Professional
Author portraits, no photographer
The back flap of a book has one photo and it has to carry the whole person: thoughtful, a little mysterious, lit by a single window or a soft box, eyes just off the lens. Author portraits from the Studio follow the fine-art convention publishers ask for, in color or black and white.
You want a jacket photo that looks like it was taken by a literary photographer, ready before the catalog deadline. With the Studio Portrait preset selected, each run turns your selfies into author portraits lit and framed the way a studio would light and frame them. Keep the best take, retouch it lightly, and reuse the same file every time a new profile, program or press page asks for author portraits.
4 free credits — one Standard run of any tool. No card needed.
Made for when
- The publisher needs a hi-res author photo and the deadline was yesterday
- Your only photo is a smiling holiday snap that is wrong for a thriller
- You want black and white for the jacket and color for the website
- A newsletter, a festival program and a bookshop poster all want it
Step by step
- 01
Open AI Photoshoot, attach your selfies, select Studio Portrait
Everything about author portraits except your face comes from this preset, and the face comes from you.
AI Photoshoot - 02
Give the best result a light Face Retouch
A restrained pass that evens skin and brightens eyes without the plastic look of a filter.
Face Retouch - 03
Re-light the photo for the mood you want
Change the key light, the shadows and the color of the scene without changing the person.
Relight Photo
