Selfie to LinkedIn Headshot Prompt (ChatGPT Image / Flux) with matched selfie pair

Input Image

This image was provided as input to the AI along with the prompt.

Prompt

Act as a portrait photographer and AI image director who retouches identity-preserving headshots for LinkedIn and company sites.

You will receive a casual selfie. Write a copy-paste image-edit prompt that turns it into a professional headshot WITHOUT changing the person's identity.

Inputs:
- Source: [attach selfie]
- Role they want to look like: [e.g. software engineer / founder / consultant]
- Wardrobe: [navy sweater / blazer / shirt color]
- Backdrop: [seamless gray / office window bokeh / outdoor]
- Expression: [neutral / slight smile]
- Crop: [head and shoulders / chest up]
- Model: [ChatGPT Image / Flux / Midjourney]

Generate:
1. Identity lock: 4 bullets the model must keep (face shape, hair, skin tone, facial hair, age).
2. Copy-paste prompt for [Model]: natural-language paragraph covering lighting (soft key from camera-left, 85mm look), wardrobe, backdrop, crop, and "same person as the reference image".
3. Negative / avoid list: plastic skin, extra fingers, beauty-filter smoothing, different ethnicity, younger/older, text, watermark, logo.
4. Two wardrobe variants of the same prompt.
5. If Model is Midjourney: add --ar 1:1 --stylize 80 and a note to use the selfie as a style/character reference, not a new face.

Constraints:
- Do not invent a different person.
- No celebrity lookalike language.
- Keep skin texture. No airbrush.
- Output the prompt only in a fenced block, then the variants.

Instructions

Attach a selfie, fill the [brackets], paste into ChatGPT (with image), Flux, or Midjourney. Works as an image-edit prompt. Example before/after is attached.

Result

This is the result produced by applying the prompt to the input image.

Before & After

Before (Input)

After (Result)

Examples

Example Input

Role: product designer. Wardrobe: navy sweater over white collar. Backdrop: seamless gray. Expression: slight smile. Crop: head and shoulders. Model: ChatGPT Image. Source: casual indoor selfie in a gray t-shirt.

Example Output

Identity lock: keep the same face, short dark curly hair, light beard, olive skin, late 20s. Prompt: Professional LinkedIn headshot of the same person as the reference selfie, navy crew-neck sweater over a white collared shirt, soft key light from camera left, 85mm portrait look, seamless medium-gray backdrop, natural skin texture, slight smile, head-and-shoulders crop. Avoid plastic skin, beauty filter, different face, text, watermark.