Headshot backgrounds: pick the right one for LinkedIn, your CV or your team
You choose the backgrounds before we create your portraits – from 26 studio, office and outdoor looks, or your team's own brand colour. Here is every option, with real results and a straight answer on which one to pick.
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Which background for what?
The short version: match the background to where the photo will live and what you want it to say. These six cover nearly everyone.
LinkedIn profile
Pick: blurred office or light studio
The office says "at work" without a word; light studio keeps your face crisp in LinkedIn's small circle. Both look at home next to the other profiles in your feed.
CV and job applications
Pick: white, off-white or light grey
Plain and light. Recruiters scan quickly, the photo sits next to text, and a clean background prints and photocopies without turning muddy.
Team and company pages
Pick: one background for everyone
Consistency matters more than the choice itself. One office or one studio colour across the whole team reads as one organisation. Teams can also use their own brand colour or image.
Executive, press and speaker bios
Pick: dark studio or black-and-white
Charcoal, black or a classic black-and-white portrait carries weight on a press page, a board profile or a conference programme.
Approachable and creative roles
Pick: outdoor, colour or Copenhagen street
Greenery, a coastal light or a soft colour feels warm and personal – good for therapists, coaches, authors, designers and founders.
Print and signage
Pick: light studio or a solid colour
For name badges, brochures and office walls a solid, even background crops cleanly at any size and matches printed materials.
All 26 backgrounds in the collection
Shown here on our two style models so the backgrounds compare like for like. Your own portraits are made from your selfies – same backgrounds, your face.
White and light studio
White, off-white, soft white with a wash of sunlight, Nordic grey, beige and taupe. The classic studio family – clean, timeless and the safest print choice.
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White
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Off-white
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Soft white, sunlit
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Nordic grey
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Warm beige
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Soft taupe
Soft colours
Sage green, dusty rose, misty blue, terracotta, mint, teal and chocolate brown. A touch of personality that still looks professional, and a quick way to match a brand palette.
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Sage green
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Dusty rose
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Misty blue
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Terracotta
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Mint
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Teal, sunlit
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Chocolate brown
Dark studio
Charcoal, black and a deep gradient. Dramatic and executive, with the face lit and everything else falling away.
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Charcoal
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Black
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Dark gradient
Office and architecture
A blurred modern office, a Scandinavian office with pendant lights, raw concrete, a library wall and a Copenhagen street. The look of a photographer shooting on location – without the location.
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Modern office
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Scandinavian office
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Concrete architecture
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Library
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Copenhagen street
Outdoor and nature
Soft greenery, tropical light and a coastal horizon. Daylight, warmth and an easy, approachable feel.
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Greenery
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Tropical light
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Coastal
Black and white
A monochrome portrait on white or on charcoal. Timeless, flattering and striking on a press page or a book jacket.
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Black and white on white
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Black and white on charcoal
Teams: your own colour or image
Teams can set an exact brand colour (any hex value) or upload their own background image, so every employee's headshot matches the website and the office signage.
Real customers, real backgrounds
Portraits our customers chose and shared, one per background family. All of them started as everyday selfies.
What makes a good headshot background
Whatever you pick, the same five rules decide whether the background helps or hurts.
- Nothing competes with your face. Plain or softly blurred. If a viewer notices the background first, it is the wrong background.
- Contrast with your hair and clothes. Dark hair on charcoal and a white shirt on white both disappear. Pick a background a few shades away from what you wear.
- Even light, no shadows. A studio-lit background has no hot spots or dark corners, which is why it crops cleanly to a circle or a square.
- Consistency across a team. On a team page, one background for everyone beats ten great individual choices.
- Match the platform. LinkedIn and company pages lean office and light studio; press kits lean dark and black-and-white; a CV stays plain.
Backgrounds per package
You pick the backgrounds and outfits when you order. Every background-and-outfit combination gives six portraits.
- Starter · $29
- 3 backgrounds × 3 outfits · 54 portraits
- Basic · $45
- 4 backgrounds × 4 outfits · 96 portraits
- Premium · $69
- 5 backgrounds × 5 outfits · 150 portraits
Which background colour is best?
For most people a light neutral – white, off-white or light grey – is the safest, and navy or charcoal the most authoritative. Soft colours like sage, misty blue and terracotta work when they sit a few shades away from your clothes and skin tone. Avoid strong, saturated colours unless they are your brand's.
What our customers say
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