Drop your photo, get a 150×200 JPG that passes the Uttarakhand Public Service Commission portal’s own dimension check — the exact rule its upload form enforces, not a guide’s guess. Everything runs in your browser; nothing leaves your device.
Uttarakhand PSC applications — Upper PCS, Lower PCS, RO/ARO, Additional Private Secretary, Lecturer Cadre and the rest — are filled on the commission’s online portal (ukpsc.net.in, with each exam running at its own ukpscnet.in address). The upload rule is written into the form’s own validation code, and it is the same on every exam portal we checked: the photo must be JPG/JPEG only, at 150 pixels wide × 200 high — the form’s exact words when a file fails are “Only support JPG/JPEG” and “Only support dimensions 150W x 200H px”. The signature goes through the same gate at 150×100. In practice the check accepts a little tolerance around the stated size (roughly ±20 pixels on each side), but a file at the stated 150×200 passes every reading — this page is preset to exactly that. After you pick the file, the portal also sends the image for a server-side verification pass, so a file that merely looks right isn’t enough — the pixels have to be right.
This is the part that catches people: the portal measures the pixel dimensions of the file you choose, the moment you choose it. A phone photo is 3,000–4,000 pixels wide — some twenty times over the limit — and the form rejects it on the spot with the dimensions error. The portal’s little crop tool can position your face within an already-accepted file; it cannot shrink a full-size photo into acceptance. So the resize has to happen before you ever touch the form — drop your photo above, adjust the crop preview so your head sits centred, and download a JPG the form will take.
Most UKPSC resize tools do get 150×200 right — but not all, and the misses are expensive. One widely-read guide states the UKPSC photo as “3.5 × 4.5 cm at 200 DPI” — that arithmetic gives 276×354 pixels, roughly double the portal’s width limit, and the portal’s own check rejects it with the dimensions error. Others confidently publish a “30–50 KB” photo window and a “20–30 KB” signature window. We read the portal’s validation code and the commission’s full 49-page advertisement: no file-size rule appears in either. The pixel window and the JPG-only rule are real and enforced; the byte windows are folklore.
The preset is 150×200 pixels with a target of 48 KB and a floor of 31 KB. The floor deserves an honest explanation: the portal publishes no minimum, and a 150×200 JPEG at top quality is naturally around 10–20 KB — perfectly fine by every first-party rule. But since several tools insist on a 30 KB minimum and we can’t see inside the portal’s server-side check, PixFit pads the file up to 31 KB with a spec-valid JPEG comment (plain bytes the format allows; the image itself is untouched, and the comment says in plain text that it’s padding). The result satisfies the real spec and the rumoured one at once, at zero quality cost. If you’d rather not pad, clear the minimum from the target field — by everything the portal itself publishes, a smaller file is equally valid.
Sign in black or blue on white paper, photograph or scan it, and remember the format gate applies here too: JPG/JPEG only — a PNG export fails before size is even considered. The portal’s accepted signature size is 150×100 pixels (landscape). For the signature pass, type 150x100 into Exact size and 21kb-29kb into the target, and use the signature cleanup tool first if your scan has grey paper or shadows — it finds the ink, whitens the background, and hands back a clean JPEG.
Easy to mix up, expensive to get wrong: UKPSC is Uttarakhand’s state commission (this page — 150×200 px, JPG). UPPSC is Uttar Pradesh’s, with a completely different spec — centimetres at 200 DPI and real byte caps — covered on the UPPSC page. UPSC is the union commission (civil services) with its own 350–1000 px envelope, covered on the UPSC page. A photo sized for one will generally fail the other two.
Every number here was read from the application portal’s own published code and the commission’s advertisement PDF (which carries the official website, psc.uk.gov.in, in its letterhead) — no login, nothing submitted. A photo tied to your government-job application shouldn’t detour through a resizer’s server; PixFit runs entirely in your browser — the photo never leaves your device — and the re-encode strips EXIF metadata (including GPS) as a side effect. Applying to other commissions too? See UPPSC, KPSC, OPSC and the full verified table.
Spec source: the validation shipped in UKPSC’s own online application portals (ukpsc.net.in / ukpscnet.in exam portals, read July 2026 — identical on the Upper PCS and Lecturer Cadre forms) and the commission’s advertisement PDFs; official website psc.uk.gov.in. These numbers can change — if the upload screen disagrees, believe the portal.