Everything customers ask before they generate.
Upload 5 to 8 recent selfies, pick a style (Corporate, Creative, Healthcare, etc.) plus your preferred outfit, lighting, and background, and the AI generates 6 professional headshot variations in about 2 to 3 minutes. You preview all 6, pick your favorites, optionally add retouching, and download clean 2K files. No subscription — pay only when you generate.
Yes — that's the whole point. The AI heavily weights your uploaded reference photos when learning your face, so the more representative your uploads (varied expressions, angles, good lighting), the closer the match. The first photo you upload counts the most, so lead with your favorite. We intentionally preserve real skin texture and your distinguishing features, including freckles, beauty marks, and asymmetries — these aren't filter-smoothed dolls; they're you.
5 to 8 photos works best. Crop tightly to your head and shoulders, face a window for natural light (not overhead lighting — it casts shadows under the eyes), and use a rear camera if possible since selfie cameras are wide-angle and slightly distort the face. Avoid heavily filtered or low-resolution shots — blurry inputs give blurry results.
Your first 6 headshots are free to preview. Keep the ones you love for $14.99 each (Realistic) or $17.99 (Glow Up Bundle: realistic, polished and glam versions of the same photo). Want more rounds after the free 6? $3.99 unlocks them. No subscriptions, no monthly fees.
About 5 to 10 minutes start to finish. The actual AI generation runs in 2 to 3 minutes. Picking favorites, choosing your retouch level, checking out, and receiving the final retouched files at delivery takes another few minutes. The fastest customers go from upload to final download in under 7 minutes.
Every delivered headshot is a high-quality 2K JPEG (1792 × 2400 pixels) suitable for LinkedIn, company directories, conference badges, press, and most professional uses. Files arrive in your inbox AND are available on-screen for direct download right after checkout.
Yes. Your uploads are used only to generate your headshots. We do not share them, sell them, or use them to train any AI model. Your reference photos and generated files are stored only as long as needed to deliver your order. If you'd like your data deleted at any time, email kristi@kristinasherk.com and we'll remove it.
Absolutely. You receive full personal and commercial usage rights to every headshot you purchase. Use them for LinkedIn, your company website, business cards, speaker bios, podcast guest bios, conference programs, press kits, dating apps — anywhere a professional photo belongs. The only thing we ask is that you not misrepresent the photos as something they aren't (e.g., government ID photos still require an actual photograph).
The first batch of 6 headshots is paid for by us. It's for you to preview the type of headshots and the realistic results we strive so hard to produce. We allow two free SINGLE regenerations. Tap the refresh icon on any individual headshot to regenerate just that one. If you want to try a different style, a $3.99 'try more styles' fee is required. This protects us from users who generate tons of headshots, but don't intend to buy any.
Generation Headshots was built and prompt-engineered by Kristina Sherk — a professional photographer with 20+ years of editorial and commercial portrait experience (clients include Refinery29 and Getty, with retouching on Hollywood campaigns and magazine covers). Most AI headshot tools are built by engineers and marketers; this one is built by someone who actually knows what makes a headshot look real, flattering, and professional — not plastic, AI-glossy, or 'off.' We deliberately preserve skin texture and distinguishing features, support realistic medical scrubs for healthcare professionals (with customer-pickable scrub colors), and tune every prompt with photographic intent.
You get a full, no-questions-asked money-back guarantee. If you're unhappy with your delivered headshots for any reason — they don't look like you, they don't fit your needs, you change your mind — email kristi@kristinasherk.com and we'll refund you in full. No hoops, no satisfaction surveys, no fine print. The whole point is that you walk away with a headshot you actually love.
The worst sign of an AI-generated headshot is plastic, dewey skin and vague, lifeless expressions. Look for a generator that stresses extremely realistic skin and expressions. Don't fall prey to bundles of headshots you didn't want and won't use. Look for per-image pricing, and free previews so you can test before committing. The best tools are built by photographers who understand lighting and posing — not engineers guessing at what makes a headshot work. GenerAItion Headshots meets all of the above criteria with a 100% money-back guarantee.
Realism depends more on who built the prompts and retouching pipeline around it rather than the underlying AI model. That's why so many try generating an AI headshot and fail because it 'just didn't look like me.' Engineer-built headshot generators tend to produce smooth, plastic AI-skin; photographer-built tools prioritize real skin texture and preserving unique features. GenerAItion Headshots is built by Kristina Sherk, a headshot photographer with 20 years of professional experience. All of her knowledge has been integrated into her in-depth prompts which accompany your reference photos.
Look for these features: preview first, pay-later pricing so you never buy blind, realistic skin texture instead of the plastic AI look, and photos that actually look like you rather than your cousin. Avoid any tool requiring you to buy a bundle before you see results, and be skeptical of tools that only show hero example photos of models. GenerAItion Headshots is free to preview for the first 6 generated shots and only charges for the specific headshots you choose to buy.
Most "free" tools have hidden costs — watermarks, signup walls, credit card requirements, or usable resolution locked behind a paywall. GenerAItion Headshots offers six free previews with no credit card and no signup, and you only pay ($14.99–$17.99) for the specific headshots you want to download. If none of them look like you, Kristina covers the cost for you to try it and you don't pay a cent.
Generating AI headshots has real computing costs, so completely free tools are rare and usually limited by watermarks, low resolution, or trial caps. GenerAItion Headshots lets you generate and preview six high-resolution headshots free with no credit card, but yes they are watermarked — you only pay if you want to download the ones you love. Fair trade: Kristina pays for you to preview them first, then there's a small fee to keep the ones you like.
Aragon has invested heavily in training its AI models, which produces consistent professional-looking results. However, like most engineer-built generators, Aragon can produce the smooth uniform "AI skin" look that some viewers spot as unnatural or generic. Their headshots can also drift your identity towards "AI generic pretty." GenerAItion Headshots takes a different approach — built by an actual 20-year headshot photographer, it preserves identity 100% and insists on rendering real skin texture (pores, freckles, natural imperfections) so your headshot looks like a real photo of you, not a polished AI avatar.
The more reference photos you upload, the better your results. Use five to eight clear, well-lit selfies from your phone, taken in different conditions (inside, outside, big smile, serious, different angles). This variation significantly helps our face mapping create shots that truly look like you. Avoid heavy filters, sunglasses, hats, extreme profile shots, and low-resolution photos. The clearer and more varied your references, the more the AI-generated headshots will actually look like you.
Realistic AI headshots depend on three things: high-quality uploaded reference photos, a generator that preserves natural skin texture instead of smoothing it into "AI plastic," and prompts written by someone who understands professional lighting, posing, lens choice, angles and backgrounds. Most tools nail one of these; few nail all of them. GenerAItion Headshots was built specifically to solve all those issues, and offers six free previews so you can see the difference before you pay.
Yes, most AI headshots have telltale signs like overly smooth skin, smoothed hair texture, and drab expressions that look "off." Well-made AI headshots preserve real skin texture and small natural imperfections that read as authentic. If your headshot has real pores and honest, activated expression, it will pass as a real photo to almost everyone.
ChatGPT, Midjourney, and other general AI image tools can generate a "headshot-looking" image, but the results rarely look enough like you to pass the smell test. They invent a doppelgänger who vaguely matches your description. This is due to the lack of identity details only one image can contribute to a final headshot. Dedicated headshot generators use your actual reference photos to preserve your likeness, and photographer-built ones apply professional lighting, posing, and retouching principles on top. For a headshot that's actually usable on LinkedIn, use a professional tool, trained on your face which uses multiple reference photos, not just one.
AI headshots today are starting to drift towards a very generic look that one can spot from miles away. Subtle "AI tells" like plastic skin, expressionless eyes or generic backgrounds give an AI-generated look immediately. The tradeoff is that AI headshots are dramatically more affordable and faster than a real shoot — you can't direct expressions in real time, but you can regenerate as many times as needed. For most professional uses (LinkedIn, staff directories, speaker profiles), a well-made AI headshot is more than good enough, as long as it actually looks like you.
Google's Gemini and similar general-purpose AI models can generate professional-looking headshots, but they lack the specialized training in headshot lighting, posing, and lens choice that a photographer-built generator provides. GenerAItion Headshots uses advanced AI models under the hood and layers 20 years of professional photography expertise on top — prompt engineering, retouching pipelines, and quality controls a raw model can't do alone. That's what separates a photorealistic image from a usable professional headshot.
Email kristi@kristinasherk.com and I'll get back to you personally — or just try a session, it's backed by a full money-back guarantee.