AI Headshot Generator Studio headshots from your selfies, in minutes

You upload a few selfies and pick a style. Imagera studies your face across those photos and renders a new, studio-lit portrait that keeps your real features while improving the lighting, framing and background. You are not retouching one photo — you are getting a fresh professional headshot built from your likeness.

That is the whole point, and it is the main thing we optimise for. Imagera preserves your real facial identity and only refines the setting, grooming and lighting. Uploading several clear, recent photos from slightly different angles gives the most faithful result. The Pro quality tier is tuned for the truest likeness.

Yes. LinkedIn permits AI-assisted profile photos as long as the image genuinely reflects your likeness — which is exactly how Imagera works. Because your headshot is built from your own photos rather than an invented face, it stays true to you.

Between one and four. One good photo works, but two to four images taken from slightly different angles and in different lighting noticeably improve the likeness and give the model more to work with.

Clear, recent, well-lit photos where your face is fully visible and roughly front-facing. Avoid heavy filters, sunglasses, group shots and anything blurry or low-resolution. Natural daylight selfies usually work best.

Minutes. You upload, choose a style and generate — the portrait renders and lands in your history ready to download, with no scheduling, travel or back-and-forth editing.

You do. The headshots you generate are yours to use for your profiles, applications, websites and marketing.

Your uploads are used to generate your headshots and are tied to your account. We do not sell your photos or use them to advertise to other people.

Headshots run on Imagera credits, starting at a small per-image cost that is a fraction of a studio session. You can top up credits as you go, and a single upload can produce several looks — far cheaper than booking and re-booking a photographer.

General image tools can produce a portrait, but they tend to re-render or stylise faces and drift away from your actual likeness. Imagera is built specifically for identity-preserving headshots, so the result still looks like you rather than a lookalike.

For LinkedIn and corporate looks, solid, muted colours and simple necklines photograph best — a blazer, collared shirt or smart knit. Imagera’s styles already apply business attire, but starting from neat, uncluttered clothing in your uploads helps.

A relaxed, genuine smile reads as approachable and is a safe choice for LinkedIn and most business contexts. For actor or editorial looks a more neutral, characterful expression can work better. Imagera’s style presets are tuned to the right expression for each use case.

Every couple of years, or whenever your appearance changes noticeably or you change roles. Because regenerating with Imagera takes minutes, it is easy to refresh your photo far more often than a studio shoot would allow.

It depends on where you are applying. Employers in much of continental Europe expect a professional photo on a CV, while recruiters in the US, UK, Canada and Australia generally prefer no photo. When a photo is expected, a clean Imagera headshot is a strong, professional choice.

Yes. Each person uploads their own photos and picks the same style, so an entire team ends up with a consistent, on-brand set of headshots for your about page or directory — without coordinating a single shoot.

Imagera offers Standard, Pro and Premium quality tiers, with output up to 4K on the higher tiers. A high-resolution export means one file stays sharp everywhere it goes — a full-width About-page banner, a printed CV photo, a real-estate yard sign or a tiny profile avatar — without the softness you get from upscaling a small image. Pick the tier and resolution that match where your headshot will actually be used.

Match the style to where the photo will live. The LinkedIn style gives an approachable profile look with a soft office backdrop; Corporate is a business-suit look on a clean studio background for boardroom and About-page use; Real estate is bright and trustworthy for listings and signage; Creative / Actor uses editorial lighting and a more characterful expression for casting profiles. Because you regenerate from the same upload, you can try several and keep the ones that fit.

No — a passport, visa or ID photo must be an unedited photo of your real face taken to an official spec, and generated or heavily edited images are not accepted. This tool is for professional, marketing and profile headshots. If you need a compliant document photo, use the separate Passport & ID Photo maker, which formats your real photo to the official size and background rules rather than generating a new portrait.

A filter or beauty app edits a single photo — smoothing skin or adjusting colour on the image you already have. An AI headshot generator studies your face across several selfies and renders a new, studio-lit portrait with different lighting, background, framing and attire, while keeping your real likeness. The result reads as a deliberate professional photo rather than a touched-up snapshot, which is why it works where a filtered selfie would not.

Upload clear, recent, front-facing selfies and avoid heavy glamour edits that change your age, weight or bone structure — an accurate likeness is what keeps a headshot believable and useful. Skip sunglasses, hats, busy backgrounds and group photos in your source images. Our guide on how to make AI headshots look realistic (/blog/how-to-make-ai-headshots-look-realistic) covers the tell-tale signs to avoid and how to get the truest result.

Your generated headshots are saved to your account history, so you can come back and download them again whenever you need a copy for a new profile, application or print. Because your uploads and results stay tied to your account, refreshing or re-downloading later takes seconds rather than starting over.

Yes. Beyond the core styles, the engine can render profession-specific attire and settings — a white coat or scrubs for medical staff, a conservative dark suit for attorneys, a bright approachable look for real-estate agents. Each profession also has a dedicated guide covering its attire, background and platform rules: see the lawyer, doctor, real-estate and LinkedIn headshot pages for the specifics.

None. You upload a few selfies, pick a style, quality tier and resolution, and generate — the tool handles the lighting, background, framing and attire. There is no camera to set up, no studio to book and no editing software to learn. The whole process runs in your browser and finishes in minutes, so a first-time user gets a professional result on the first try.