Corporate Headshots

The corporate headshot register

A corporate headshot does a narrower job than a LinkedIn photo: it has to read the same across a company about-page grid, a board bio, a conference programme, and a press release — institutional first, personable second. Where the LinkedIn Headshots pack leans approachable, this pack leans formal. Tailored suiting and structured blazers, composed posture, light placed for authority rather than warmth. The brief is the portrait a firm would commission for its leadership page, not the one you'd pick for a casual profile.

The pack works across three registers chosen to cover the main corporate contexts. A neutral corporate studio — clean grey-blue seamless, tailored blazer, a large soft key from one side — is the all-purpose register that drops cleanly into any company team page. A glass-walled modern office — frosted partitions, a mid-blue suit, broad window light — reads contemporary and credible for tech and professional-services firms. An executive floor — warm walnut panelling, boardroom depth, a sharply tailored senior suit, low-key gravitas — folds in the executive, CEO, and founder register where seniority is the point.

Technically this means half-length head-and-shoulders framing, a 2:3 portrait ratio that sits right in a directory grid or a printed board bio, soft directional light that models the face for dimension, and a controlled palette — navy, charcoal, ivory, walnut — that signals establishment without theatrics. Light placement carries most of the register: a large source close to the subject for the studied softness of a commissioned portrait, a measured shadow on the far cheek for dimension, a clean rim separating the figure from a graded ground. The output is a photograph of you, not an illustration of one. We also gave women strong representation across the three registers, including the executive seat — the search demand for women's professional headshots is real and the senior register is not a men's-only club.

What distinguishes a corporate headshot from a casual AI portrait is not the technology — it is the staging. Attire reads as decision: a sharply tailored suit carries a different weight than an open-collar blazer, and both carry a different weight than a knit. Backdrop reads as context: a walnut boardroom reads senior, a glass-walled floor reads modern, a clean seamless reads neutral and grid-safe. Every element here is a deliberate staging choice, so the result reads as a portrait that cost a corporate photographer's morning, because it was designed like one.

How to photograph yourself for a corporate headshot

The pack works from one photo. Better source photos produce better corporate headshots — the free preview shows you in 15 seconds whether the likeness is going to land before you pay.

1. Use even, indirect natural lightStand beside a window, facing it or at a 45-degree angle. Avoid overhead bulbs, phone flash, and direct sun — all flatten the face or throw harsh shadows that compete with the pack's studied corporate lighting.
2. Shoot front-facing at eye levelNo selfie-stick uplook, no overhead angle. Camera at eye level, slightly below if anything. The pack frames you head-and-shoulders in a half-length composition — an extreme angle fights that framing.
3. Use a plain, non-distracting backgroundA white wall, a soft-coloured wall, or a featureless indoor background. The AI replaces the backdrop with the corporate register — studio seamless, glass office, or walnut boardroom — and a busy source background makes the face harder to isolate cleanly.
4. Wear business attire if you canThe pack stages you in tailored suiting and structured blazers. Starting from a collared shirt, a blazer, or a neutral jacket in your source photo helps the result read as consistent rather than transplanted onto formal dress.
5. Upload 2 to 5 photos if you have themOne is enough. More varied angles — front, three-quarter, different lighting — sharpen the likeness. Upload them all at once; the pack uses all of them together.

Frequently asked questions

What does the output actually look like — is it photorealistic or does it look AI-generated?

Photorealistic. The output is a photograph of you in a corporate register — not illustrated, not cartoonish, not obviously synthetic. The pack stages you in tailored business attire with studied lighting across three registers: a neutral corporate studio on a clean grey-blue seamless, a glass-walled modern office, or an executive floor with warm walnut boardroom depth. The free preview tells you in 15 seconds whether the likeness lands on your face before you pay a cent.

How is this different from the LinkedIn Headshots pack?

Register. The LinkedIn Headshots pack leans approachable — smart-casual knits, window-lit offices, a city-skyline option — and is built for an individual profile photo. The Corporate Headshots pack leans formal and institutional: tailored suiting, structured blazers, a neutral corporate studio, a glass-walled office, and a senior executive-floor register with boardroom depth. Pick LinkedIn Headshots for your own profile; pick Corporate Headshots when the photo has to sit on a company team page, a board bio, or a press kit alongside other leaders.

What's the difference between the free preview and the paid pack?

The preview is one corporate headshot from your photo, shown live in about 15 seconds so you can judge the result before paying. The paid pack is nine headshots across three registers — neutral corporate studio, glass-walled office, executive floor — three portraits each, varied across crop, angle, and light. €9.99, ready in about 45 seconds.

Is this a good fit for an executive, CEO, or founder headshot?

Yes — that is exactly what the executive register is for. The third look stages you on a senior executive floor: warm walnut panelling, a long boardroom table receding behind you, a sharply tailored senior suit, low-key lighting for gravitas. It reads as the portrait a firm commissions for its leadership page or a board bio. If your context is specifically a pitch deck or VC press, the Founder Pitch Deck and Investor VC Partner packs have registers built around those surfaces.

Does the pack work well for a professional woman's corporate headshot?

Yes, and we built it to. Women are strongly represented across all three registers, including the executive-floor seat — the senior register is not staged as men-only. The pack puts a woman in tailored suiting and structured blazers in the corporate studio, and in the sharply tailored senior suit on the executive floor. The demand for women's professional headshots is real, and the formal corporate register serves it directly.

Can I use these for my company about page or team grid?

Yes — the neutral corporate studio register is designed for exactly this. It stages you on a clean grey-blue seamless with consistent soft key light, so several team members run through the same register read as a coherent grid rather than a patchwork of different photographers. The output is portrait-ratio and full-resolution, the shape a team page or directory listing uses. Note that narcis works one face at a time — it produces an individual corporate headshot, not a group photo.

Can I use these on my CV, resume, board bio, or annual report?

Yes. The output is portrait-ratio (2:3) and full-resolution — the shape that looks right on a printed CV, a board bio, an annual report, an email signature, or a directory listing. No watermark, no logo. The formal corporate register in particular holds up at the scale of a printed report.

How is this different from HeadshotPro, Aragon, or photoai?

The structural difference is delivery model. HeadshotPro and Aragon ask you to upload a training set of 10-20 photos and wait hours for a model fine-tune; the output can be excellent but the process takes a day and costs more. This pack takes one photo, streams a free preview in 15 seconds, and delivers nine corporate headshots in 45 seconds for €9.99. The trade-off is that single-photo likeness is harder than a fine-tuned model — the free preview exists precisely so you can verify the likeness before paying.

How is this different from running a 'corporate headshot' prompt through Stable Diffusion or Midjourney?

Text-to-image tools generate a person who matches your description, not a portrait of you. The Corporate Headshots pack uses your uploaded photo to anchor the identity — the output is you, in tailored suiting in a corporate register, not a generated stranger in a suit. The result is consistent across the nine headshots and grounded in your actual face.

What if I only have a selfie or a casual phone photo?

One good selfie is enough to start. The free preview shows you the likeness in 15 seconds — if it is off, the prep tips above are the fastest fix, usually lighting. Even, indirect light and a front-facing angle matter more than camera quality. Five mediocre photos do not beat one good one, but multiple well-lit angles do sharpen the result.

Can I use the output commercially?

Yes. The output is yours. You may use it for professional purposes — a company website, a board bio, press materials, a CV, a directory profile. See the terms for the full scope.

What happens to the photo I upload?

Your photo is processed on European servers. We use it to generate your preview and, if you buy, your pack of nine corporate headshots. We do not share it with third parties.

When the corporate headshot pack fits

• For a company about page or team grid where every leader's headshot needs to read consistent and formal
• For an executive, CEO, or founder portrait on a leadership page, in the senior walnut-boardroom register
• For a board bio, annual report, or investor-relations page that needs an institutional portrait
• For a business headshot that reads more formal than a casual LinkedIn photo — suiting and structured blazers, not knits
• For a professional woman who wants a corporate headshot in the formal register, including the executive seat
• For a conference programme, speaker bio, or panel page where the event's visual identity is corporate
• For a press release or media kit accompanying a company announcement or a leadership appointment
• For a professional-services profile — law, finance, consulting, accounting — where conservative business dress is the norm
• For a real estate agent, financial advisor, or insurance broker headshot on a brokerage directory listing
• For refreshing a leadership team's headshots to one consistent register without booking a corporate photographer for the whole office
• For a businessman or businesswoman portrait that has to hold up at the scale of a printed annual report

About narcis

Most AI portrait tools ship every pose, profession, era, and aesthetic in one giant catalog. The output looks like every other AI photo on the internet — a glaze over a stock face. Narcis goes the other way. One tool, one job: turn a photo of you into a portrait worth keeping. Each pack is hand-curated against actual references — paintings, photographers, registers — and tested on real faces before it ships. Free preview before you pay. Packs are one-time — no subscription to buy one; Studio, the unlimited composer, is optional at €12/month and every pack includes 30 days of it. No template generator. Built and run by one team, on our own infrastructure.