A resume photo framed the way applications expect

Whether to put a photo on your résumé depends entirely on where you are applying. In much of Europe and Asia a photo is standard. In the US, UK, Canada, and Australia it is usually discouraged, because employers avoid anything that could introduce bias into screening. Follow the local convention.

Head and shoulders, centred, plain light background, formal or business attire, and a restrained expression. It should look like a document portrait rather than a social profile picture.

Requirements vary by country and application form - 35 × 45 mm is the common European size and 30 × 40 mm is used for a Japanese rirekisho. Generate at the highest resolution available and crop down to whatever the form specifies; starting large and cropping always beats upscaling a small image. Our free headshot resizer has both of those sizes built in, along with the passport formats, and it runs entirely in your browser.

No. Passport, visa and government ID applications require an unaltered photograph taken by a camera, and submitting a generated image can invalidate the application. Those are a different job entirely - use our free passport photo size tool to crop a real photograph to the exact official dimensions instead. It gets the measurable part right, but only the issuing authority decides whether a photo is accepted.

One works; three improves it; three is also the most a shoot accepts. For a resume photo the most useful second frame is a straight-on one, because that is the framing the finished photo needs and the model leans toward what it is shown.

Two to five minutes, since the whole set generates in parallel. Fast enough that a job posting closing tonight is not a reason to attach a cropped holiday photo.

Likeness is the only property we score, and on an application it is not optional - you will be meeting the person who looked at the photo. Every render is compared against your uploads, misses are removed and refunded before delivery, and a whole shoot that scores low is re-run free on a different engine.

Images the likeness check rejects are removed and their credits restored automatically. A low-scoring shoot qualifies for a free re-run. Eligible purchase refunds follow the Refund Policy.

No. Uploads produce your CV photo and nothing else, every provider in the path is contractually bound to the same rule, and files are permanently erased after 30 days or immediately if you press delete.

The good ones read as ordinary studio photography. We are also straightforward about it: every delivered image carries embedded content credentials identifying it as AI-generated, which is both honest and increasingly a legal requirement.

Resume Photo draws between 6 and 15 credits per run, depending on the model and length chosen in the form.

Generated output from Resume Photo can contain visual, audio, or factual errors. Review each result before publishing, and upload only material you are authorized to use. Where the form accepts a reference image, supported files are JPEG, PNG, WebP up to 5 MB each.

An upload is stored against your own account, not pooled with other people's. Deleting the account removes it: the control is in Settings under Security, the request is confirmed by email, and the erasure removes the stored objects it owns. How long anything else is kept, and which processors handle it, is stated in the privacy policy.

Every paid plan includes a commercial licence for what Resume Photo makes; the free tier is for personal use.

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