Haryana runs two application portals with different upload rules. Pick yours and this sizes your photograph into that portal's permitted band.
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This is the part almost nobody tells you. HPSC does not run one application system, it runs two, and they ask for different things. The specification you need depends on which one the advertisement sends you to.
| regn.hpsc.gov.in | apply.registernow.in/HPSC/ | |
|---|---|---|
| Photograph size | less than 500 KB | max 200 KB |
| Photograph dimensions | 132×170 to 160×204 px | 100×100 to 150×150 px |
| Signature size | less than 500 KB | max 50 KB |
| Signature dimensions | 132×57 to 160×68 px | 50×50 to 150×150 px |
| Formats | JPG, JPEG, PNG | JPG, JPEG, PNG |
A file built for one is not necessarily valid on the other. A 500 KB signature is fine on the registration portal and ten times over the limit on the other; a 160 px-wide photograph is required to be at least 132 on one and may be as small as 100 on the other. Check the link the advertisement actually gave you before you prepare anything — the switch above sets this tool to match.
The registration portal is the one used for Haryana Civil Services (Executive Branch), HCS (Judicial Branch) and the Lecturer advertisements we checked. Profile registration there is mandatory before you can apply, and it is done with a PPP ID, an Aadhaar number or a mobile number — with the caution that a name or date of birth arriving from the PPP database is not editable afterwards.
Most commissions give one number. Kerala wants exactly 150 × 200. Odisha wants exactly 150 × 200. Karnataka publishes no dimensions at all. HPSC does something different again: it gives a band, and anything inside it is acceptable.
That is more forgiving than it looks, and it is why you may have seen several different “HPSC sizes” quoted that were all technically fine. One widely published page gives 138 × 177 for the photograph and 138 × 59 for the signature. Both of those sit inside the registration portal's ranges, so the dimensions are legal — they are simply presented as the required size when the portal accepts a whole band, and the file-size limits published alongside them match neither system.
This tool targets the largest dimensions the band allows, because within a permitted range more pixels means more detail and there is no cost to it. The exact output size is shown with the result so you can check it against the band yourself.
Worth stating plainly, because other pages will tell you otherwise. The upload instructions on both HPSC portals cover three things: the accepted formats, the file size ceiling, and the dimension band. They do not state a background colour. They do not state how recent the photograph must be. They do not say whether it should be colour or black and white, and they do not ask for a name or a date printed on it.
We have the upload blocks and not the full instructions that may accompany an individual advertisement, so this is what we can stand behind rather than everything HPSC might require. Read the advertisement you are applying under — and if it adds a rule, follow the advertisement.
HPSC is the Haryana Public Service Commission, at hpsc.gov.in. HPPSC, one letter longer, is the Himachal Pradesh Public Service Commission at hppsc.hp.gov.in. They are different commissions in different states and nothing on this page applies to Himachal.
Himachal's own published FAQ asks for a photograph of 110 pixels wide by 140 high and a signature of 140 wide by 110 high, neither exceeding 40 KB, in .jpg, with the signature in black ink pen on white paper, and accepts black-and-white or colour photographs. Haryana states none of that and gives entirely different dimensions. If you have been handed a 40 KB figure for “HPSC”, you have Himachal's rule.
Within Haryana, HPSC is also not HSSC, the Haryana Staff Selection Commission, which recruits separately through its own portal.
Same application, different file. Each has its own limits — they are not interchangeable.
It depends which of HPSC's two application systems your advertisement uses. On the registration portal at regn.hpsc.gov.in the photograph must be under 500 KB with dimensions anywhere from 132 x 170 to 160 x 204 pixels. On apply.registernow.in/HPSC it must be under 200 KB with dimensions from 100 x 100 to 150 x 150 pixels. Both accept JPG, JPEG and PNG.
Because HPSC runs two application systems, and both are live. Which one you meet depends on the advertisement you are applying under - the registration portal covers Haryana Civil Services (Executive Branch), HCS (Judicial Branch) and the Lecturer advertisements we checked, and other advertisements go through the second system. Follow the link in your advertisement and see where it lands before preparing anything.
It is a legal size on the registration portal, but it is not the only one. That portal accepts any dimensions between 132 x 170 and 160 x 204, so 138 x 177 sits comfortably inside the band. Pages that publish it as the required size are describing one valid point in a range as though it were the whole rule, and the file-size limits usually published with it match neither of HPSC's systems.
Neither system states one. Both give a ceiling only - 500 KB on the registration portal, 200 KB on the other - so nothing here is padded. On the registration portal in particular the ceiling is so generous for an image of at most 160 x 204 pixels that file size is effectively never the constraint; the dimensions are.
Yes. Both systems list JPG, JPEG and PNG. This tool outputs JPEG because it compresses photographs far better and both ceilings are comfortable, but a PNG within the limits is acceptable to the portal.
We do not know, and we are not going to guess. The upload instructions on both portals cover format, file size and dimensions and stop there. Neither states a background colour, a recency rule, or whether a name or date should appear on the photograph. The advertisement you are applying under may add requirements - read it.
No. HPSC is Haryana; HPPSC is Himachal Pradesh, at hppsc.hp.gov.in. Himachal asks for a 110 by 140 pixel photograph under 40 KB in .jpg, which is nothing like either Haryana specification. HPSC is also not HSSC, the Haryana Staff Selection Commission.
No. The crop and the compression run in your browser on your own device. Your photograph is never transmitted.
Requirements on this page are quoted from the upload instructions published on the Haryana Public Service Commission’s own application portals: regn.hpsc.gov.in — identical wording on the HCS Executive, HCS Judicial and Lecturer registration pages — and apply.registernow.in/HPSC. Commission site: hpsc.gov.in. Both portals state a format list, a file-size ceiling and a dimension range; neither states a minimum file size, a DPI, a background colour or an ink colour.
Those pages are advertisement-specific and carry no version or date, and we have their upload instructions only — not the fuller instructions that may accompany an individual advertisement — so check the advertisement you are applying under for anything not covered above. This is Haryana PSC. HPPSC is the Himachal Pradesh commission and publishes a completely different specification; HSSC is a separate Haryana body. We are not affiliated with any of them.