The guest book
4.9 average across 2,134 verified reviews — from a community of 12,847+ professionals. Real selfie in, real headshots out.
“Compliance makes us keep client-facing photos current, and I'd been dodging the studio for two years. One phone selfie on a Sunday; 32 options with coffee. Three went straight to the bin — one had a hand doing something anatomically ambitious — but the keeper looks like me after a proper night's sleep. It's on the bank intranet now. Nobody has asked questions, which in private banking is the highest compliment.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“I figured I'd get one decent photo out of it. I ended up using four — LinkedIn, the agency site, a conference bio, and the speaker card I'd postponed for months. Full honesty: two of the 32 had that too-smooth AI skin, and one invented earrings I don't own. The rest read like a proper studio session. My clients haven't noticed anything, which is exactly the point.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“The hospital directory still showed my residency photo — fifteen years and two haircuts ago. Uploaded a selfie between consultations, picked the white coat, and the set was waiting after my last patient. Two collars sat oddly. The one I chose looks like the doctor I try to be at 8 a.m., not the one I am at 8 p.m.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Airlines are picky about crew photos. The shirt details came out correct — I checked the epaulets twice. It's now in my licence file and nobody blinked.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Every listing portal wants the same headshot, and mine were three different haircuts across five sites. Of my 16, six were instantly usable, a few had teeth that definitely weren't mine, and one background looked like a rendering. Retakes fixed two. For $29 versus what a studio quoted me, I'll take that math — four stars, one held back for the teeth.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Twenty-two years at the same pharmacy and never once a proper photo for the practice website. My daughter set the upload going while I made tea. I found the result slightly glamorous, if I'm honest — but the patients say it looks like me on my kind days, and I can live with that.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Between client sprints there is no afternoon for a photographer. Paid, uploaded one selfie, picked two outfits, and reviewed the set on the train home. Two of the 32 leaned corporate-catalogue; the rest were genuinely me. The one on my proposal deck has outlived three template redesigns.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“I brief photographers for a living, so my bar was unfair. Still ended up swapping my byline photo for one of these. The lighting reads editorial, not passport.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“The faculty page photo predated the pandemic and one entire beard. I treated this as an experiment: one selfie in, n=32 out. Two failures with glasses reflections, several acceptable, one that my wife declared 'finally, you'. Peer review passed. It's on the department site.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Clients find me through Instagram but book me through the website, and those two versions of me finally match. Took one morning. The beach backdrop was a bit much — the plain one won.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Our org chart got a redesign and suddenly everyone needed matching photos. Mine came back in 20 minutes; 4 of 32 had artifacts — one earlobe situation I can't unsee, some over-smoothed skin. Retakes sorted the one I actually needed. Solid tool, imperfect batch, honest four stars.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“The firm's site launch was Thursday. I did this Wednesday night at the kitchen counter. Nobody on the design team asked where the photo came from, and I didn't volunteer it.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“I've art-directed enough shoots to know what studio light costs. This got most of the way there for the price of lunch. The retouch flirts with too-clean on a few frames, but the one I kept has real texture. My LinkedIn finally matches my portfolio's taste level.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Board deck due Monday. Headshot sorted by Saturday breakfast. That's the review.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“I came in ready to hate it on principle. Kept three photos and my principles. The backdrop options are more restrained than most human photographers I've hired.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Clinic website, school directory, one conference badge — one selfie covered all three.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“A chef's photo has one job: not looking like a mugshot after service. The whites came out correct, buttons and all. Two frames gave me hands that have never held a knife — those went in the bin, the third went on the restaurant site. Four stars; kitchen standards are unforgiving.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Parents check the clinic page before they trust you with their kids. My old photo was grainy and stern. The new one is the version of me that does the Friday puppet voice. Worth the 20-minute wait.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Airline ID standards are stricter than passport rules. First pass: two great, several fine, one with a fourth stripe I have not earned. A retake got me a clean set. Four stars — accuracy matters when a uniform is involved, and it needed that second pass.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Night shifts don't leave daylight for photographers. Did this at 3 a.m. post-shift; picked the result two coffees later. It looks calmer than I've felt in years, which is what patients need to see.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Author events kept using a photo from my thirties. I am not in my thirties. One selfie, the bookshelf backdrop — appropriately on the nose for publishing — and the set arrived before my train home. One frame gave my blazer an extra button; the one I chose is now on two festival programmes.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Grant portals, lab site, conference systems — each wanted a photo and each had a worse one. Standardised on one of these. The lab coat frame looked more 'me' than my actual lab coat does.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Colleagues abroad see the profile before they read the papers. My English is better than my old photo suggested. From one selfie I got 32 frames; a few too polished, two just right. The difference in how conference emails address me since is not my imagination.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“I tell clients their photo is their first coaching session with the world. Mine was ten years stale — physician, heal thyself. Fixed in an evening. The slightly-too-perfect frames I skipped; the honest one converted two discovery calls in its first month.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Partner promotion announcement needed a photo by Friday. It was Wednesday. The math worked: 20 minutes of generating beats three weeks of scheduling.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“I see hundreds of LinkedIn photos a week for a living, so I know the tells — the vacation crop, the wedding crop, the 2015 crop. Mine was the 2015 crop. Two of my 32 had oddly identical smiles; the rest were varied and genuinely usable. The one I picked reads 'will answer your email', which is the brand.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Practice website refresh. One selfie after clinic. The tie survived the AI intact.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Property portals shrink your face to a stamp, so clarity beats artistry. Half my set was portal-ready; a few frames had that smoothed-out look and one repositioned my necklace entirely. Retook, kept two, moved on. Four stars — does the job, watch the jewellery.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Investor updates go out with faces on them now, apparently. Generated mine the night before our raise announcement. One frame had startup-stock-photo energy — deleted — the rest were fine. Kept one, shipped the update.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“University systems, journal submissions, two conference committees — every one wanted 'a recent photograph' and every one displayed a different decade of me. I did this on a Sunday between grant reviews, with the same rigour I'd want from a first-year: one selfie in, full set out, results triaged. Of 32, I'd call five excellent, twenty adequate, and a handful uncanny — one pair of glasses appeared from nowhere, which as someone who actually wears glasses I found funny rather than annoying; my postdoc found it funnier. The excellent five now live on every system that asks. Consistency, finally, and nobody had to book a photographer through procurement.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Deal announcements wait for nobody's photographer. Generated on Tuesday, announced on Thursday. The suit frame passed our comms team's silent judgment, which is the only review that counts.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Law firm websites are a museum of photos taken the year each partner made partner. Mine was carbon-dated to two office relocations ago. I paid the $49, uploaded exactly one selfie from my desk, and had 32 options before my next billable block. Two made me look aggressively airbrushed, one relocated my pearls, and I flagged both through the retake button out of pure litigator instinct. But four were court-website appropriate, and the one now on the firm page has survived scrutiny from opposing counsel, two paralegals, and my mother — which is more vetting than most exhibits ever get.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Our annual report went to print with a photo of me from three directors ago — same person, different era. This year there was no budget line for photography and no afternoon to spare. One selfie in my office, the plain backdrop, about twenty minutes. A couple of frames were too polished for nonprofit work — donors can smell gloss — but I found one that looks like someone you'd trust with a grant. The board approved it without comment. In this sector, silence is a rave.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Clients in this industry judge the suit before the contract. The navy came out sharp, the watch stayed mine, and the frame on my chambers profile has already been screenshotted by one artist's manager. No complaints.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“I ghost-approve headshots for clients weekly, so doing my own felt like a busman's holiday. Two frames had press-release energy; the one I kept has an actual expression. It's on three campaign decks now.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Postings move faster than embassy photographers. Between handover briefings I uploaded one selfie, chose the grey backdrop for protocol reasons, and had a full set the same evening. One frame gave me a flag pin I've never owned — deleted, for diplomatic accuracy. The rest were sober, correct, and slightly better rested than I have been since the posting began. My official page and my alumni profile finally show the same person.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Rotations mean new ID badges constantly. This beat the hospital photo booth by miles.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“The firm rebranded; forty partners needed photos; I refused to schedule forty studio slots. Piloted this on myself first. The result is on the letterhead. Rollout pending.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Annual report deadline. One selfie, 32 options, one approved by IR. Done.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Patients meet my photo months before they meet me. The old one was stern in a way I'm not. Chose a frame with actual warmth in it. Bookings by name have gone up — small sample, but I'll take it.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Company portal migration meant everyone re-uploaded profiles. Mine came from one selfie at my desk; two frames had the collar doing origami, the rest were clean. Picked one, approved, migrated.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Ran this like a code review. Input: one selfie. Output: 32 frames. Six rejected — two hand artifacts, one impossible shirt seam, three uncanny-valley skin. Accepted: one, now on GitHub, LinkedIn, and the company wiki. Verdict: ships with known issues, but ships. Four stars.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“The department insisted on updated photos before the accreditation visit. I resisted, then did mine in the taxi queue. The white coat frame was correct down to the collar; one alternate draped a stethoscope like a scarf, which entertained my registrars for a week. The correct one hangs on the ward board now.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“As a designer: the type on their site annoys me. The photos don't. Kept two.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Book jackets are cruel: the photo outlives the face. Mine was two novels old, and the third novel is due at the printer with a face I no longer carry. From one selfie I received thirty-two little strangers, of whom perhaps six were me, and one — one — was the me I would like readers to imagine reading. The rest had that lacquered quality of hotel art, competent and unlived-in. I chose the sixth. My editor asked which studio I had gone to, and I told her the truth, and she did not believe me, and we have agreed to leave it there. It is the finest review I can give.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Quota doesn't wait for photographers. New photo live before Monday's pipeline review.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Bid documents want a face beside the credentials. The charcoal backdrop frame looked composed enough to sit next to the renders. One alternate melted my earring into my jaw — the profession makes you notice edges.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Legal directories update annually; my photo hadn't since I made GC. Twenty minutes, one selfie, and the frame is now filed with three directories. One version had a tie pattern from nowhere — noted, discarded, moved on.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Conference season means twelve submission portals, each demanding a photo, each displaying it at a different crop. My old photo was from my undergraduate graduation, which reviewers apparently noticed. I paid the $29 tier — grad student budget — got 16 frames, and triaged them like data: two outliers (a phantom lanyard, plastic skin), nine acceptable, five good. The winning frame has been through four portals and one poster session. Supervisor's only comment: 'finally.'”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Sprint demo credibility starts with the profile photo on the invite. Regenerated mine between standups. Two frames over-polished, one just right — shipped it to Slack, LinkedIn, and the org chart in one afternoon.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Bylines need faces that sources can trust and editors can print. I've dodged photographers for years — occupational habit; the people I write about photograph me first. One selfie in my kitchen, the plain grey backdrop, and by evening I had options. I'll be straight: the over-retouched frames were unusable for news work, where a face should look like it has missed sleep and filed anyway. But three frames kept the lines around my eyes and the crease the last decade put between them, and one of those is now on the masthead. The lines matter. They're evidence, and I don't publish without evidence.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“I prototype trust for a living, so I stress-tested this: uploaded a mediocre selfie on purpose. Output exceeded input by a margin I found professionally humbling. One frame had six fingers' worth of ambition — the rest, clean.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“I reject candidate photos all day: the gym mirror, the wedding crop, the 2019 hairline. Couldn't keep using my own 2019 hairline. The frame I picked passes my own screening rubric, which felt satisfying to verify.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Campaign launch, new team page, zero photographer budget after the media buy. One selfie each side of lunch. Two frames were catalogue-smooth; the keeper has my actual smile lines. Approved by the one stakeholder who matters: my mother.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“I light faces for a living, so I expected to be offended. Some frames earned it — skin like colour-graded marble, a catchlight physics would reject, the kind of gloss I spend whole edits removing. But two frames had believable falloff and a shadow edge I would have set myself, given a flag and twenty minutes nobody on a documentary budget has. I keep those for festival submissions, where the person who shot the film should not look worse-lit than the film. The irony of an AI photographing a documentarian is noted, filed under running jokes, and, at this price, forgiven.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Press cards expire; photographers in three time zones don't align. Did this from a hotel on 4G. One frame invented a lapel pin — killed it; correspondents don't wear allegiances. The clean frame is on two accreditation systems now.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Chambers profile updated between hearings. The wig-free version of me, finally on record.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“Field seasons ruin photo plans; my faculty photo showed a sunburn from 2023. Generated indoors, mercifully. One frame had expedition-catalogue energy; the one I kept looks like I answer emails, which grant committees prefer.”
BeforeAfterBasic pack
“Residency photos are taken at orientation, when you still believe in sleep. Three years later I updated mine between shifts. A couple of frames were too polished for someone on call; the one I chose looks tired in a trustworthy way.”
BeforeAfterProfessional pack
“The station's headshot queue was six weeks. Mine took one lunch. On-air by Friday.”
BeforeAfterExecutive pack
“Patients pick practitioners by face more than CV — I've seen the clinic analytics. Mine now looks like someone whose hands you'd trust. Two frames had gym-poster energy; skipped those.”
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