Whether you're enrolling for a new Aadhaar, updating your photo, or uploading documents for e-KYC, the photograph has to meet a few simple requirements. Get them right and your submission goes through; get them wrong and it bounces back. Here's what you need.
What Aadhaar photos generally require
For online Aadhaar-related forms, you typically need a recent, front-facing colour photograph with a plain light background, your face clearly visible and centred, saved as a JPG and kept under a small file-size limit — commonly around 50KB. Printed enrolment uses a live-captured photo, but document and update uploads expect a digital file.
Common specifications
- Format: JPG (JPEG)
- Background: plain, light colour, evenly lit
- Composition: head and shoulders, face centred and looking straight ahead
- File size: usually under ~50KB for online uploads
How to prepare your photo
Use our Aadhaar Photo Resize tool to crop your picture to a clean passport-style format and compress it under the required size in one step. If your form also asks for a signature, the Signature Resize to 20KB tool handles that. Everything runs privately in your browser — your photo is never stored.
Always verify the current requirement
Exact pixel dimensions and file-size limits can differ between portals and change over time. Treat the values above as common references and confirm the precise requirement on the official UIDAI or service-provider page before you submit.