb–50kb — this page is preset to exactly that, minimum included. Glasses are fine if there are no reflections and your eyes are clearly visible; caps, hats and dark glasses are not acceptable (religious headwear is allowed if it doesn’t cover the face). Signature: 140×60 pixels (preferred), 10kb–20kb, signed with black ink — capital-letter signatures are not accepted, and if your signature at the examination doesn’t match the upload, you are disqualified. Left thumb impression: black or blue ink on white paper, 20kb–50kb (right thumb if you don’t have a left one, and it must not be smudged). Handwritten declaration: black ink on white paper, in English, in your own handwriting, 50kb–100kb — the exact sentence to copy is printed in Appendix-I, and a declaration written by anyone else or in any other language is rejected.
RBI provides a two-day edit window after the closing date — but read what it actually covers: exam centre, medium of exam, father’s name, mother’s name, and 10th/12th percentage. Five fields. The photograph, signature, thumb impression and handwritten declaration are not on the list — the advertisement adds that after the edit window closes, no change/modification/correction will be allowed under any circumstances. So unlike portals that let you swap a blurry photo later, here the uploads are frozen the moment you submit. That is the real reason to get the byte windows and crop right the first time — and if you do file multiple applications, note that only the last complete application (highest RID) counts, and it must have photograph, signature, thumb impression, handwriting declaration and fee all complete; fees paid on an earlier RID are not transferred.
The only pixel figures in RBI’s Appendix-I are 200×230 for the photo and 140×60 for the signature. For the thumb impression and handwritten declaration it legislates bytes only — there is no 240×240 thumb and no 800×400 declaration anywhere in the advertisement or its appendix (we searched the full text of both). Those are the IBPS-platform standard figures that SEBI, SIDBI and IRDAI do print — and at least one resizer site has imported them wholesale into an “RBI Grade B specification” page, while other guides omit the thumb and declaration uploads entirely and cover only the photo and signature. The IBPS-standard shapes are sensible and very likely accepted (RBI runs the same style of form) — but what RBI actually checks is the bytes. The IBPS thumb & declaration page has the family-standard presets and scanning advice; RBI’s byte windows are the same (20–50 kb thumb, 50–100 kb declaration).
Besides the uploaded file, the form requires a live photograph — captured by webcam, or by scanning a QR code and shooting on your phone — against a light-coloured background, passport-style, looking straight at the camera; small-size photos, coloured glasses and caps are called out as don’ts. Appendix-I’s scanning advice: minimum 200 dpi, true colour, crop to the edge of the document, save as JPG/JPEG — and its suggested resize tools are MS Paint and MS Office Picture Manager, with a manual check-and-repeat loop until the file lands in the window. PixFit does the same job in one pass, in your browser: it binary-searches the JPEG quality to land inside 20–50 kb at 200×230, pads up to the 20 kb floor with a spec-valid JPEG comment if your photo encodes under it, and writes the 200 dpi label into the file.
In the 2026 cycle, applications ran April 29 – May 20, 2026, with Phase-I (General) on June 13 and Phase-II on July 25; the 60 posts split 40 General / 10 DEPR / 10 DSIM. The fee is ₹850 + 18% GST for GEN/OBC/EWS candidates and ₹100 + GST (intimation charges only) for SC/ST/PwBD; RBI staff candidates pay nil. Selected officers start at a basic pay of ₹78,450 a month. The cycle is complete — this page is here for the next one, which RBI runs annually; the advertisement for the cycle you apply in, on opportunities.rbi.org.in, is the authority. The matching signature preset and the near-identical SEBI, SIDBI, IRDAI, PFRDA and NHB sets have their own pages. Everything here runs in your browser — your photo, signature, thumb print and handwriting never leave your device.
Spec source: RBI’s own Advt No. RBISB/DA/01/2026-27 (dated April 29, 2026) and its Appendix-I — “guidelines for filling online application form” (DEPR29042026_A1.pdf) — on opportunities.rbi.org.in / rbidocs.rbi.org.in, both read August 2026. Photo 200×230 px 20kb–50kb; signature 140×60 px 10kb–20kb; left thumb 20kb–50kb and handwritten declaration 50kb–100kb, neither with a stated pixel size. The advertisement for the cycle you apply in — and the upload screen itself — win over this page.