Did you know you can use AI to create realistic images of yourself?
That’s possible thanks to AI headshot generators.
However, the problem is that most headshot generators are expensive.
In this post, I will show you two ways with which you can create free headshots.
Let’s start with the easiest option.
1: Use HeadshotMaster.io
HeadshotMaster.io is my favorite free AI headshot generator.
To create headshots with it, open it up, and click “Generate Now.”
Choose your gender:
Pick a style:
Choose your age range:
Select your hair color:
Choose if you wear glasses (and if you have a beard).
Then choose ethnicity:
Then upload at least one image of yourself:
Then click “Generate” and wait for about a minute or two.
After waiting, you’ll receive your headshots.
Here’s what my free AI headshots look like:
That’s pretty cool, right?
Those look somewhat realistic and clearly like me.
Of course, because those are free, the quality isn’t quite as good as with the paid ones.
For example, in the two above images, I look like a painting or a 3D character but not really like a real person.
Also, there’s another issue, that is, these headshots are not customizable.
If you wanted to change the background, style, etc., that wouldn’t be possible because HeadshotMaster is quite a limited headshot generator.
But that’s not an issue.
I will show you another way with which you can get more customizable headshots—that are still free.
2. Try ChatGPT + AIFaceSwap
Another way to make AI headshots is by doing it in three steps:
- Create a base image with ChatGPT (or any other free image generator.)
- Choose a real image of yourself.
- Face-swap the AI-generated image with your picture.
Let me show you an example.
First, let’s open up ChatGPT.
Here I’m telling ChatGPT to create an image of a man that looks like me. I’m being accurate with my description because I want this to be as close to me as possible.
As you can see, the above image doesn’t quite look like me. Here’s a real selfie for a comparison.
But that’s not a problem. It’s not supposed to look like me yet.
Next, let’s open up AIFaceSwap.io.
This tool allows me to use AI to take my real selfie, remove the face from that and naturally merge it with the AI-generated image.
Let’s try it:
If you do this, make sure you set the “Original image” to be the AI-generated image and the “Face image” as the real image of you.
This way the AI takes your face and merges it with the AI-generated image.
But now, let me show you my results…
Here’s the AI-generated face-swapped image of me:
To compare, here’s a before-after version:
As you can see, it’s not perfect but still pretty close.
My facial features are definitely there and you can clearly see it kind of looks like me.
But with this image, my hair and beard are way too dark.
Obviously, you can fix that by using a better prompt.
In fact, I would say try this at least 10-20 times with different prompts and selfies to find the ideal image.
My Honest Take
If I’m honest, these free AI headshots aren’t good at all. Those are a funny experiment/prank for someone, but that’s it.
If you actually want to be able to use these, you have to try the paid headshots that I’ve listed here.
Hope you liked it!
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