Keep your commercial portfolio and casting-platform profiles current between photographer sessions. Choose a pack, upload one clear selfie, and generate each image in about 60 seconds.
Modeling headshots follow different rules than corporate ones. Agencies want to see what you actually look like right now, and a changed haircut or color means your photos are stale. A traditional session runs $400-$1000 and books out weeks ahead. Portreya generates professional looks on your real face in about 60 seconds, which makes it practical to keep commercial portfolios and casting profiles current, while your unretouched agency digitals stay exactly what they should be: real photos.
Keep casting-platform profiles, comp cards, and your commercial portfolio consistent and current.
$400-1000
1-2 weeks
From $4.99
Under 60 seconds
One clear photo of your face. No studio required.
Pick the professional context you need, then generate your finished headshot after checkout.
Use them on Models.com, Casting Networks, Backstage, your Instagram portfolio, and your agency website.
Modeling headshots follow different rules than corporate ones. Agencies want to see what you actually look like right now: clean digitals with minimal makeup, natural light, simple clothing, and no heavy retouching. A clear beauty shot for the comp card, a smiling option, and current measurements matter more than artistic lighting. If your look changes, your photos are expected to change with it.
Honest answer: it depends on the use. AI headshots work well for keeping your commercial portfolio broad, testing looks before a paid shoot, e-commerce and lifestyle casting profiles, and staying current between photographer sessions. Where they do not belong: agency digitals and polaroids that are explicitly required to be unretouched and recent. Submitting a generated image where an unedited photo is required misrepresents you, and casting teams treat that the way they treat any outdated photo. When a submission allows professional photos without restrictions, a realistic AI headshot that looks like you today is acceptable.
A changed haircut, color, or weight means your digitals are stale, and stale digitals cost castings. The practical rhythm: refresh digitals whenever your look changes, refresh the professional shots in your book a few times a year, and keep casting-platform profiles matching the person who walks into the room.
Yes. Portreya preserves your face structure, expression, and recognizable features. Pick the most natural results; a photo that does not look like you today costs castings.
No. Digitals and polaroids are explicitly required to be recent and unretouched, so they must be real photos. AI headshots belong in your commercial portfolio and on casting-platform profiles where professional images are allowed.
Casting platforms accept professional-quality photos. What matters is that the image accurately shows your current look; check each platform's photo policies for specifics.
Portreya does not use customer uploads to train models and deletes uploads after a defined retention window. Read the privacy policy for specifics.
Digitals, also called polaroids, are simple unretouched photos in natural light that show your current look: front, profile, full length, minimal makeup, fitted basics. Agencies use them to see you as you are, so they should never be heavily edited or generated.
For commercial portfolio breadth and casting-platform profile photos where professional images are allowed, yes, pick realistic results that look like you today. For agency digitals or any submission that asks for unretouched photos, no, use real photos.
Clean and current: even light on the face, simple background, minimal retouching, and a crop from the chest or shoulders up. It should read clearly as the same person who shows up to the casting.
Whenever your look changes noticeably, and on a regular rhythm even when it does not. Working models refresh digitals every few months because agencies treat their recency as a signal of professionalism.
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