LinkedIn headshot generator

Upload one clear selfie, facing the camera in daylight with your whole head in frame, and press Make my headshot. The corporate look is already set: a plain gray backdrop, business attire and even light. Make the headshot with any DreamBench plan and download it full size.

That is the instruction: keep the same face, features, skin, hair, eyes and expression, with natural skin texture and no change to the face, read from your selfie at high fidelity. It doesn't give you a different person's face. Compare it with your selfie in the page before you use it.

A profile photo works well when your face fills about 60% of the frame, your eyes are level and sharp, you look at the camera, and the background is plain, so the small round crop still reads. This tool frames head and shoulders on a plain gray backdrop; crop tighter afterward if you want the face larger.

Because the selfie was. The model re-renders from your photo and cannot recover a face that was out of focus, backlit or dim, so a weak selfie gives a weaker headshot. Retake it facing a window in daylight, with the phone at eye level and no filter, and run it again.

A LinkedIn profile picture should be square, as a JPG or PNG, and large enough to stay sharp when opened. LinkedIn shows it in a circle, so leave room around the head. This headshot comes out square at a fixed size, listed under What you get, with that room built in. LinkedIn compresses what you upload, so upload the full-size file, not a screenshot of it.

The best background for a LinkedIn photo is plain and mid-toned. It keeps the eye on your face in the small circle beside your name, and gray sits well with any skin tone, hair color and clothes; a busy room competes with your face at that size. This headshot puts you on plain mid-gray. To keep a photo you like and change only its backdrop, use the AI background changer.

It is OK to use an AI headshot on LinkedIn if it is recognizably you. This one is made from your own selfie with your face kept, the way a retouched studio photo would be, and nothing on your face is reshaped. If a recruiter or an employer asks how it was made, tell them.

A relaxed smile reads well in the small circle beside your name, and the model keeps the expression in your selfie, so smile there if you want it in the headshot. A neutral face is kept too; what changes is the backdrop, the clothes and the light, not your expression.

Yes, in either phone's browser, with no app to install: pick the selfie from your camera roll, an iPhone's HEIC photo included, press Make my headshot, download the square JPEG and upload it in the LinkedIn app. Each run takes one selfie and makes one headshot.

No. DreamBench adds no watermark to the headshot you download; it is a plain square JPEG, ready to upload as it is. The image model that made it may embed an invisible mark of its own, which changes nothing you or a recruiter can see.

Not here. The banner behind your profile photo is a long, narrow strip, much wider than any frame a DreamBench tool makes; this page makes the square profile photo only, framed for the circle beside your name.

No. Making a headshot needs a DreamBench plan, and you create an account on the way to it. The button shows each run's price in credits before you press it, and a run that fails is refunded.

Your clothes, yes: the corporate look dresses you in smart dark business attire, so a T-shirt comes back as a jacket. Your glasses, hair and skin stay as they are, and nothing on your face is reshaped. For a different outfit or setting, the AI headshot generator offers creative, outdoor and black-and-white looks.

A group photo is not the right photo: the headshot is made from the largest face in the picture, so a photo of you alone, facing the camera, is what to upload. Where your browser can detect faces, the page warns before you press Make my headshot that no face was found or that the photo shows several. Crop a group photo to yourself first.

A selfie is declined when the first model refuses it under its content rules, which cover some photos of real people. A selfie it declines is tried once on a second model, on the same payment, with the same corporate instruction. Only when both decline is the run refunded, so a headshot you did not get is never charged for.

Use this page for a LinkedIn profile photo: the corporate look is fixed and the frame is square, so there is nothing to choose. Use the AI headshot generator for a choice of four looks, corporate, creative studio, outdoor daylight and black and white, in a taller 3:4 portrait frame. Both run the same model, and each page lists its output size under What you get.

Each run uses 20 credits from your DreamBench plan. Starter, $9.99 a month, includes 1,100 credits a month, about 55 runs of the LinkedIn headshot generator, plus AI video. A run that fails is refunded.

Yes: a free account and a DreamBench plan. The tools are part of every plan, from Starter at $9.99 a month.

A photo up to 40 megabytes: JPEG, PNG, WebP, HEIC or another format your browser opens. A photo straight from a phone is fine, an iPhone's HEIC included: the page scales a large picture down to 2048 pixels on its long edge before the run, so the result is never larger than the page says.

Yes. Under the DreamBench Terms you may use what a tool makes for personal and commercial purposes, including advertising, monetized content and work for clients, with no separate commercial-use upgrade. The Terms don't guarantee copyright in a result or clear another person's rights in your upload, so only use photos you have the rights to.

No. DreamBench doesn't use your prompts, uploads or videos to train or fine-tune AI models, and any future training program would be opt-in.

It stays in your browser until you make a result. Then it is used to make that result and nothing else, and removed from the tool's storage after seven days along with the result. A result you keep in your library stays as long as you keep it.