Everything about profile photos.
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Guides to getting a profile photo right — the platform specifications, what the rules actually say, and the mistakes that make a good photo fail at the size it's seen. Where a claim carries a number, the source is linked. Where the free option is the better one, we say so.
Written by Max Werner, who builds and runs PoseLab. About the author →
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What to wear for a LinkedIn photo
The display does the arguing here. What a circular crop at thumbnail size actually rewards, and why it is not the same list as a studio headshot.
10 min read
Are AI headshots allowed on LinkedIn?
LinkedIn's rules are about likeness and honesty, not about how the image was made. Where that line sits, quoted from the policy itself.
7 min read
How often should you update your LinkedIn photo?
Not on a schedule. The triggers that actually warrant a new photo, and how to change it everywhere in one afternoon.
6 min read
LinkedIn photo mistakes that cost you profile views
Eight things that make a profile photo fail, starting with the only one LinkedIn has published a number for.
7 min read
LinkedIn profile photo size and specs
The accepted sizes and file types, straight from LinkedIn's help pages — plus the framing the circular crop actually demands.
6 min read
Photo craft
How formal should your headshot be?
A suit in a field that stopped wearing them reads as a costume. Which register each field actually expects, and how to check for yourself.
10 min read
Patterns in photographs: what survives, what shimmers, and what steals the frame
A field guide to how cloth behaves under a camera: the seven bands of pattern, why display size decides half of it, and why a tonal paisley beats a pinstripe.
12 min read
What colour to wear in a headshot
No colour is good on its own. It is good against a particular background, on a particular person — and that arithmetic is learnable.
12 min read
How to take selfies that make good AI headshots
The uploads are the part you control, and they decide almost everything. Eight things to avoid, and how many photos actually helps.
7 min read
What to wear for a professional headshot
Clothing has one job in a headshot: not to be the thing people look at. The short answer to every part of that, and a map to the longer ones.
9 min read
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