Changelog (page 21)

September 25, 2026

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  When your photo and the size you ask for are different shapes, you can now keep the whole photo instead of cropping it. Choose a white, black, blurred or any colour border under Fill the box, as on the 1080 x 1080 page.

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  File size mode now keeps more pixels for large targets: 1 MB works at up to 2290 pixels on the long side and 2 MB at up to 3238, instead of 1600 for every target. Our test photos stayed at quality 91 to 96. The bulk resizer does the same.

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  The Canada passport photo page now warns, above the tool, that Canada only accepts a photo taken and printed by a commercial photographer and never edited, and explains the online renewal file. The tool is there to check a photo's size.

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  New Increase image size in KB tool: pick a form's minimum of 20, 50, 100 or 200 KB and the photo is saved at a higher quality until it clears it, with a clear note when it needs more pixels instead. No padding bytes are added.

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  New guide: JPG vs PNG vs WebP vs AVIF, with file sizes and a detail score for seven images saved in each format by this site's converter.

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  The converter's AVIF button now says AVIF is usually smaller than JPEG, not always: on one of five test photos it came out larger at the same setting.

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  New guide: passport photo background colour by country, every rule quoted from the authority and grouped, including the two that forbid white.

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  New Remove EXIF tool: see the location, camera, date and software a JPEG, PNG or WebP carries, then download a copy without them. The image is not re-saved, the orientation and DPI are kept, and several photos can be cleaned at once.

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  New exam and ID form sizes page: all 14 uploads from SSC, NEET, UPSC, IBPS, PAN and the driving licence on one filterable list, which of them one file can satisfy, and which KB minimums a small box makes hard to reach.

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  New driving licence page for Sarathi: the photo at 420 x 525 pixels and the signature at 256 x 64, each kept between 10 and 20 KB, with measurements showing a clean 256 x 64 signature cannot reach the 10 KB minimum and what to do instead.

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  New PAN card page: the photo at 3.5 x 2.5 cm and the signature at 2 x 4.5 cm, made at 200 DPI (197 x 276 and 354 x 157 pixels) and kept under 50 KB, with both of Protean's published file limits and what the tool measured against them.

• fixed

  The illustrations on every page are sharp again. They were saved as lossy WebP, which blurred their text and edges; they are now lossless, at about the same file size.

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  New Irish passport photo page: a colour JPEG from 715 x 951 pixels and under 9MB for an online application, made in your browser, with what quality 95 costs at that size. The printed range, 35 x 45 mm to 38 x 50 mm, is on the page, and the 35 x 45 mm page now counts Ireland.

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  New New Zealand passport photo page: a 3:4 JPEG from 900 x 1200 pixels, 250KB to 5MB, made in your browser, with what the 250KB minimum costs a photo at that size. The 35 x 45 mm page and the documents list now count New Zealand among the countries that state pixels.

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  New UK visa and ETA photo page: make the face photo UKVI asks you to upload, at least 600 x 750 pixels and 50KB to 6MB, and see why it cannot be your passport photo. It also says when the visa centre takes the photo for you.

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  Every format pair page now has a Spanish version, from JPG a PNG to HEIC a JPG, with the same measured file sizes as the English pages. The HEIC page says where the iPhone format setting is in Spain and in Latin America.

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  Six file size pages in Spanish: compress an image to 20, 50, 100, 200 or 500 KB, or 1 MB, each with the same measured results as its English page. The Spanish compressor now links to them first, and the English pages offer the Spanish version.

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  New LinkedIn banner size page: resize a photo to 1584 x 396 for a profile banner, or switch to Company Page for 1512 x 256, LinkedIn's current Page cover size. It explains why guides still quote 1128 x 191 or 4200 x 700. The LinkedIn profile photo page links to it.

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  New YouTube page: one resizer for all six images a channel uploads, from the video and Shorts thumbnails to the banner, profile picture, watermark and post image, each with its YouTube Help source and read date. The YouTube size pages now link up to it, and the social page links to it under YouTube.

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  New YouTube profile picture size page: resize a photo to an 800 x 800 square, the size YouTube recommended in 2023, with what YouTube's page says today (shown at 98 x 98, files up to 15 MB) and why the 2 MB limit in many guides is not YouTube's.

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  New YouTube banner size page: resize a photo to YouTube's recommended 2560 x 1440 channel banner under 6 MB, with the 2048 x 1152 minimum, the 1235 x 338 safe area YouTube states, and why guides also quote 1546 x 423 for the same area. Social pages now name each other by their full titles, such as YouTube thumbnail size and YouTube banner size.

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  New Instagram story size page: resize a photo to 1080 x 1920 for a story, or switch to Reel cover for 420 x 654, with the source of each figure, Meta's 600 x 1067 minimum and 30 MB limit, and what the safe zone guidance actually says. The 1080 x 1920 page links to it.

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  The social page is now a social media image size chart: every platform size on one filterable list with its file limit, source and read date, the same sizes grouped by shape with the other slots each export fits uncropped, and two figures common charts get wrong, the YouTube thumbnail and Instagram's tallest post, set against the platform's own page.

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  The Spanish image compressor now lists the forms with a Spanish page by the most they accept: the US visa and DV Lottery photos at up to 240 KB and the US passport renewal at 54 KB to 10 MB, each with its source and read date. A new answer explains why a file under the limit can still be rejected.

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  Document and social pages now state each file size limit as the authority prints it, such as 200 KB for the OCI photo instead of 195.3 KB. Where a limit is read in thousands of bytes, a new line gives the exact bytes and what your computer shows for them.

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  The image compressor now lists the forms that state a file size limit, grouped by that limit from 20 KB to 10 MB, each with its full range, source and read date, and links each limit to its size page. The 20, 50, 100, 200 and 300 KB and 1 MB pages list the forms that ask for them.