DIY Headshots
Your headshots

AI retouching · Your face, checked

Professional headshots from one selfie, for $1.

Our AI retouching gives your photo studio light, a clean backdrop and work clothes if you want them, and checks every take still looks like you. Sized for LinkedIn, résumés and ERAS.

Take your headshotHow we keep your face
Price
$1, any look
Ready in
About 40 s
Takes
5 per shoot
Example selfie taken in a car

Before · car selfie

The same person as a studio headshot in a suit jacket

After · Corporate look

Same face. Dressed for the job.Example: a fictional person

How it works

  1. 1

    Take one photo

    On your phone, your laptop camera, or upload one you have. We guide the light and framing.

  2. 2

    Dress for the job

    Tell us what you do and we’ll suggest the look: nurse, attorney, engineer, anything. Or keep your own clothes.

  3. 3

    Download

    Studio light and a clean crop in about 40 seconds, sized for LinkedIn, ERAS and CVs. Five takes per shoot.

Inside the studio

One screen for the whole shoot.

A shoot is one photo and 5 takes for $1. Pick a look for your job, then its style and a backdrop, and make a take. Compare it with your photo, try another look, or change the photo any time: everything stays in the shoot.

The DIY Headshots studio: a headshot on the stage, the shoot’s takes in a filmstrip below, shoots down the left and the look, style and backdrop picker on the right
A look for every job
Type what you do and land on its look. The ones we’ve measured follow what real people in that job wear.
Styles and backdrops
Three outfits per look, and studio grey, light, dark, warm, office, outdoors or city behind you.
Still you
Zoom in and hold to compare with your photo. Every take is checked with face matching before you see it.
Your shoots, kept
Every shoot stays in the sidebar, and paid ones are saved to your account to download any time.
The look picker: Look, Style and Backdrop tabs above a grid of looks for different jobs
Looks, styles and backdrops, one tab each.
The studio on a phone: the headshot, the filmstrip, and Download and New take buttons at the bottom
On your phone, start to finish.

Screenshots show a fictional person.

From everyday selfie to studio portrait

Examples are fictional people.

Example selfieThe same person as a studio headshot
Example selfieThe same person as a studio headshot
Example selfieThe same person as a studio headshot
Example selfieThe same person as a studio headshot

Why $1

Most people need one good headshot, not a hundred.

AI headshot packages
from $29 (median $35)
JCPenney, one business headshot
$74.98
Photographer, short session
about $159
DIY Headshots
$1 a shoot, 5 takes

Prices from each provider’s own pricing page. See all headshot prices.

Still you

We tested 8 AI models on keeping your face.

Same selfies, same instructions, measured with face recognition. FLUX 3 changed faces the least, so it’s what retouches your photo here. Some models smoothed away wrinkles and moles; one added glasses to people who don’t wear them.

Read the likeness test →

DIY guides

HeadshotDB · free reference data