Crops to APPSC's 3.5 × 4.5 cm under 50 KB — and prints your name and the date onto the photograph, which APPSC requires and no other resizer does.
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If your studio already printed the name and date on the photo, untick this and crop so that strip stays inside the frame.
| Dimensions | 3.5 cm × 4.5 cm |
|---|---|
| File size | 50 KB — no minimum is stated |
| Printed on the photo | Name of the candidate and the date the photograph was taken |
| Colour | Colour or black and white, with clear contrast |
| Not allowed | Cap, goggles, Polaroid photographs |
| Allowed | Spectacles |
APPSC says it twice, in the same block of its OTPR form:
This is not a formatting nicety. It is a property of the image, and no amount of resizing produces it. Photo studios across Andhra Pradesh print this strip as a matter of course for exam photographs — but if you are working from a phone photo, or a studio file that came without it, the requirement is unmet and resizing will not tell you.
So this tool adds it: type your name, pick the date the photograph was taken, and it is printed into a strip inside the 3.5 × 4.5 cm frame. If your studio already printed it, switch the option off and crop so their strip stays inside the frame.
We should be straight with you about one thing: APPSC says “printed on it” and does not say whether it means printed by a studio or rendered into the image. A digitally imprinted strip looks the same in the uploaded file. If your notification says anything more specific, follow the notification.
APPSC's wording is “in colour or b/w (but clear contrast)”. One popular resizer tells APPSC applicants that colour photography is mandatory and that black and white, monochrome or greyscale photos will not be accepted. That is not what APPSC wrote. Colour is the sensible default, but a clear black and white photograph is within the rule.
The OTPR manual gives centimetres, a 50 KB ceiling, and nothing further — no pixel dimensions, no DPI, no file format. 3.5 × 4.5 cm is 276 × 354 pixels at 200 DPI and 413 × 531 at 300; both are the size APPSC asked for.
The figure in circulation is 200 × 230, which is the IBPS and SBI banking template — the same two numbers we have now found copied onto four different state commissions. Its ratio is 0.87. APPSC's 3.5 × 4.5 cm is 0.78. It is not the right shape for the photograph APPSC asked for.
Since the DPI is unstated we work down from 300 and let the 50 KB ceiling settle it, then report the pixel size actually produced.
Two commissions use the abbreviation APPSC. This page is Andhra Pradesh PSC, at psc.ap.gov.in. Arunachal Pradesh PSC owns appsc.gov.in and has a completely different specification — photograph 40–100 KB, signature 20–50 KB in black pen, documents 100–300 KB, and no dimensions published at all. Nothing here applies there.
Same application, different file. Each has its own limits — they are not interchangeable.
3.5 cm by 4.5 cm and 50 KB in size, and it must carry the candidate's name and the date on which the photograph was taken, printed on it. That last part is APPSC's own wording and it is the requirement almost every guide leaves out.
Yes. APPSC's OTPR form states it twice in the same block: the photograph should be in colour or black and white with the name of the candidate and the date of taking the photograph printed on it, and again, the 50 KB, 3.5 by 4.5 cm photograph should have the name of the candidate and the date on which the photograph is taken printed on it. Studios in Andhra Pradesh routinely print this strip for exam photos. This tool can add it for you if yours did not.
Yes, provided the contrast is clear. APPSC's wording is 'in colour or b/w (but clear contrast)'. This is unusual - most commissions demand colour, and at least one resizer site tells APPSC applicants that colour photography is mandatory and monochrome will not be accepted. APPSC's own instructions say otherwise.
APPSC does not state one. Its manual gives centimetres and a 50 KB ceiling and nothing else - no pixels, no DPI, no format. 3.5 by 4.5 cm is 276 by 354 pixels at 200 DPI and 413 by 531 at 300. The widely quoted 200 by 230 figure is the IBPS and SBI banking template and is not even the right shape: its ratio is 0.87, while 3.5 by 4.5 cm is 0.78.
Caps and goggles are not allowed. Spectacles are allowed. Polaroid photographs are explicitly not acceptable. Those are APPSC's words, not ours.
No. APPSC says the signature 'shall be scanned 30KB in size and [3.5cmx1.5cm] in dimension separately and uploaded here'. Two separate uploads. They are only shown together, under the heading 'Photograph with Signature', on the printed OTPR receipt. Use our APPSC signature page for that file.
No. APPSC states 50 KB for the photograph and 30 KB for the signature, with no floor. This tool does not pad the file to hit an invented minimum.
No. The crop, the name and date imprint and the compression all run in your browser on your own device. Your photograph is never transmitted.
No. APPSC's own FAQ answers this directly: scan only the area containing the photograph and signature, not the complete page. They are then uploaded as two separate files.
Yes. Spectacles are explicitly permitted. Caps and goggles are not, and Polaroid photographs are not accepted.
One Time Profile Registration produces a reference ID beginning with AP, which then becomes your login. The photograph and signature are uploaded into that profile, under Demographic Details, rather than into each individual application.
Andhra Pradesh, at psc.ap.gov.in. Arunachal Pradesh PSC uses the same abbreviation and owns appsc.gov.in, and its specification is entirely different — a 40 to 100 KB photograph with no dimensions stated. Do not mix the two.
Requirements on this page are quoted from the One Time Profile Registration user manual published by the Andhra Pradesh Public Service Commission, corroborated against its official FAQ. APPSC states centimetres and a KB ceiling; it states no pixel size, no DPI, no file format and no minimum.
The manual carries no version number and its screens are dated July 2024, so check the notification you are applying under. This is Andhra Pradesh PSC (psc.ap.gov.in), not Arunachal Pradesh PSC (appsc.gov.in), which uses the same abbreviation and a different specification. We are not affiliated with either commission.