A professional LinkedIn profile picture from one selfie

Yes, as long as the photo still looks like you: LinkedIn’s profile photo guidelines say your photo must reflect your likeness. With IDPhotoBy, AI changes your clothing, background and lighting, and your features come from your selfie, though AI may change details. That’s why you see a free preview first; use only the photos that look like you today.

Your facial features come from your photo, but AI may change details, so check each photo before you use it. AI changes your clothing, background and lighting. With the optional likeness check, photos that don’t look enough like you are generated again, and you can judge a free preview before you pay anything.

You need just one selfie. A sharp phone selfie works best: you facing the camera, in even light, with nothing covering your eyes and only you in the picture, ideally showing your head and shoulders with a little space around them. It can be a JPG, PNG or HEIC file of at least 300 px and up to 8 MB. Upload your selfie to start.

Dress as you would for work in your industry, from a corporate look to smart casual. For the selfie itself, anything will do: AI dresses you in the outfit of the style you choose. There are 6 outfits: a formal suit (with a tie in the men’s cut), a suit, a light blazer, smart casual, a shirt or blouse, and knitwear, each in a men’s and a women’s cut. Browse the styles.

A good LinkedIn profile picture is a recent photo that looks like you, with your face clearly visible, no heavy filters, only you in the picture and a plain, non-distracting background. It is often the first impression recruiters get of you. You can choose from 11 backgrounds: studio backdrops in classic grey, white, light blue, warm neutral, grey gradient, charcoal and navy, a bright or a warm office, a city street or a park. A safe choice is a classic grey studio backdrop; the style gallery shows them all.

The free preview takes about a minute; after payment, 4 photos take a few minutes, 12 photos up to about 20 minutes and 36 photos up to an hour. Once you’ve paid, you can close the page: we email you a link when your photos are ready. Start with your selfie.

You get one free preview with a watermark; after that, packages of 4, 12 or 36 photos cost from US$9.99, paid once with no subscription. You pay in your local currency where we support it (otherwise in US dollars), or in the currency you pick on this page, and you see the final price before you pay. Compare the packages.

It depends on what you need: choose a photographer if you need an exact likeness in every detail, because AI may change details, and choose AI if you want professional photos from a selfie you already have, without booking a session. A photographer gives you a real photo shoot, with posing and lighting set by a person. With IDPhotoBy, you get a free preview in about a minute, then packages from US$9.99. Try it with your selfie.

They might, and whether you should say so depends on the platform or employer: some ask you to disclose AI editing, so follow their rules, as our terms for AI profile photos also say. AI may change details, so choose photos that look natural and like you. Our photos carry machine-readable metadata stating that they were edited with AI, and Google’s invisible SynthID watermark.

The LinkedIn file is a square JPEG of 800 × 800 px, already cropped to size. Each photo also comes as a CV file of 400 × 500 px, as 45 × 60 mm for print (531 × 709 px) and in the full size of 928 × 1152 px. You can mark favourites and download them, or everything, as a ZIP. Every package includes all these files for each photo; the packages differ in the number of photos and regenerations. Compare the packages.

Every package includes regenerations: 2 with 4 photos, 4 with 12 and 8 with 36. A regeneration creates a new version in the same style, and the previous one stays in your gallery. If a photo can’t be created or fails the likeness check, you get an extra regeneration for it. Details are in the terms for AI profile photos.

Yes: you may use the photos for your own personal and professional purposes, for example on your CV, in job applications and on your professional and social media profiles. Using the same photo everywhere makes you easier for your network to recognise. The rights are set out in the terms for AI profile photos.

In the UK, Ireland, Canada, Australia and Singapore, a photo on a CV usually isn’t expected, so in those countries the photos are best used on LinkedIn and other online profiles. Where a CV photo is common, use the 400 × 500 px file, or the 45 × 60 mm file for print. Make your photos from a selfie.

Your photos are processed by Google (Gemini API, paid tier) on our behalf; this can happen in any country. Google does not use them to train its models and keeps the request and the result for up to 55 days to detect abuse. We store the photos on our servers in the USA and delete them automatically — 72 hours after upload if you don’t buy, or 30 days after delivery if you do. Read the privacy notice for AI profile photos.