Photos you must not edit

Some photographs are evidence. A recolour tool can do a great deal to a picture, and for those photographs the right amount is nothing at all.

Identity photographs

Passport and visa photographs are checked against the person. The rules for them say so directly: a colour photograph, a plain white background, even lighting, and no alteration by software — no filters, no retouching, no changed colours. A recolour of the shirt, the background or the eyes in such a photo turns a valid photograph into one that may be refused, or worse, treated as altered.

So this site offers no “passport background to white” preset, and every page that opens on portraits carries one line: do not use a recolour on a photo you will submit as ID.

What the forms say about colour

Rules relevant to colour, as published (checked October 2026; confirm on the official portal before relying on them)
Use	Rule about colour	Source
Indian passport photo upload	white background; colour photograph; must not be altered by software; no filters	High Commission of India notice (ICAO photo rules)
JAM 2025 application photo	white or very light background; in colour	jam2025.iitd.ac.in, documents page
JAM 2025 signature	black or dark blue ink only, on white paper	jam2025.iitd.ac.in, documents page
SSC CGL signature	black ink on white paper (secondary source)	a coaching site's summary; confirm against the current SSC notice

Where a colour tool may help, and where it may not

Turning an exam photo black and white breaks a rule that asks for colour; the black-and-white page warns when a picture is in the usual exam-photo size range. A signature scanned grey can be cleaned so the ink you used reads as ink and the paper as paper — but that is cleaning a scan, not changing the pen. If the form says sign in black ink, sign in black ink.

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