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How to Create an AI Professional Headshot from Your Photo

Prepare a suitable selfie, choose a professional style and ratio, edit your headshot prompt, review the price and save your portrait. Includes checks for facial details.

1. Prepare a suitable photo

Use a recent single-person photo with a clear face, visible hair and even light. A front-facing or slight three-quarter view is easier to inspect than a distant face. Avoid sunglasses, heavy filters and group photos. You do not need to wear a suit in the source, but your appearance should match how you want to be recognized.

2. Pick the right style

  1. Formal business

    For a CV, company biography or profile that calls for formal business attire.

    Change the jacket color or neutral background. Keep facial texture and avoid adding accessories that obscure the face.

    Use this template ↗
  2. Business casual

    For an approachable professional profile with a relaxed blazer and natural daylight.

    Swap the office backdrop for bookshelves or greenery. Describe clothing and lighting separately so the edit stays clear.

    Use this template ↗
  3. Creative professional

    For a designer, writer or creative profile with warm, understated editorial styling.

    Choose a muted backdrop color or gentle side light. Keep the subject in crisp focus and the background quiet.

    Use this template ↗
  4. Natural studio

    For a simple profile portrait with neutral clothing and a minimal studio background.

    Adjust the background tone and expression. Consistent framing is useful when making portraits for a team.

    Use this template ↗

3. Choose the framing

Choose 1:1 for a profile picture or 4:5 for a portrait with more shoulder space. The template defaults to 1:1. Check the final crop at the size where it will be used, especially on profile services that display a circular frame. Changing the ratio updates the generation price and the final framing instruction.

4. Adapt the prompt

Open a template in the prompt library. Each one includes a suggested use and an adjustment tip. Change concrete details such as an expression, clothing color or backdrop. Keep the instructions identifying the uploaded subject and avoid asking for incompatible styles in the same edit.

The execution text is in English and can be edited up to 950 characters. Select the ratio separately where offered. Copy includes the selected ratio; Use this template carries your edits to the tool without putting the text in the URL. It does not upload a photo or start generation. You can edit the applied prompt again on the tool page.

Templates ↗

5. Upload or paste your photo

Sign in when prompted, then select a JPG, PNG or WebP file up to 10 MB. Alternatively, paste one image with ⌘V on Mac or Ctrl+V on Windows. A pasted photo replaces the current source. Ordinary text pasted into a text field remains text; multiple clipboard images are rejected before upload.

Wait until the source preview appears. If the file is unreadable, choose a valid image rather than changing its extension. When signed out, pasting an image opens the account window and does not upload it. Closing that window returns focus to the upload control.

6. Review the price and generate

Review the selected style, ratio and edited prompt before submitting. The tool shows the current credit quote after a photo is uploaded. Changing the prompt, model or ratio requests a new quote. Generation requires enough credits and an available model; a disabled button means the prerequisites are not yet met.

Click Generate once after reviewing the price. The source, style, ratio and prompt are locked while the task is being submitted or processed. Applying a template and requesting a quote do not themselves start a paid generation. Keep the task ID if you need to inspect the run later.

7. Check, save and download

Inspect eyes, teeth, ears, hair and clothing at full size. AI can change facial details despite identity-preservation instructions. Compare with the source and check the crop before using the portrait professionally. A neutral background and a short, specific clothing request usually make the intended edit easier to judge.

A completed result appears with a Saved to Assets message. Download it from the result panel, or open Assets to manage it in the default category. During generation, the asset link stays below the preview and can also take you to your account's tasks.

Review the result before using it. A future edited version is a new generation with a new quote; downloading a completed result does not require submitting another task. Your original upload remains separate from the generated asset.

8. Resolve an interrupted task

If the submission receipt is missing, use Confirm the same request. The saved quote and task identity are reused so confirmation does not intentionally create a replacement task. Refreshing the tool or visiting another photo case keeps the pending task associated with its original account and case.

If status checking pauses, use Check task status or open Assets. A temporary connection failure does not establish that the generation failed. Keep checking the original task before starting a replacement. For a confirmed failure, review the task and credit history before trying a revised prompt.

If a price or budget request is rejected before submission, the tool shows the error and clears that rejected pending request. Check the message, account balance and model availability. Re-uploading a photo or trying another prompt should follow an explicit decision, rather than a rapid series of Generate clicks.

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