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No portal in our table uses 500 KB
500 KB 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 500 KB, 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 500 KB
Compress any photo or scan to exactly 500 KB — 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 500 KB. 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 500 KB 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 500 KB?
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 500 KB. 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 500 KB an ordinary photo more often reaches the target on quality alone, with its original dimensions left untouched.
Is 500 KB an official requirement somewhere?
Not in our table. None of the government or exam portals published on this site set a limit at 500 KB — 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 500 KB, 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.