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Photo shoots from your own selfies

Upload two or three real photos, paste the identity lock, then pick your shoot — studio headshot, rooftop founder portrait, coastal lifestyle, or a full magazine cover. They look like you, not a stock model who bought your haircut.

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Headshots that actually look like you

Photorealistic photo shoots from your own selfies, in ChatGPT. For your website, LinkedIn, or pretending you are on the cover of Vogue.

ChatGPT Identity lock included 4 shoots 6 copy-paste prompts

What's inside

This whole thing lives or dies on what you upload. Give it three good references and it gives you back you in a nice suit. Give it one blurry group photo from 2019 and it gives you a stranger with your haircut.

Open the ChatGPT desktop app and either point it at your downloads folder to grab the selfies, or just upload two or three directly. You want:

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One front-facing

Looking straight down the lens, neutral expression, whole face visible. This is the anchor shot.

2

One smiling

A real smile with your teeth showing. Teeth are one of the first things it gets wrong, so give it something to copy.

3

One three-quarter or profile

Head turned slightly. This is what stops the results looking flat and pasted-on.

Recent — taken this year
Unfiltered and well lit
Beauty filters or heavy edits
Sunglasses, group shots, dim light

Filtered photos are the number one reason this fails

If your references have already been smoothed and slimmed, that is the face it learns. You end up with a photorealistic image of a filter. Dig out the unedited ones, even the ones you do not love.


Paste this at the start of every single prompt. Every one. No exceptions.

Without it, ChatGPT smooths your face into an attractive average — bigger eyes, smaller nose, perfect teeth, ten years younger, no pores. Technically lovely. Not you, and everyone who knows you can tell instantly.

IDENTITY LOCK Use the uploaded photos as identity references for the same real person. Create a photorealistic image that remains unmistakably her, not a similar-looking model. Identity fidelity is the highest priority. Preserve her exact face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, eye colour, nose, lips, smile lines, teeth, jawline, age, skin tone, and natural facial asymmetry. Retain realistic pores, fine lines, and skin texture. Keep her current hair length, colour, hairline, and natural texture unless specifically instructed otherwise. Change only the clothing, pose, location, composition, and lighting. Do not beautify, de-age, reshape her face, enlarge her eyes, perfect her teeth, smooth her skin, change her body proportions, or give her a generic influencer or stock-photo appearance.

Good news — I have already baked it in

The four shoot prompts below each start with the full identity lock, so you can copy any one of them and paste straight in. This standalone copy is for when you write your own shoot idea. Put it first, then describe the shot.


Four complete shoots. Copy the whole block — identity lock included — and paste it in the same chat as your reference photos. Swap the outfits, colours and locations for whatever suits your brand.

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Classic professional headshot

The one for LinkedIn, your about page and speaker bios. Forest-green suit, studio light, 85mm look.

IDENTITY LOCK Use the uploaded photos as identity references for the same real person. Create a photorealistic image that remains unmistakably her, not a similar-looking model. Identity fidelity is the highest priority. Preserve her exact face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, eye colour, nose, lips, smile lines, teeth, jawline, age, skin tone, and natural facial asymmetry. Retain realistic pores, fine lines, and skin texture. Keep her current hair length, colour, hairline, and natural texture unless specifically instructed otherwise. Change only the clothing, pose, location, composition, and lighting. Do not beautify, de-age, reshape her face, enlarge her eyes, perfect her teeth, smooth her skin, change her body proportions, or give her a generic influencer or stock-photo appearance. THE SHOT Create a premium professional headshot of the woman in the reference photos. She is wearing a sharply tailored deep forest-green suit over a soft ivory silk camisole, with delicate minimal gold jewellery. Give her a relaxed, confident posture, direct eye contact, and a warm closed-mouth half-smile. Place her in a sophisticated warm off-white photography studio with a subtle architectural shadow. Use soft window-style lighting, an 85mm portrait-lens look, shallow depth of field, and crisp focus on her eyes. Composition: vertical 4:5, waist-up portrait with clean negative space. The result should feel intelligent, warm, capable, modern, and approachable. It must look like a genuine premium personal-brand photoshoot, with natural skin texture and no excessive retouching.
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Colourful founder portrait

Rooftop, golden hour, cobalt suit, real smile. This is the one for press features and podcast artwork.

IDENTITY LOCK Use the uploaded photos as identity references for the same real person. Create a photorealistic image that remains unmistakably her, not a similar-looking model. Identity fidelity is the highest priority. Preserve her exact face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, eye colour, nose, lips, smile lines, teeth, jawline, age, skin tone, and natural facial asymmetry. Retain realistic pores, fine lines, and skin texture. Keep her current hair length, colour, hairline, and natural texture unless specifically instructed otherwise. Change only the clothing, pose, location, composition, and lighting. Do not beautify, de-age, reshape her face, enlarge her eyes, perfect her teeth, smooth her skin, change her body proportions, or give her a generic influencer or stock-photo appearance. THE SHOT Create a high-end editorial founder portrait of the woman in the reference photos. She is wearing a modern cobalt-blue tailored pantsuit over a simple black top with understated gold earrings. Pose her naturally, standing with one hand relaxed and a genuine, joyful smile. Set the portrait on a stylish contemporary rooftop terrace during golden hour. Include softly blurred architectural glass and a subtle city skyline without recognisable landmarks. Use luminous golden-hour rim lighting with soft frontal fill. Photograph her from approximately mid-thigh up with a 70mm portrait-lens look. Composition: vertical 4:5. The photograph should feel energetic, distinctive, sophisticated, warm, and human, not like a generic corporate stock photo.
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Relaxed lifestyle portrait

Seated, off-camera, coastal light. Good for the middle of a sales page where a headshot would feel stiff.

IDENTITY LOCK Use the uploaded photos as identity references for the same real person. Create a photorealistic image that remains unmistakably her, not a similar-looking model. Identity fidelity is the highest priority. Preserve her exact face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, eye colour, nose, lips, smile lines, teeth, jawline, age, skin tone, and natural facial asymmetry. Retain realistic pores, fine lines, and skin texture. Keep her current hair length, colour, hairline, and natural texture unless specifically instructed otherwise. Change only the clothing, pose, location, composition, and lighting. Do not beautify, de-age, reshape her face, enlarge her eyes, perfect her teeth, smooth her skin, change her body proportions, or give her a generic influencer or stock-photo appearance. THE SHOT Create a beautifully art-directed but natural lifestyle portrait of the woman in the reference photos. Place her in an airy, design-led coastal hotel lounge in Western Australia. Use pale limestone, warm oak, cream linen textures, and a subtle glimpse of ocean through large windows. Dress her in an elegant rust-red silk blouse with softly rolled sleeves, tailored cream trousers, and minimal gold jewellery. She is seated casually on the edge of a sculptural cream chair, looking slightly off-camera with a warm, thoughtful smile. Use soft late-afternoon window light and a realistic 50mm-lens photography style. Composition: vertical 4:5, three-quarter seated portrait. The mood should feel creative, thoughtful, calm, approachable, and successful without shouting about it. Avoid exaggerated luxury, resort cliches, or influencer styling.
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Fashion magazine cover

Entirely unnecessary and completely worth it. Swap the cover lines for your own before you paste.

IDENTITY LOCK Use the uploaded photos as identity references for the same real person. Create a photorealistic image that remains unmistakably her, not a similar-looking model. Identity fidelity is the highest priority. Preserve her exact face shape, forehead, hairline, eyebrows, eye shape and spacing, eye colour, nose, lips, smile lines, teeth, jawline, age, skin tone, and natural facial asymmetry. Retain realistic pores, fine lines, and skin texture. Keep her current hair length, colour, hairline, and natural texture unless specifically instructed otherwise. Change only the clothing, pose, location, composition, and lighting. Do not beautify, de-age, reshape her face, enlarge her eyes, perfect her teeth, smooth her skin, change her body proportions, or give her a generic influencer or stock-photo appearance. THE SHOT Create an ultra-photorealistic, high-fashion magazine-cover portrait of the woman in the reference photos. Dress her in a dramatic ivory tuxedo-inspired suit with satin black lapels and sculptural gold earrings. Give her an upright, confident pose, direct eye contact, and a strong but subtle half-smile. Her hair should look polished but natural, with gentle movement from a studio fan. Use a seamless muted dusty-rose backdrop with a subtle tonal gradient. Light the portrait with a sculpted beauty-dish key light, soft fill, and controlled edge lighting. Composition: vertical 2:3, mid-thigh portrait with generous cover-ready space around her head and shoulders. Add this exact cover text: VOGUE [YOUR NAME] [YOUR TAGLINE — e.g. AI WITHOUT THE ICK] [YOUR SECOND COVER LINE — e.g. THE NEW RULES OF LEADERSHIP] Use elegant, high-contrast editorial typography. Keep every word correctly spelled and ensure no extra text appears. The masthead may sit partially behind her hair. The final image should feel bold, intelligent, modern, a little rebellious, and worthy of an international fashion magazine, while keeping her face completely authentic.

Make them yours

The outfits and locations are just variables. Swap forest green for whatever your brand colours are, swap the Western Australian coastal lounge for your actual city, swap the suit for the thing you would genuinely wear. Keep the lens, lighting and composition lines — those are what make it look photographed rather than generated.


First results are often nearly right and slightly wrong. Here is the repair prompt, then the things worth knowing before you put any of these on a website.

Regenerate this image with substantially stronger identity fidelity. The previous result changed the subject's face. Match the uploaded references more literally, especially her eye shape and spacing, nose, mouth, teeth, smile lines, jawline, age, hairline, and natural asymmetry. Do not create a beautified interpretation or a similar-looking model. Keep the existing outfit, setting, pose, composition, and lighting, but correct the face so she is immediately recognisable as the person in the references.

It will still drift

Even with the identity lock, faces come back smoothed, de-aged or subtly reshaped. Run the correction prompt. Sometimes it takes three goes. If it keeps producing a stranger, your reference photos are the problem, not the prompt.

Check the boring details before you post

Hands, teeth, earrings, buttons, and any text in the image. Cover lines are the classic disaster — a beautifully lit portrait with VOUGE across the top. Zoom in before you publish.

Do not use these where a real photo is required

Passports, verification, ID, anything legal or journalistic. This is a generated image of you, not a photograph of you. Website, LinkedIn, speaker deck, podcast cover: fine. Anywhere someone is relying on it being a real capture: no.

Only do this with your own face

Or someone who has clearly said yes. Uploading a client's or a colleague's photos to generate images of them is not a grey area, it is just a no.

Keep the references current

New haircut, new glasses, went grey on purpose — the results follow the references, not the you of today. Re-upload when you change something, otherwise you will be introducing yourself at events as the woman from the photo.


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