--- title: "Add Name and Date to a Photo – Exam and Form Photos" description: "Put your name and the date the photo was taken in a white strip under your portrait, at the exact pixel size and KB a form asks for. Free, no sign-up." url: "https://imagecompressor.si/name-and-date-on-photo" lang: "en" --- # Add your name and date to a photo Some applications want the candidate's name and the photo's date printed under the face. Type them, and the strip is added inside the size. ## How it works 1. **Add your images** Drag and drop, paste, or pick files. They upload over an encrypted connection. 2. **Pick a quality or a target size** Use the quality slider, or tell it exactly how many KB or MB you need. 3. **Download** Save each file, or grab them all at once as a ZIP. Several recruitment and examination bodies ask for a photograph with the candidate's name and the date it was taken written below the face, so that an old or borrowed photo is easy to spot. Doing that in a phone editor usually means guessing a font size and squeezing the picture. Here you type the name and the date, and a white strip with both lines is placed at the bottom of the photo. The strip lies inside the width and height you enter, not below them, so the finished file still has exactly the pixels the form names. The crop frame takes the shape of the part above the strip, which keeps the face in proportion. The file size fields work as on the other photo pages, so the weight can be kept inside a range too. Read your form's instructions for the date's format. Some want the day the photo was taken, others any date in the last few months; write it exactly as they show it. ## How the strip is laid out The strip takes a little under a fifth of the photo's height, white with black bold lettering, centred. The name is on the first line and the date on the second. Long names are made smaller to fit the width rather than cut. Either line may be left empty if your form asks for only one of them. ## Getting the portrait right above it Because the face now has less height to fill, frame it a little tighter than for a plain passport photo: the top of the head near the top edge, shoulders just visible. A plain, light wall behind you keeps the strip and the background looking like one piece of paper. Capital letters are easier to read at small sizes, and many forms ask for the name exactly as on the application, so copy it from there. ## Checking before you upload Open the download and zoom in to check that both lines are readable. If the form also sets a file size, the result line shows whether the photo is inside it. The photo checker can confirm the pixel size and the background once more. ## A photo for more than one form If you apply to several posts with different size rules, make the portrait once and change only the size fields for each form. The name and date fields keep what you typed, so every version carries the same caption, and each download is named with its own pixel size so they do not get mixed up. When you have all the versions, open them one by one before uploading and check that the caption is readable in each. At very small sizes, under about 200 pixels wide, the letters get tiny, so a short name in capitals matters most then. ## Frequently asked questions ### Will the name make my photo the wrong size? No. The strip is part of the size you enter, so the width and height stay exactly as required. ### Which date should I write? Usually the date the photo was taken. Follow your form's instructions, including the order of day, month and year. ### Can I use another language for my name? The lettering covers Latin script with accents. For other scripts, write the name in English as the form usually allows. ### Can I print the photo with the strip? Yes. Switch on the printable sheet to get copies on a 4 × 6 inch print. ### Is my photo saved? No. It is processed on our server and deleted at once. ### Can I change the colour of the strip? The strip is white with black letters, which is what forms that ask for a caption show in their examples. ### Can the caption go above the photo? No, the strip is always at the bottom, where forms usually ask for it, so the face stays in the upper part as is usual for document photos. ## Related tools - [Resize a photo for a passport or ID](https://imagecompressor.si/passport-photo-resize): Crop to the photo's shape, get the exact pixels and DPI, and keep the file inside the KB limits your form sets. - [Check a photo against the requirements](https://imagecompressor.si/photo-requirements-checker): Find out before you submit whether your photo has the size, weight, format and background the application asks for. - [Clean up a photographed signature](https://imagecompressor.si/signature-cleaner): Shadows, grey paper and notebook lines go; the ink stays, cropped close and sized for your form.