Free LinkedIn Headshot Generator
Upload one clear photo of your face and get a profile picture back that still looks like you. Your face stays your face. The lighting and the background stop being an accident.
Two a day, free, and there is no paid version waiting at the second step.
The default fixes the light and the background and leaves your clothes alone. The other three change what you are wearing as well.
Two a day. You will not be asked for an account or an email.
The photo was the easy part.
A good photo gets you the click. Staying in the feed with something worth reading is the part that takes actual work. Oiti is an AI ghostwriter trained on what you have already published, so the drafts come back sounding like you.
7 days free.
How the LinkedIn headshot generator works
Three steps, no account, and no email at any point.
- 1
Upload one clear photo of your face
Front-facing, eyes visible, enough light on your face. JPG, PNG or WebP. Your browser resizes it before anything is sent.
- 2
Pick a look, or leave it alone
The default cleans up the light and the background and does not touch your clothes. Corporate, tech and creative change what you are wearing too.
- 3
Compare, then download
The result sits next to your original so you can judge whether it still looks like you, with a 48 pixel version underneath. That small one is the size most people will ever see. If it works at that size, it works.
Are AI headshots allowed on LinkedIn?
Yes, with one condition, and the condition is the whole answer.
LinkedIn's profile photo guidelines say your photo must reflect your likeness. They go further than most people expect: an illustration, a caricature, or another artistic rendering of yourself is explicitly fine. What gets removed is a photo that is only a logo, an emoji, a landscape, an animal, a flag, a baby photo, or somebody else's likeness, which includes stock photography and celebrities.
The community policies say the same thing from the other side: do not use an image of someone else, or any other image that is not your likeness, for your profile photo.
So the rule is about who is in the picture, not about how the picture was made. An edited photo of you is fine. A face the model invented is not, and it does not help that the model invented it from your selfie if what comes out is a stranger.
This is why the tool works the way it does. It edits the photo you upload instead of drawing a person from scratch. If it cannot find one clear face in your upload, it stops before spending anything. After the edit, it compares the two images and refuses to hand back a result that no longer looks like the same person.
That last check is a model checking a model, so treat it as a floor rather than a promise. The tool is built to keep your face. It cannot certify that it did.
Which leaves the judgement with you. Your original sits next to the result on this page for that reason. If a colleague would not recognise you from it, it has gone too far, whatever the guidelines technically permit.
What LinkedIn actually asks for
LinkedIn recommends 400 by 400 pixels for a profile photo. The frame is square, and every surface on the platform displays it as a circle. That is the entire technical specification, and almost nobody writing about headshots bothers to state it.
The output here is 1024 by 1024, well above the recommendation, which leaves room for LinkedIn's own resizing. Square, so nothing important gets cropped when it becomes a circle.
The specification is the easy part. What people get wrong is what happens after LinkedIn shrinks the photo.
The thumbnail test
Your profile photo appears large exactly once, on your own profile page, mostly to you. Everywhere else it is a small circle: beside your comment, in a search result, in someone's notifications, in the connection request they are deciding whether to accept.
At that size the detail is gone. What survives is the shape of your head against the background, and whether your eyes are visible.
That is why a busy background fails. A bookshelf, a conference banner, a window with the light behind you: all of it turns to noise at 48 pixels and your face stops reading as a face. A plain or gently blurred background keeps the photo legible once it is small.
So the result here arrives with the small versions next to the big one. Look at those first. If the 48 pixel circle still reads as you, the photo works. If it reads as a grey blob in a shirt, change the photo before you change the style.
What to upload
What you give it decides most of the result.
- One face, yours, filling a decent share of the frame.
- Facing the camera, eyes open and visible, no sunglasses.
- Even light on your face. Window light is good. A ceiling light directly above you is not, and neither is a bright window behind you.
- Whatever expression you would actually use. Neutral is fine.
- Keep your glasses on if you wear glasses. That is your likeness.
- Avoid group photos, heavy filters, motion blur, and anything shot at arm's length from below.
A phone photo taken against a plain wall next to a window beats a professionally shot photo from nine years ago.
Frequently asked questions
- Is this actually free?
- Yes. Two generations a day with no account and no email, and what you get is not a watermarked preview of a better paid version. There is no paid version. The daily limit exists because each generation costs us real money to run.
- Are AI headshots allowed on LinkedIn?
- Yes, as long as the photo still reflects your likeness. LinkedIn's guidelines even permit an illustration or artistic rendering of yourself. What is not allowed is a photo that is not you, which covers stock imagery and invented faces. The full answer, with the sources, is further up this page.
- Do you keep my photo?
- Only for as long as it takes to make the headshot. Your browser resizes the photo, uploads it under an unguessable name, and the job picks it up from there. Both the photo and the result are deleted within a day by a rule we set, whether you came back for them or not. There is no account here, no gallery, and no record of you afterwards.
- Can ChatGPT generate a LinkedIn headshot?
- It can produce something. Whether you should use it comes back to the same question: the result has to still be you. General-purpose image models drift on faces because nothing in the request is telling them to hold still, and on a profile photo that drift is the problem. The prompt here is built around holding your face in place.
- What size does LinkedIn want a profile photo to be?
- LinkedIn recommends 400 by 400 pixels, square. This gives you 1024 by 1024, which is well above that.
- How many can I make?
- Two a day from one connection, on a rolling 24-hour window.
- Why does it not look exactly like me?
- Usually the input. A photo that is dark, angled, partly obscured or low resolution gives the model less of your face to hold onto, so it fills the gaps. Try a brighter, straighter, closer shot, and try the default look before one that changes your clothes, since changing less drifts less. There is an automatic check that refuses results which have gone badly wrong, but it will not catch the subtle ones, which is why your original sits right next to the result. If it is not you, do not use it. A photo that is not quite you is worse than the imperfect one you already have.
- Can I use it anywhere other than LinkedIn?
- Yes. It is a square professional headshot. Nothing about it is locked to one platform, and the same file works for a company bio, a speaker page or an email signature.
- Why is there no HEIC support?
- Chrome cannot decode HEIC on a canvas, and the resizing here happens in your browser. Converting an iPhone photo to JPG first takes one tap in the share sheet, which is cheaper than shipping a decoder to everyone who visits this page.
A better photo is the cheapest fix on your profile.
One upload and then you can stop thinking about it. The expensive part comes after: showing up with something worth reading, week after week, without it eating your Wednesday. That is what Oiti is for. It learns how you actually write from what you have already posted, so the drafts read like you typed them rather than like a tool filling in a template.
7 days free.
Your headline sits directly under this photo and does at least as much work. The LinkedIn headline generator is the other half of the same fix.