Instant Photos

Professor Headshots
More Current Than Your Faculty Photo

Faculty photos are geological. Taken once, at hire, they sit on the department page while decades pass. Yours can be from this decade by the end of your coffee break.

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Professional professor headshot of a man in a blazer
Book-lined office selfie of a male professor before headshot generation
The selfie
Bio-ready
Professional professor headshot of a woman in a blazer
Lecture hall selfie of a female professor before headshot generation
The selfie
Bio-ready

The Photo Does Your Outreach While You Do Research

Academia pretends appearances don't matter, then runs entirely on them: the conference program, the departmental sidebar, the expert quoted on the news. A prospective PhD student choosing between two advisors sees two faculty photos before reading a single paper. One is crisp and current. One is a scan from 2009. The email goes to the first.

Getting a new photo has always meant chasing university photo services across a semester. Skip it: a selfie in your office, bookshelves and all, becomes a clean professional portrait in about a minute. Update the faculty page before the next committee meeting.

Where an Academic's Photo Appears

One photo serves the whole portfolio:

Your faculty page, found by every student and collaborator who googles you
Conference programs, keynote slides, and panel bios
Grant applications and lab websites
Book jackets and publisher author pages
Press requests, because journalists quote the expert whose photo they can run

How It Works

Step 1:

Upload a selfie

Step 2:

Our AI goes to work

Step 3:

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Professor Headshot FAQ

Who actually looks at a faculty photo?

Prospective grad students deciding which lab to email, journalists looking for an expert to quote, conference organizers building programs, grant panels putting a face to a CV, and every student choosing between two sections of the same course. It's the most-viewed photo of your career, and it's usually the oldest.

What should a professor wear in a headshot?

The blazer preset covers nearly every academic context, from faculty page to keynote slide. Full suits read administrative; you only need one if you're going into a deanship. The tweed is optional and, mercifully, not a preset.

I need a photo for a book jacket and a conference in two weeks.

Same photo works for both. The $5 download is full resolution, which is enough for print at book jacket size. Publishers ask for author photos at the worst possible time in the semester; a selfie in your office solves it between office hours.

What happens to the photo I upload?

It's processed to generate your headshot, and the images expire after 24 hours. No account is created and nothing is published anywhere. Only you get the link.

How much does it cost?

The watermarked preview is free, the full-resolution photo is $5. University photo services charge more, book weeks out, and schedule against your teaching load.

Publishing a book? See author headshots. Keynoting? There's a speaker headshot page. K-12 educators are over here.

Retire the 2009 Photo

One selfie in your office. Free preview, $5 for the full-resolution photo, print-ready for the next book jacket.

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