Upload one photo of yourself, choose one of eight plain backgrounds and one pose, and get a head-and-shoulders headshot: your face, your skin and your clothes exactly as they were, a seamless studio backdrop behind you. One free a day with no account; sign up and your gallery photos go in as references for a closer likeness.
A headshot is a photo with one job: to show your face clearly against a plain background. This tool makes exactly that from one ordinary photo of you. Your face, your skin, your hair and the clothes in the photo are kept as they are. The background is replaced with a seamless studio backdrop in the colour you choose, and the framing is tightened to head and shoulders, chest up or waist up, depending on the look.
Not your jawline. In the second or two a headshot gets on a profile or a company page, three things register: whether the face is clear, whether the expression is one a person would want to speak to, and whether the photograph looks like it belongs in that setting. Everything else is detail. A clear face on a plain background beats a flattering photograph taken at a wedding, every time, because the second one asks the viewer to do work.
Every look is one correction a portrait photographer would give you: chin level, eyes on the lens, shoulders off square, a real smile instead of the held one, soft light on the face. They come from the same library as Pose Maxing, rewritten for a portrait frame. Anything about the legs, the seat or the room was left out, because none of it exists in a headshot.
Eight fixed colours: white, off-white, light grey, charcoal, navy, studio blue, sage and warm beige. Light grey and off-white are what most company directories and LinkedIn profiles use. Charcoal and navy read more formal. White is for forms and ID-style requirements that ask for it.
The safe ones are safe because nothing about the photo draws attention to the photo, which is the whole job of a background. Charcoal and navy read more formal and sit well with a dark jacket, though they can swallow dark hair if the original light was flat. White is for forms, passes and ID-style requirements that ask for it in writing. Sage and warm beige are for people whose work is not corporate and who would look costumed against charcoal. If you are choosing for LinkedIn and cannot decide, take the one your industry is already wearing.
Whatever you would wear to the job, because the clothes in your photograph are kept. Plain colours photograph better than busy patterns, a collar reads more formal than a round neck, and one layer more than you think you need is the usual advice, since a jacket gives the shoulders a line. None of this is changed by the tool, so it has to be right before you upload.
A phone held low, which enlarges the jaw and shortens the forehead. Hard overhead light, which puts the eyes in shadow. A crop that cuts the top of the head, which no retouching recovers. Sunglasses, a cap, or a hand across the face, all of which leave the model nothing to read. And a group photo cropped to one person, where the lighting and the angle were chosen for somebody else.
It will not change your face, slim you, age you down or give you a different body. It is a background replacement, a tighter frame and a corrected light, performed on the photograph you already have. If the result stops looking like you, that is a failure rather than a feature, and the thumbs down under the result is how we hear about it.
Without an account the headshot is rebuilt from the one photo you upload, from one angle. With an account, the photos in your gallery go in as references, so the model has your face from several angles and the result holds your likeness far better. One free headshot a day either way; after that a headshot costs the same as any other photo.
Photos are processed by Azure OpenAI and OpenAI to make the edit and are not used to train models. Without an account the photo and the result are deleted after 24 hours.
That is the main use. Choose light grey or off-white, which is what most profiles around yours will be using, and upload a photo where your face is clear and lit from the front.
No. Official photographs have rules about lighting, expression, head size and the age of the photograph that vary by country and are checked by a person. This makes a professional portrait, not a document photo.
Without an account the headshot is rebuilt from one photo taken from one angle, so the model is guessing at everything it cannot see. With an account, the photos already in your gallery go in as references and it has your face from several angles.
One free headshot a day without an account, while the free promotion is running. After that a headshot costs the same as any other photo on CMeIn.