Join a Photo and Signature into One Image

The combined-upload pattern exists because some legacy form systems have exactly one document slot for identity images, and their notifications describe a precise assembly: photograph on top, signature below, one JPEG. Applicants without an image editor end up screenshotting collages out of word processors — with drifting margins, grey paper backgrounds and wild file sizes. This is that assembly, done properly.

Both inputs are normalised to a common width so the stack has no ragged edge, joined on pure white with no divider line (portals that want a separator say so; none of the common ones do), and encoded as a single baseline JPEG. The KB ceiling is enforced by the same quality search used across this site's exact-size tools, so the combined file arrives inside the limit on the first attempt with its achieved size displayed.

Proportions take care of themselves if the inputs were prepared to their own specs first — a 200×230 photo above a 140×60 signature reads correctly at matched width. Feeding in raw phone shots works too, but the cleaner path is: photo through the exam-photo preset, signature through the signature cleaner, then join. Each stage stays verifiable that way.

Check one detail in your notification before uploading: order and orientation. The overwhelming convention is photo above signature, but a few forms want the reverse or a horizontal join — if yours does, run the pieces separately and follow its diagram rather than assuming the default.