A headshot is a head and shoulders portrait of one person, lit evenly and shot against a plain or softly blurred background, taken to identify you rather than to tell a story. It is the photo used on company websites, staff directories, email signatures, conference programs and press releases, and it is normally cropped square or circular, so the face sits high in the frame and fills most of it.

What should I wear for a professional headshot?

Wear what the most senior person in your company wears on a client day. For most industries that is a charcoal or navy suit with a white shirt, or a tailored blazer or blouse in a solid mid tone. Skip fine patterns, logos and bright colours, which either shimmer on screen or tint your skin under studio light.

What background is best for a professional headshot?

A plain or softly blurred neutral: seamless charcoal, a beige studio wall or a corporate lobby bokeh. Check your company's team page first and match what is already there, since consistency across a directory grid looks more professional than any single backdrop.

How much do professional headshots cost?

Starter is 29 dollars for 40 headshots, Professional is 39 dollars for 60, and Executive is 59 dollars for 100 with 4K downloads. That is one payment per session with no subscription, compared with the hourly rate plus per-image editing fees a studio typically charges.

Is it okay to use AI for headshots?

Yes, when the result is your own likeness. Smart Headshots AI trains a private model on the photos you upload, so the face, skin tone and expressions are yours and only the outfit, background and lighting are generated. You own full commercial rights, and every delivered PNG carries embedded metadata declaring it as AI generated, which is what most publications and an increasing number of employers ask for. Use a result that looks like you on a normal working day, and every plan is refundable within 7 days if none of them do.

Can I get professional headshots without going to a studio?

Yes. Upload 8 or more everyday photos of yourself, choose your outfits and backdrops, and Smart Headshots AI generates the portraits from a private model trained only on your photos. There is no booking, no travel and no wardrobe to bring.

Will AI professional headshots look like me?

Yes, because the model is trained only on your own photos and keeps your real features, skin tone and expressions. Likeness depends on your uploads: clear, well-lit photos taken from a step back give the best result. If a batch misses, Professional and Executive include one free re-run, and every plan is refundable within 7 days.

What resolution do I get for print and company websites?

Every headshot is a 4:5 portrait PNG. Starter delivers standard resolution for web and directories, Professional delivers high resolution, and Executive delivers 4K originals with print-ready formats for banners, reports and press use.

Can I use these headshots on my company website and in press releases?

Yes. You own full commercial rights to every image, so you can use them on your company site, in press kits, on conference slides, in proposals and anywhere else. Delivered PNGs carry embedded metadata identifying them as AI-generated, which most publications now expect.

Can my whole team get matching professional headshots?

Each person runs their own session with the same pack, outfits and backdrops, so the set matches across the team page. Team accounts are not self-serve yet; email support with your headcount and we will set it up manually.

Professional Headshots

Professional headshots from your own photos, no photographer

Name: Professional Headshots by Smart Headshots AI
Brand: Smart Headshots AI
Price: 29.00 USD
Availability: InStock

One consistent set for the About page, the email signature and the staff directory. Upload 8 to 15 camera roll photos and a private model learns your face, nothing else. Sessions start from $29 and you pay once.

Illustrative preview. Sample result, example company.

Create my headshots Browse the looks

40 to 100 headshots by plan
Full refund within 7 days

A professional headshot is a head and shoulders portrait, evenly lit against a plain or softly blurred background, used to represent you on company websites, staff directories, email signatures, conference programs and press coverage.

Before and after

From camera roll to corporate-ready professional headshot

Every pair begins with an ordinary photo the person uploaded and ends with a portrait from their private model. The face is theirs; the suit, softbox and backdrop are the studio's.

After
Before
Professional Headshots 01
Black turtleneck against a warm neutral interior, with a slight smile. The restrained styling suits a modern people directory.
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Before
Professional Headshots 02
Charcoal blazer and white shirt in a bright office, with a gentle smile. It reads clearly as a polished workplace portrait.
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Before
Professional Headshots 03
Light blue shirt in a glass office, with a calm smile. The setting matches an office directory card.
After
Before
Professional Headshots 04
Blue blazer and white top in soft daylight, with a friendly smile. It adds a bright, approachable profile to a team grid.

Sample results. Your headshots are generated from your own photos.

Examples

Professional headshot examples from this pack

Eight looks from the professional pack, four outfits and four backdrops, to show what a corporate portrait looks like before you decide. Every session includes all of them.

outfit
Charcoal two-piece suit
The default corporate portrait for finance, insurance and law-adjacent directories.
outfit
Ivory blouse, tailored
Polished and warm, for About pages that want approachable rather than austere.
outfit
Crisp white shirt, no jacket
Modern business casual for consulting, technology and client services.
outfit
Steel-grey blazer
Tailored without being severe, and it holds up in a small directory thumbnail.
backdrop
Seamless charcoal
The studio classic. Deep and even, so the suit and the face carry the image.
backdrop
Corporate lobby bokeh
Glass and stone out of focus, the look most large companies use on leadership pages.
backdrop
Neutral beige studio
Warm and quiet, and it keeps a team grid feeling consistent.
backdrop
Boardroom depth
Blurred table and windows for senior roles and consulting team pages.

Where it shows up

The professional headshot your company keeps asking for

A professional headshot gets requested more often than most people expect, usually with a deadline. Having a matching set ready means you never send a cropped wedding photo again.

01
Company website and About page
Leadership and team pages look best when every portrait shares the same lighting and framing. A consistent set lets you match the house style your marketing team already uses.
02
Internal directory and Slack
The photo colleagues see in Outlook, Teams, Slack and the HR system, hundreds of times a week. A clear, well-lit face makes you easier to recognise across a large organisation.
03
Email signature
Signature photos render at 60 to 80 pixels. Head and shoulders on a plain backdrop is the only framing that still reads as a person at that size.
04
Conference bios and panel slides
Event organisers ask for a high-resolution headshot on a neutral background, usually the week before. A print-ready portrait in your downloads folder ends that scramble.
05
Press releases and industry profiles
Trade publications and press kits reuse whatever photo you send. A formal suit-and-tie portrait on a seamless backdrop is what editors expect and what prints cleanly.
06
Proposals, pitch decks and client portals
Client-facing documents put your face next to your credentials. A matching professional headshot across the whole account team signals a firm that has its act together.

Outfits and backdrops

Wardrobe and sets a corporate photographer would bring

Each session includes all 6 outfits and 6 backdrops in the pack. Choose the ones that match your company's house style, or generate the full range and pick afterwards.

6+ outfits and 6+ backdrops

Outfits

Backdrops

Charcoal two-piece suit

The universal corporate portrait. Banking, insurance, accounting and any directory where everyone else is in a suit.

Navy suit, silk tie

The most formal option in the pack. Leadership pages, board bios and annual reports.

Crisp white shirt, no jacket

Modern business casual. Consulting, technology and companies that dropped the jacket but kept the standards.

Steel-grey blazer

Tailored without being severe. Client services, project management and mid-level roles across most industries.

Ivory blouse, tailored

Polished and warm. HR, operations, healthcare administration and any About page that wants approachable over austere.

Black suit, open collar

Sharp and contemporary. Executives at growth companies, agencies and firms where a tie now reads as old-fashioned.

Seamless charcoal

The classic studio backdrop for formal portraits. Deep, even and neutral, so a suit and face carry the image.

Corporate lobby bokeh

A soft suggestion of glass and stone. The look most large companies use across their leadership pages.

Neutral beige studio

Warm and quiet. Flatters most skin tones and keeps directory grids feeling consistent and calm.

Boardroom depth

Blurred table and windows for a sense of place. Fits senior roles and consulting team pages.

Frosted glass partition

Clean office texture with no visible detail behind you. Suits modern workplaces and tech-adjacent firms.

Slate grey gradient

A gentle falloff from light to dark. Adds studio polish to a portrait without changing the mood of a plain backdrop.

Getting it right

What makes a professional headshot look professional

Corporate portrait photographers follow a short list of rules. These are the ones that matter most, and the ones the pack is built around.

Use even, shadow-free light
Studio portraits use a large softbox in front and slightly above the face for a reason: it removes harsh shadows and flatters everyone. Uneven light is the fastest way for a headshot to look amateur.
Frame head and shoulders, square to the camera
Directories and email signatures crop tight. A head-and-shoulders portrait with a slight shoulder angle and your face centred survives every crop your company will apply.
Match your company's house style
Check the leadership page before you choose. If everyone is on a dark seamless backdrop in a jacket, pick that. A headshot that matches the grid looks more senior than one that stands out.
Pick solid, mid-tone colours
Charcoal, navy, steel grey and ivory photograph reliably. Fine patterns shimmer on screen, bright colours cast tints on the skin, and pure black or white loses detail against a studio backdrop.
Keep the expression calm and confident
A relaxed, closed-mouth smile or a slight smile with direct eye contact is the register for corporate use. It works next to a title, on a panel slide and in a press release alike.
Order more than one look
The photo that suits a press release is not the one that suits Slack. Having a formal suit shot and a no-jacket shot from the same session means you never compromise on either.

What to avoid

Reusing a cropped event or wedding photo
Mixed lighting, a stray shoulder and a party background are obvious next to studio portraits on a team page. It is the most common reason a company asks you to resubmit.
Busy or branded backgrounds
Office plants, whiteboards and logos pull attention from your face and clash with everyone else's backdrop in a directory grid. Keep the background plain or softly blurred.
Heavy retouching and filters
Smoothed skin and reshaped features read as fake at print size, and colleagues notice when the person in the meeting does not match the portrait.
Sending a low-resolution file
A screenshot or a compressed messenger download falls apart on a conference banner or an annual report. Keep the original PNG and send that.

How it works

From camera roll to boardroom-ready in four steps

An AI headshot generator trains a private model on 8 to 15 of your selfies and renders studio-style professional headshots. Upload everyday camera-roll photos, get 40 to 100 headshots back in about an hour, from $29, paid once.

Four screens, nothing to schedule. Most sessions are delivered in about an hour, and your selfies are deleted 7 days after delivery, or sooner if you ask.

LinkedIn Headshots
Up to 100 shots
Outfit
Navy blazer
Backdrop
Seamless grey
Lighting
Soft key
01Choose your pack
Ten packs: LinkedIn, corporate, medical, legal, founder, real estate, academic, author, therapist and dating. Each one sets the outfits, backdrops and lighting.
Your name
Alex Moreau
Where we send them
[email protected]
Age range
18-2526-3536-45
No password · nothing charged
02Tell us who is in the photos
Your name, the email we deliver to, and two quick answers that set wardrobe fit. No password, nothing charged yet.
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12 of 15 photos added
03Add 8 to 15 selfies
Camera-roll photos are fine. No tripod, no makeup artist. Each photo is checked as it lands, so blurry and duplicate shots are turned away before they cost you a slot.
Private model. Never shared. Selfies deleted after 7 days.
04Pay once, and the run starts
One payment, nothing recurring. A private model trains on your photos only, and 40 to 100 professional headshots land in your gallery in about an hour.
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Training
Photos read
12 / 15
Angles mapped
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Download all4K originals4:5 portrait

7-day
full refund if the set is not right: ~1 hr
average delivery time

Create your headshots

Upload guidance

The photos that produce the best professional headshots

The model learns your face from your uploads, so the goal is clear, varied, honest photos of you. Consistency of the person matters; polish of the photos does not.

Distance

Turned down: Arm's-length selfie — Turned down

Framing

Works: Face and shoulders fill the frame — Works

Turned down: Lost in the room — Turned down

Light

Turned down: Backlit or in sunglasses — Turned down

Do

Upload at least 8 photos, ideally 8 to 15.
Have them taken from a step back rather than at arm's length so your proportions stay true.
Show your whole face, in focus, in every photo.
Vary the angle, expression and light: office, outdoors, daylight, indoor lamps.
Use photos from the last year or two so the portrait matches how you look in meetings now.

Don't

No selfies shot at arm's length; that close, the phone lens pushes your features wider and the model bakes the change into every result.
No sunglasses, hats or anything hiding the majority of your face.
No group photos, even cropped down to you.
No beauty filters, skin smoothing or heavily edited images.

Pricing

Studio-grade professional headshots at a fraction of a studio session

A single charge for the session with nothing recurring. Starter gives you 40 headshots from $29; Professional and Executive add higher resolution, faster delivery and one free re-run. Refunds are available on every plan within 7 days.

Starter

~2 hours

A polished profile photo, fast.

$29/ 40 headshots

40 AI headshots
Your choice of any photo pack
Every outfit and backdrop in your pack
Delivered in ~2 hours
Standard resolution downloads
No re-try included

Get 40 headshots

Professional

Save 20%~1 hour

The full wardrobe, for people whose face is part of the job.

$49$39/ 60 headshots

60 AI headshots
Your choice of any photo pack
Every outfit and backdrop in your pack
Delivered in ~1 hour
High-resolution downloads
1 free re-run of your batch

Get 60 headshots

Executive

Save 25%~30-45 minutes

Every look you'll need this year, delivered in under an hour.

$79$59/ 100 headshots

100 AI headshots
Your choice of any photo pack
Every outfit and backdrop in your pack
Priority delivery in ~30-45 minutes
4K high-resolution downloads
1 free re-run of your batch
Print-ready formats

Get 100 headshots

Every plan, next to a photographer session

The photographer column is a typical US range for one headshot session, not a quote from any studio.

Smart Headshots AI plans compared with a typical photographer session
Compare	Starter	Professional	Executive	Typical photographer
Price	$29, paid once	$39, paid once	$59, paid once	Typically $150 to $450 per session
Headshots delivered	40 headshots	60 headshots	100 headshots	Typically 3 to 10 retouched photos
Time to delivery	About 2 hours	About 1 hour	About 30-45 minutes	Typically 1 to 2 weeks after the shoot
Resolution	Standard resolution	High resolution	4K resolution	High resolution, often priced per photo
Outfits and backdrops	6+ outfits and 6+ backdrops in your pack	6+ outfits and 6+ backdrops in your pack	6+ outfits and 6+ backdrops in your pack	Typically 1 or 2 outfits you bring yourself
Re-run	No re-run included	1 free re-run	1 free re-run	Typically a second paid session
Refund	Full refund within 7 days	Full refund within 7 days	Full refund within 7 days	Varies by photographer