AI headshots
A studio headshot is a morning and a hundred dollars. A set of them from your own photos is a handful of credits — as long as you feed the model the right five pictures and edit rather than invent.
What a headshot set costs
| Look development, 6 draftsFlux 2 Dev · 6 × 1 cr | 6 |
| Headshots from your photo, edit modelNano Banana Edit · 8 × 5 cr | 40 |
| Two premium finalsSeedream 4.5 Edit · 2 × 20 cr | 40 |
| Upscale the winnerUpscale · 1 × 10 cr | 10 |
Credit costs are live from the catalogue; the cash figure is Starter-plan pricing.
The mistake people make with AI headshots is generating a face from a text description and hoping it resembles them. It never quite does. The reliable route is to hand the model a photo of you and ask it to change the light, wardrobe and background — not the face.
That is an editing job, not a generation job, so the models that matter here are the ones that take a reference image. Give them five to eight clean shots of yourself and the likeness holds; give them one and it drifts into a stranger who looks a bit like you.
The workflow
How it actually runs.
Each step links to the part of the studio that does it.
Gather five to eight clean selfies
Front and slight three-quarter angles, even daylight, plain background, no sunglasses. More angles beat higher resolution — the model learns your face from the variety.
AI image editorSet the look on a draft model
Generate the wardrobe, background and lighting you want as cheap reference frames first, so you know the target before you spend on your own face.
AI image generatorRender the headshots from your photo
Use an edit model with your selfie as the reference. It keeps the face and restyles everything around it — navy blazer, soft studio key, catchlight in the eyes.
AI image editorUpscale and crop
Upscale the keeper, export at full resolution for print, and crop to 400×400 for LinkedIn so it does not compress to mush.
AI image upscalerWatch out
Where this goes wrong.
- One input photo gives you a stranger. Five to eight, from slightly different angles, is the floor for a face that stays yours.
- Over-smoothing is the giveaway. If the skin looks like plastic, the model has invented rather than edited — go back to the reference-based edit route.
- Glasses reflect, and the model can read the glare as eye structure. Use photos without glasses, or expect to re-roll those.
- A generated headshot on a professional profile is a truthfulness question, not just a quality one. If a client would not recognise you across a table, pick another frame.
FAQ
What people ask.
Feed an edit model five to eight clean photos of your face from slightly different angles, and ask it to change the lighting, wardrobe and background rather than generate a face from words. The likeness lives in the reference photos; the more angles you give, the less the face drifts. A single selfie almost always produces someone who merely resembles you.
Six look-development drafts on a 1-credit model, eight headshots on a 5-credit edit model and a couple of premium finals lands around 96 credits — roughly 27 cents at Starter pricing, against a hundred dollars and a morning for a studio session.
Five to eight is the practical floor. Front-on plus slight left and right, in even daylight, on a plain background, with a couple of different expressions. Fewer than five and the face wanders between outputs; clutter in the background is the other common cause of uncanny results.
Technically yes, and the commercial licence on Creator and Studio covers business use. The real test is honesty: a headshot is an identifier, so if the result flatters you into someone recognisably different, it works against you. Keep the one that reads as a good photo of the actual you.
Next door
Related jobs.
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22 credits a day on the free account, no card. That is enough to get through the draft stage of this workflow.