Profile photos, plainly explained: what a headshot has to do, how to shoot one worth processing, and where your face goes when you upload it.https://free-headshots.com/enhttps://free-headshots.com/blog/why-you-look-better-in-the-mirror-than-in-photos/https://free-headshots.com/blog/why-you-look-better-in-the-mirror-than-in-photos/You are not unphotogenic. Two things are going on: you have memorised a flipped version of your own face, and the camera was probably too close. Both are fixable.Wed, 16 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechniqueselfieslens-distancemirror-imageheadshot-tipshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/are-ai-headshots-ok-for-linkedin/https://free-headshots.com/blog/are-ai-headshots-ok-for-linkedin/The honest answer is that it depends on what the tool did to your face. Redrawing you is a problem. Relighting and cropping the photo you actually took is not.Tue, 15 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsai-headshotslinkedinprofile-photostrusthttps://free-headshots.com/blog/linkedin-profile-photo-size/https://free-headshots.com/blog/linkedin-profile-photo-size/The limits are 400x400 to 7680x4320 pixels, under 8MB, PNG or JPG. The more useful part is what LinkedIn does to your photo after you upload it.Mon, 14 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photoslinkedinimage-sizecropprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/what-to-wear-for-a-headshot/https://free-headshots.com/blog/what-to-wear-for-a-headshot/Most advice here is taste dressed up as rules. Only two things reliably decide whether clothing helps or hurts: whether it separates you from the background, and whether it competes with your face.Sun, 13 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechniquestylingheadshot-tipsclothingprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/should-you-smile-in-a-professional-headshot/https://free-headshots.com/blog/should-you-smile-in-a-professional-headshot/Usually yes, and the reason has nothing to do with looking friendly. A held smile is what goes wrong, not smiling itself. Here is how to get one that looks like you.Sat, 12 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechniqueexpressionheadshot-tipslinkedinposinghttps://free-headshots.com/blog/take-your-own-headshot-alone/https://free-headshots.com/blog/take-your-own-headshot-alone/No photographer, no assistant, no second pair of hands. A timer, something to prop the phone on, and about fifteen minutes is genuinely enough.Fri, 11 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tohow-toself-portraitphone-photographyheadshot-tipshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/remove-background-from-photo-without-uploading/https://free-headshots.com/blog/remove-background-from-photo-without-uploading/Background removal runs perfectly well inside a browser tab now, which means your photo never has to reach anyone's server. Here is how it works and how to check the claim.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tobackground-removalprivacyhow-tobrowserhttps://free-headshots.com/blog/why-ai-headshots-look-off/https://free-headshots.com/blog/why-ai-headshots-look-off/People can usually sense a generated portrait without being able to say why. The tells are specific, and some come from ordinary retouching pushed too far rather than from generation.Wed, 09 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsai-headshotsretouchingskintrusthttps://free-headshots.com/blog/how-to-photograph-a-colleague-headshot/https://free-headshots.com/blog/how-to-photograph-a-colleague-headshot/Someone has handed you their phone and asked you to take their work photo. Here is the ten-minute version, including the part most people get wrong: what to say.Tue, 08 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tohow-tophone-photographyteamlightinghttps://free-headshots.com/blog/blur-the-background-of-a-photo/https://free-headshots.com/blog/blur-the-background-of-a-photo/Real background blur comes from the lens and cannot be added later. What software does instead is a convincing imitation, and knowing the difference tells you when it will look wrong.Mon, 07 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tobackgroundhow-todepth-of-fieldeditinghttps://free-headshots.com/blog/what-a-professional-headshot-has-to-do/https://free-headshots.com/blog/what-a-professional-headshot-has-to-do/A headshot has three jobs: be recognisably you, match the room you are walking into, and survive being shrunk to 48 pixels. Everything else is decoration.Sun, 06 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photoslinkedinframingprofile-photoscrophttps://free-headshots.com/blog/shoot-a-headshot-with-your-phone/https://free-headshots.com/blog/shoot-a-headshot-with-your-phone/Ten minutes, a window and a phone. The two things you cannot fix afterwards are focus and light, so this is mostly about getting those right and ignoring the rest.Sat, 05 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tophone-photographylightinghow-tosource-photohttps://free-headshots.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-upload-your-face/https://free-headshots.com/blog/what-happens-when-you-upload-your-face/Uploading a photo of your face starts four separate clocks: transit, retention, training use and whether anyone derived a face template from it. Here is what to ask, and how to check the alternative yourself.Fri, 04 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTPrivacyprivacybiometricsgdprlocal-processinghttps://free-headshots.com/blog/headshot-lighting-one-window/https://free-headshots.com/blog/headshot-lighting-one-window/A window on an overcast day is a large, soft, free light source. Here is where to stand relative to it, and the two ways people get it wrong.Thu, 03 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechniquelightingtechniquewindow-lightheadshot-tipshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/phone-camera-settings-for-headshots/https://free-headshots.com/blog/phone-camera-settings-for-headshots/Four settings decide almost everything, and they are the same on iPhone and Android. Everything else in the camera app is noise for this particular job.Wed, 02 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tophone-photographyhow-toiphoneandroidhttps://free-headshots.com/blog/why-your-linkedin-photo-looks-blurry/https://free-headshots.com/blog/why-your-linkedin-photo-looks-blurry/Almost always one of four things, and only one of them is about the original photo being soft. The other three you can fix in a couple of minutes.Tue, 01 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photoslinkedinimage-sizecompressionprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/square-4-5-or-3-4-which-crop/https://free-headshots.com/blog/square-4-5-or-3-4-which-crop/Most places show you a circle or a square. A few want a portrait rectangle. Shoot once with room around you and you can produce all of them from the same frame.Mon, 31 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photoscropaspect-ratioprofile-photoslinkedinhttps://free-headshots.com/blog/headshot-background-colours/https://free-headshots.com/blog/headshot-background-colours/Grey, white, blue, black or the room you are standing in. The choice is mostly about how much separation you need and how formal the destination is.Sun, 30 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechniquebackgroundcolourtechniqueprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/headshots-with-glasses/https://free-headshots.com/blog/headshots-with-glasses/If you wear glasses every day, keep them on. The photo has to look like you. Reflections are the real problem and they are solved by moving, not by editing.Sat, 29 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTTechniqueglassestechniquereflectionsheadshot-tipshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/change-the-background-of-a-headshot/https://free-headshots.com/blog/change-the-background-of-a-headshot/Cutting yourself out is the easy half. Making the result look photographed rather than pasted is the half that gets skipped, and it comes down to two small additions.Fri, 28 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tobackgroundhow-tocompositingeditinghttps://free-headshots.com/blog/what-can-be-fixed-after-the-shutter/https://free-headshots.com/blog/what-can-be-fixed-after-the-shutter/A simple test decides it: is the information still in the file? Background, light and crop are recoverable. Focus, motion and a cropped crown are not.Thu, 27 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow toeditingretouchinghow-tolimitationshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/white-background-headshots/https://free-headshots.com/blog/white-background-headshots/A true white background is a specific requirement, not a default. Here is who actually asks for one, why shooting it is harder than it looks, and how to fake it well.Wed, 26 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tobackgroundwhitehow-toprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/when-the-top-of-your-head-is-cut-off/https://free-headshots.com/blog/when-the-top-of-your-head-is-cut-off/You cannot put back a skull that was never photographed. But you can frame around the cut so it reads as a deliberate crop instead of a mistake.Tue, 25 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTHow tocropframinghow-tolimitationshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/zoom-teams-profile-picture-blurry/https://free-headshots.com/blog/zoom-teams-profile-picture-blurry/Video call avatars are shown small, cropped to a circle, and often scaled twice. Three habits fix almost all of it, and none of them involve a better camera.Mon, 24 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photoszoomteamsprofile-photosvideo-callshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/ai-headshot-or-photographer/https://free-headshots.com/blog/ai-headshot-or-photographer/These are not competing products. One buys you a better photograph, the other buys you a better version of the photograph you already have. The choice is mostly about what you already own.Sun, 23 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonscomparisonsphotographersai-headshotsbudgethttps://free-headshots.com/blog/free-ai-headshot-generators-what-free-costs/https://free-headshots.com/blog/free-ai-headshot-generators-what-free-costs/Free is a real business model, not a trick. But it is paid for somehow, and the four common ways are worth recognising before you upload a dozen photos of your face.Sat, 22 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTComparisonsai-headshotspricingprivacycomparisonshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/speaker-photo-what-organisers-need/https://free-headshots.com/blog/speaker-photo-what-organisers-need/The photo goes on a website, a printed programme, a holding slide and a social card, each a different shape. Sending one small square causes most of the problems.Fri, 21 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photosspeakingconferencesprintprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/is-an-ai-headshot-misrepresentation/https://free-headshots.com/blog/is-an-ai-headshot-misrepresentation/The question worth asking is not whether software touched the photo. It is whether someone who meets you would recognise you from it.Thu, 20 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photosethicsai-headshotshonestyprofile-photoshttps://free-headshots.com/blog/why-your-photo-crops-differently-everywhere/https://free-headshots.com/blog/why-your-photo-crops-differently-everywhere/You upload one square and get a circle here, a wide banner there, and your chin missing on the third. The fix is to build the photo for the worst crop rather than the best one.Wed, 19 Aug 2026 00:00:00 GMTProfile photoscroplinkedinprofile-photosplatforms