AI Professional Headshot Maker
Upload a selfie and AI turns it into a polished, LinkedIn-ready headshot — right here. Free and instant.
Pick a style on the left, then hit Apply. Your original stays untouched — you always see both.
How to use AI Professional Headshot Maker
Upload a clear photo of your face
A front-facing JPG, PNG or WEBP where both eyes are visible and the light is even. A plain phone selfie taken near a window is genuinely better source material than a dim photo from a good camera.
Pick the style you need
Corporate, LinkedIn, executive, creative, outdoor or plain white. The choice sets the wardrobe, the background and how hard the lighting is — or write your own brief if you have something specific in mind.
Generate and download
Compare the original against the result, regenerate if the tie or the crop is not right, then download at full resolution. No watermark, and nothing is added to the image.
See it in action — real before & after
Why use AI Professional Headshot Maker
What AI Professional Headshot Maker does
Turn a selfie into a LinkedIn-ready headshot.
Retake it whenever you change
New haircut, new role, new glasses. Regenerating costs 2 credits instead of booking another session, so the photo can stay current.
Your face stays your face
Identity preservation is the whole job. Bone structure, eye shape, skin tone and the details that make you recognisable are held fixed; only clothing, lighting and background are generated.
Even, professional lighting
A soft key with a fill on the shadow side — the standard portrait setup. No hard nose shadow, no blown-out forehead, no colour cast from an office ceiling light.
Backgrounds that stay out of the way
Neutral grey, softly defocused office, dark low-key or plain white. Each one is chosen because it makes the face read first, which is the only thing a headshot has to do.
Wardrobe appropriate to the field
A suit reads differently from an open collar, and both read differently from a lab coat. The styling is matched to where the photo is going rather than applied as one generic look.
What AI Professional Headshot Maker changes
Turn this selfie into a polished professional corporate headshot: formal business attire, neutral grey studio background, soft flattering lighting and a confident, natural expression. Keep the face and identity exactly the same. This must look like a real photograph — natural skin texture, realistic lighting and shadows, sharp photographic detail — not a painting, illustration, or cartoon.
Your face, bone structure and skin tone are held fixed on every generation — only what is described above is changed.
AI Professional Headshot Maker for every kind of profile
The same face, styled for where the photo is actually going. A leadership page, a hiring portal and a conference badge all want different things from a portrait.
Company About and leadership pages
Dark tailored suit, low-key sculpted lighting, settled posture. Reads as authority without tipping into stock-photo stiffness.
Applications and official documents
Plain white backdrop, flat shadowless light, neutral expression, head square to camera — the specification most ID photos are checked against.
Creative and agency profiles
A textured or coloured backdrop and characterful directional light, for fields where looking identical to a bank's website is the wrong signal.
Speaker and press kits
Higher-contrast lighting and generous negative space around the head, so an event page can crop it square or wide without cutting into your face.
Key highlights of AI Professional Headshot Maker
Benefits
Print-ready output
The resolution holds up on a badge, a business card or a printed programme, not only on screen.
Try several directions
Generate corporate, creative and outdoor versions of the same photo and pick per platform, instead of using one portrait everywhere because it is the only one you have.
Nothing to install
It runs in the browser on a phone or a laptop. No Lightroom, no plugins, no desktop app.
Your photo is not published anywhere
The image is sent for generation and returned to you. It is not posted, shared or added to a gallery.
No subscription
Credits are a one-time purchase, they never expire, and nothing renews on its own. Buy once and use them whenever.
What people use it for
What it is mainly used for
Upload a selfie and AI turns it into a polished, LinkedIn-ready headshot — right here. Free and instant.
Refreshing a photo that has aged
If the portrait predates a haircut, glasses or a decade, the mismatch is the first thing anyone who meets you notices.
A LinkedIn photo that is not a cropped wedding shot
The most common professional headshot on the internet is someone cut out of a group photo. This replaces it in a minute.
A new starter who joined remotely
Nobody is flying someone in for a photographer. One selfie matched to the company style closes the gap in the team grid.
Consultants and freelancers
When the proposal is the product, the portrait at the top of it does real work. A studio-grade photo raises the floor on a cold pitch.
Prompt ideas
You do not need to write a prompt at all — the style presets cover most cases. If you want something specific, keep the brief short and name only what you care about: the clothing, the background, the light and the expression.
Describe the light
Direction, softness and colour temperature. Light does more to how a photograph feels than any other single thing you can specify.
Re-run before rewriting
Generation is not deterministic. The same prompt twice gives two different results, and the second is sometimes simply better.
Name the clothing precisely
"Charcoal suit, white shirt, no tie" gives a far more predictable result than "business clothes", which could mean almost anything.
Say what the background should be
"Plain mid-grey seamless backdrop" or "softly blurred modern office". Naming it stops the model choosing something distracting for you.
Describe the light, not the mood
"Soft key light from the left with a gentle fill" is actionable. "Professional lighting" is not — every lighting setup claims to be that.
Set the crop
"Head and shoulders, centred, a little space above the hair" avoids a result cropped too tight to use as an avatar.
More about AI Professional Headshot Maker
A good headshot opens doors — recruiters, clients and connections all judge a profile photo in about a second. But booking a studio is expensive and slow, and most people end up using a cropped holiday photo instead.
Upload a clear selfie and the AI gives you a polished, studio-style headshot: business attire, clean neutral background, soft flattering light. It's designed to look like real photography, not an obvious filter — the kind of photo that fits straight onto LinkedIn, a resume, or a team page.
If you've searched 'ai professional headshot' or 'linkedin headshot from selfie,' this is built for exactly that — LinkedIn profiles with a real headshot get significantly more views and connection requests than ones without. It's a faster, cheaper alternative to booking a photographer, at 2 credits a generation.
Tips for a headshot that lands
- Use a sharp, front-facing selfie taken at eye level.
- Soft, even light (a window works great) beats harsh overhead light.
- A neutral expression or a natural smile reads as the most professional.
- Generate a couple of versions and pick the one that looks most like a normal day at work, not a costume.
- If one model ignores part of your instruction, switch to the other and run it again.
- Keep the original file. It is a better base for the next attempt than a generated image is.
- For a matching set, keep the same source photo and style and change only one variable.
- Nothing you upload is published, shared or added to a gallery — but do not upload anything you would not want to leave your device at all.
- The free on-device tools — compress, convert, crop, resize, rotate — cost no credits, so use them for mechanical work.
- If a result is nearly right, say what is wrong with it in the next run rather than starting over.
- Start with a front-facing photo where both eyes are clearly visible — a slight angle is fine, a strong three-quarter turn is not.
It's free to try and runs online — nothing to install. Explore the rest of our AI Creative Apps, or open the full AI photo editor for more control.
