How to Create Professional Headshots for Free Without Complex Photo Editing Software

Creating headshots has never been easier thanks to the advent of online tools and AI-powered solutions. In this post, we will explore how you can create a headshot for free without needing any photo editing software.

We will use a popular online tool, which you can access for free. You can also follow this guide to create a headshot effortlessly.

To create a headshot, we will:

Upload Your Image to the Selected Tool

For this tutorial, we are going to use https://pictureeditorai.com, an AI-based automatic photo editing software that requires minimal configuration.

Step 1: Create an account on https://pictureeditorai.com. After you have navigated to the tool, you should see a sign up button on the top right corner. Press that button and login with Google to create an account.

Step 2: Find an image you want to use as the reference image for your headshot. Tip: Use an image where you are centered and your face is clear and looking directly at the camera. Make sure your face is not too close to the camera so our algorithms can correctly find your face. Either drag and drop this into the image dropzone or click on the dropzone and find it in your file system. For this example we are going to use an image of a person.

Configure Headshot Settings

Step 3: This tools provides a couple of different settings when it comes to creating professional headshots. To view the settings you can configure, click the "Open Advanced Settings" button:

Step 4: Now it's time to configure the advanced settings. Before we do this, make sure you have headshots selected as the edit mode. With the headshots feature, we first need to choose which model we want to use. Currently we support the following models: instant_id_albedobase_xl. The properties for each model and their description are listed below

  • instant_id_albedobase_xl
  • width: Width of the output image in pixels
  • height: Height of the output image in pixels
  • guidance_scale: How heavily you want to weigh the prompt when generating your new image.
  • num_inference_steps: Number of denoising steps. Higher numbers generally result in higher fidelity results relative to the prompt but tweaking this to lower values can lead to better outcomes.
  • prompt: The input prompt for what style you want to generate.
  • ip_adapter_scale: How heavily you want to weigh the source image when generating your new image.
  • controlnet_conditioning_scale: How much weight to assign to the conditioning inputs - generally higher values work well.

    • Step 5: Its now time for us to choose our values. For this demo, we are going to choose the instant_id_albedobase_xl model and the following parameters:

  • width: 640
  • height: 640
  • prompt: a professional headshot of a person. 4k head photo, clear. person wearing a solid colored blazer, white shirt, and contrasting color tie. preserve hair color, preserve eye shape. good lighting
  • guidance_scale: 0
  • ip_adapter_scale: 1
  • num_inference_steps: 10
  • controlnet_conditioning_scale: 1

    • Our settings should look something like as follows:

    Create the Headshot and Save the Image

    Step 6: To create the headshot, we can now just press the "Edit Image" button. This process may take a few minutes.

    Step 7: To save the image, you can simply right click the image and press "Save Image As...". The result of the headshot is shown below:

    Creating professional headshots has become significantly easier to do with tools like this one. If you have any questions about any of the steps, feel free to send an email at contact@pictureeditorai.com