LinkedIn profile photos
LinkedIn shows your face as a small circle next to a comment, in search, and at the top of the profile. Whatever you call it — profile picture, profile photo, avatar — the image has to read at that size and still feel like you when someone opens it full size. So generate for the circle first: crop, then the Look.
10 free credits to start. A picture costs 2 credits and the premium engine 9. Review the total before generating a Shot or Set.
A practical studio workflow
Choose one recognizable head-and-shoulders portrait for the profile, a wider frame with room for website text and a relaxed variation for posts or a media kit. Judge each image in its intended crop.
Founder, speaker and creator portraits have different jobs even when they share a person. A quiet background, a credible outfit and a clear expression make reuse easier. Make a visual series before creating unrelated new identities or styles.
Make the small circle work
A LinkedIn portrait has to remain recognizable at thumbnail size. Choose a head-and-shoulders crop, a restrained background and clothes that make sense for your work.
Choose a direction you would wear at work. Start with one understated Look rather than a fashion costume or a busy pattern.
Leave room around your face and keep the eyes visible. Preview the image as a small circular crop before choosing it for your profile.
Compare the output with your reference photos. Reject a flattering result if the person in it no longer looks like you.
This page creates a portrait. The separate LinkedIn image tool prepares profile and banner crops from an image you already have. Neither promises more recruiter replies.
Have a clear face close-up and a head-to-toe photo ready. Choose a look, then adjust the scene and framing in the studio.
Download the pictures you want to keep, or heart them in the studio. Unsaved generated pictures are cleared after a couple of days.
Already have a photo? Prepare its profile or banner cropWhat you can create
A beautiful full-length fashion picture can fail here. The circle crops the edges. The face has to carry the signal.
Head-and-shoulders. Face large enough to read beside a comment. Quiet background.
The same person, a little more room, still not a fashion set.
One extra three-quarter for your site. Same Look. That is personal brand, not a new costume.
You pick a curated Look and a shoot idea off a rail rather than describing a jacket to an image generator. No prompt to phrase correctly.
Change the jacket, the light or the crop and make the photo again. What moves is the picture; what stays is you — which is why the LinkedIn circle and the website frame read as the same person.
The outfit you settle on is saved. Run it again next quarter for a new picture that still belongs to the same wardrobe.
How it works
A profile picture maker that only crops and filters a photo you already have cannot change what you are wearing. This generates a new one — so decide the crop first. Pick the outfit before the crop and you will make a portrait LinkedIn immediately cuts.
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Two ordinary photos — one full-length, one clear face close-up. Identity stays the authority.
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Chest-up or closer. Leave space for the circle to cut the corners.
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Approachable, focused, executive, or creative — for the role you actually have.
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Busy patterns and loud scenes die in a 48-pixel circle.
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Same Look, different expression. Keep the picture that still looks like you at thumbnail size.
Examples
Style examples show photographic directions, not a before/after test of one person's likeness. Compare a source and result only where both are labelled.
Your direction
LinkedIn is a hostile frame. Direct the photo for that, then reuse the Look elsewhere.
Head-and-shoulders. If you cannot see the face in a tiny circle, start again.
Open for comments. Focused for sales. Same person.
A complete curated Look — suit, knit, or smart casual. Picked off a rail, not typed into a box.
Quiet studio or a simple room. Busy streets fight the circle.
Even and kind. Hard flash is a fashion language, not a profile language.
Keep the jacket. Make a wider frame for the site. See personal branding photos.
Ideas to try
The useful test: shrink the image until it is a circle the size of a coin. If you cannot read the face, it is not a LinkedIn photo.
Imagine the picture next to a one-line comment. Soft light. Open face. No hat brim.
A founder in a knit can be more credible than a founder in a rented tux. Match the room you actually work in.
If you have a real jacket, keep it on a shelf and reuse it. The brand is the repetition.
One warmer for comments. One tighter for the profile header. Do not change clothes between them.
After the circle works, make one three-quarter for the website. That is the personal-brand set.
A full-length fashion flash frame. A group crop. A picture so retouched it stops looking like you in a meeting.
Add two reference photos of yourself, choose a Look and a head-and-shoulders crop, then generate. Unlike a general AI image generator, there is no prompt to write: you pick from curated outfits and shoot setups and adjust the visible controls.
Two. One full-length photo, head to toe, and one clear face close-up with your eyes visible and no heavy filter. A third from another angle sometimes helps. If you cannot get a clean face shot, the studio can crop one out of the full-length picture.
Head-and-shoulders or chest-up. The circle cuts the corners. Leave the face large and centred.
You keep your results and use them wherever you like — some people do use generated portraits as their profile photo. Two honest caveats: platforms set their own rules about AI-generated imagery and those rules change, so check LinkedIn's current terms yourself; and a picture that looks nothing like the person who walks into the meeting does you no favours.
We cannot answer for LinkedIn — its policy is its own and it changes. Read the current terms before you publish. The practical test on our side is recognisability: if it is plainly you, it behaves like a photo of you.
Only if that fits the role. Smart casual can be stronger. Inconsistency with the rest of your pictures is the real problem.
Yes. Generate connected alternatives and compare expression and crop before you update the circle.
Your identity photos remain the authority, though it is not a deterministic face lock. Clearer references give steadier results, some frames land closer than others, and when one drifts you generate it again.
Yes. Keep the Look, widen the crop. That is personal branding, not a second costume.
The circle hides the outfit and the scene. What remains is a tiny face. Direct for that, then make the fashion set separately.
You get free credits when you sign up, no payment required — enough to generate several pictures and see whether they are worth it. After that each generation costs credits.
No. It is a directed portrait for a professional profile, not an identity document.
10 free credits to start. A picture costs 2 credits and the premium engine 9. Review the total before generating a Shot or Set.
Compare the face, hair and details with your reference photos at full size and at the intended crop. Use a result only if it remains recognizable and fits its purpose. Likeness can vary; no usable-result count is guaranteed.
Create yours
Crop first. Then the Look. Then generate one matching wider photo for the rest of the brand.