Many Indian exam and recruitment forms ask for a signature image of 140 × 60 pixels. A phone photo of your signature is usually thousands of pixels wide — portals reject it for size even when the signature looks fine. Resize once, keep the JPG, and reuse it across applications that share the same spec.
Imgician’s signature tool runs in your browser; nothing is uploaded to our servers for processing. Always confirm the pixel size in that year’s notice if it differs.
Capture a clean signature
- Use white, unlined paper.
- Sign with a dark blue or black pen (medium thickness).
- Photograph from directly above in even light — no shadows across the ink.
- Avoid filters; keep the background white.
If the scan is noisy, portals sometimes flag it as “not clear” even at the right pixel size.
Steps to resize to 140×60
- Optional but recommended: crop tightly around the signature so there’s little empty margin.
- Open Resize signature to 140×60 pixels.
- Upload the cropped scan.
- Cast the spell and download.
- If the portal needs a tiny file, compress to 20KB or 50KB.
Pair with the exam photo
Most forms want photo + signature:
| File | Common size | Tool |
|---|---|---|
| Photo | 3.5 × 4.5 cm or 200×230 px | SSC · Passport · 200×230 |
| Signature | 140 × 60 px | 140×60 |
Walkthroughs: SSC exam photo · Job & exam compress guide
Also: UPSC · Banking exams
Why signatures get rejected
| Issue | Fix |
|---|---|
| Wrong dimensions | Re-resize to 140×60 (or the notice values) |
| File too large | Compress after resize |
| Faint / gray signature | Darker pen; better lighting; higher contrast scan |
| Lined paper / shadows | Reshoot on plain white |
| HEIC format | HEIC to JPG |
| Signature cut off | Crop with more margin, then resize |
Tips
- Keep a master JPG of the 140×60 file in a folder named for the exam year.
- Don’t repeatedly WhatsApp the signature to yourself — re-encoding can soften edges.
- If the notice asks for a different pixel size, use resize in pixels with custom width/height.
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