How to Resize a PAN Card Photo for UTI

If your PAN application is on the UTIITSL portal, the photo and signature requirements are specific enough that a normal phone photo almost never fits without resizing first. Here's the exact spec and how to hit it.

The UTI photo spec

UTIITSL asks for a photo that's 213×213 pixels, a perfect square, at 300 DPI, kept under roughly 30KB. It should be a recent, front-facing photo against a plain white background, saved as JPEG.

The UTI signature spec

The signature should be 400×200 pixels at 600 DPI. Sign in black or blue ink on plain white paper, photograph or scan it in good light, and crop tightly around just the signature — extra white space around it eats into a small canvas.

Step by step

1. Take or choose your photo. Front-facing, plain background, good even lighting, no glare on glasses.

2. Open the UTI resizer. The dimensions (213×213, 400×200) and file-size targets are already set as defaults.

3. Upload, download, and check the file size shown. The tool compresses automatically toward the KB limit — if it lands above target, try a simpler, less busy source photo, since compression has more to work with on a plain background.

4. Upload both files to the UTIITSL form. Double-check the current size limit shown on the form itself, since portals do revise these figures occasionally.

Common mistakes on this portal

The most frequent one is using NSDL's numbers by mistake — the two portals genuinely ask for different pixel dimensions, not just different branding. If you're not sure which portal you're on, see our NSDL vs UTI guide. The second most common issue is a photo that passes the dimension check but is still over the file-size cap, since resizing and compressing are two separate steps.