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No portal in our table uses 1 MB
1 MB is a common size to search for, but none of the government or exam portals published on this site set a limit here — their published ceilings and floors land on other numbers. If a specific form asked you for 1 MB, treat that form's own instructions as the authority; this page is a general-purpose target, not a match for a named requirement.
What resolution is realistic at 1 MB
Compress any photo or scan to exactly 1 MB — free, and entirely in your browser.
The tool tries quality first: it re-encodes your photo at a range of JPEG quality settings, narrowing in with a binary search, and keeps the largest result that still lands at or under 1 MB. Cutting the pixel dimensions only happens when quality alone cannot reach the target, and the larger the target, the less often that is needed — at 1 MB an ordinary photo more often reaches the target on quality alone, with its original dimensions left untouched.
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Check your own notification. img-fix is not affiliated with any of the portals named above. Their figures were read from each portal's own published instructions, recorded with a source and access date on that portal's own page, and requirements change between cycles — the bulletin for the form you are actually completing is the authority.
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What resolution will I actually get at 1 MB?
The tool always tries quality first: it re-encodes your photo at a range of JPEG quality settings, narrowing in with a binary search, and keeps the largest result that still lands at or under 1 MB. Dimension reduction is only the fallback for when quality alone cannot reach the target, and the smaller the target, the more often that fallback is needed — at 1 MB an ordinary photo more often reaches the target on quality alone, with its original dimensions left untouched.
Is 1 MB an official requirement somewhere?
Not in our table. None of the government or exam portals published on this site set a limit at 1 MB — it is a common general-purpose target people search for, not a figure any of the specifications tracked here require. If a specific form asked you for 1 MB, its own instructions are the authority, not this page.
Is my file uploaded to a server?
No. Everything runs in your browser. This site is static files on a CDN with no upload endpoint at all, which is also why it is free — there is no bandwidth bill to pass on.