How To Edit Photos For Government Online Examination Form – 5 Best Photo Editing Software

As most of the online applications for government exams in India ask for scanned photograph and signature, where students consider this a daunting task. Isn’t it? These novice computer users, now need not to worry about it. Nowadays photo editing becomes as simple as the swing ride. In this article, we help you with the 5 best photo editing software to edit photos for Government Online examinations form.

Take a look to understand the Format, Size, and Dimension Of Signature and Photograph.

• The scanned photograph and Signature should be in jpg/jpeg format only.
• The image size must be greater than 4 kb and less than 40 kb.
• The size of the signature image must be greater than 1 kb and less than 30 kb.
• The dimension of photograph image should be 3.5 cm(width) x 4.5 cm(Height) only.
• The dimension of signature image should be 3.5 cm(length) x 1.5 cm(Height) only.

The Photograph image and the signature image are required to follow the given size limits so that the webserver space will not be exhausted. If candidates are allowed to upload the images of any size, it will result in the jamming of the server (you probably heard about of server down situation, when lakhs or even crores of candidates apply for government exams.

Image sizes in terms of sizes in cm, inches and pixels chart:

Note* Passport photos must follow specific DPI (dots per inches) specification i.e 3.5 cm x 4.5 cm at 100 DPI.

Let’s begin, if you are familiar with Adobe Photoshop that’s great! Otherwise, go through the following tools which you can use for basic photo editing.

1. Microsoft Paint

Microsoft Paint is a simple Bitmap image graphics editor that has been included with all versions of Microsoft Windows. All you need to open give the size to your image and save your files in Windows bitmap, JPEG, GIF, PNG, and single-page TIFF formats.

Moreover, you can also use the other features of Microsoft Paint that is:

• If you wish to remove some spots on your image you can use the brush to remove it.
• Among the sizes of the image, you can also go with the crop to crop and keep only the required area.

Note* The speciality of Microsoft Paint is to always maintain the aspect ratio of the image loaded. That is, when you change the width, the height is also changed and vice-versa.

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2. Paint.NET

Paint.net is another freeware bitmap image graphics editor program for Microsoft Windows, developed on the .NET Framework 4.6. It is an image and photo editing software for PCs that run Windows.

Paint.NET is very simple to use, the first download and install Paint.NET if not already installed. It offers more advanced feature than and you can edit photos for the government exams application forms online.

You can use Image Resize and absolute size to get the desired image. Also, if you want to disable aspect ratio you can.

3.Microsoft Office Picture Manager

Here comes another Microsoft product, Microsoft Office Picture Manager. It is a part of Microsoft Office Suite and serves you with basic photo editing tool.

You can manage, edit, share and view your pictures from where you store them on your computer. Microsoft Office Picture Manager is very easy software to use and is good for quick edits

If you are not satisfied with the Brightness and contrast, Color you can change it from the picture edit menu. Also, You can do Crop, Rotate, flip, Red-eye removal, Resize your picture.(whichever you left out in the above step).

4. GIMP

GIMP is a free and open-source raster graphics editor software. it is also the best-recommended software for photo editing.

GNU stands for GNU Image Manipulation Program.  Most of the features of GIMP are similar to Photoshop. It is available for GNU/Linux, OS X, Windows and more operating systems.

It provides you all the tools needed for high-quality image manipulation. From retouching to restoring to creative composites.  

5. Adobe Photoshop

Here, comes the ultimate solution for any kind of photo editing, Adobe Photoshop. It is not a free tool but Once you buy it you can unlock many photo editing feature.

So, Create and enhance your photos, images, and designs with Adobe Photoshop, the world’s best imaging and photo editing software.

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