LinkedIn Casual Professional Headshot Master Prompt: Brown Shirt, Bright Desk
Turns one selfie into a bright, approachable desk portrait in a brown button-up and white tee, with a soft white-shelf background and your own face left untouched.
Variables
{Platform}{setting}{expression}{overshirt_color}{glasses}{aspect_ratio}Actual output, by model
Real output this exact prompt produced — not a description of what it might do.
[Image output, square, high resolution.] Woman with long, light brown, softly wavy hair past the shoulders, thin round gold glasses, broad smile showing teeth. Rust brown micro-dot button-up over a white crew-neck tee, open collar. Framing runs from head to roughly the waist. Body is nearly front-on with only a slight head tilt. A silver laptop edge fills the bottom right corner and is only mildly soft. Background: white open shelving with light wood boards, with a ceramic bottle, small potted plants and beige storage boxes all still clearly recognizable. The blur is gentle, and a plant is visible at the right edge.
[Image output, wide landscape, roughly 16:9, not square.] Woman with shoulder-length dark brown wavy hair, visible freckles, thin round gold glasses with a blue-tinted coating, large smile showing teeth, head tilted noticeably. Rust brown micro-dot shirt over a white tee. Tight crop that cuts off at the upper chest. No laptop is visible. Background: white shelving with light wood boards, several small plants, grey ceramic vases and a beige box. Everything on the shelves is fairly sharp, with very little blur.
[Image output, square.] Man with short, wavy dark brown hair, light stubble with a mustache and goatee, thin gold glasses with slightly rounded lenses, soft smile with teeth barely showing. Rust brown micro-dot button-up over a white crew-neck tee. Tight head-and-shoulders crop, with the shoulders running off both side edges. A silver laptop edge sits softly out of focus at the bottom right. Background: heavily blurred white shelving with light wood boards, green plant leaves on the left, a framed picture and a vase on the right, all hard to make out.
Which model runs this best
Chat GPT followed the scene instructions best: square output, a softly out-of-focus laptop in the bottom right, and the shelving blurred until nothing distracting remained. It cropped tighter than requested and gave a more reserved smile than the "showing teeth" the prompt asked for. Nano Banana got the square format, the teeth smile and the laptop but left the shelf props nearly sharp, and Qwen returned the wrong aspect ratio, dropped the laptop and barely blurred the background.
Restyles your selfie into a friendly, well-lit desk portrait without changing your face.
How To Use
- Upload one sharp selfie taken at eye level in soft light.
- Paste the prompt and fill in the six variables.
- Generate a few versions and keep the one that looks most like you.
- 1.If you wear glasses, upload a selfie with them on and set {glasses} to “Keep the glasses from my selfie” so the frames don’t get redrawn.
- 2.A selfie with a slight head tilt helps the relaxed pose carry over.
- 3.If the laptop looks odd, delete that sentence and regenerate.
FAQs
Where this prompt breaks
Known failure modes we hit while testing, so you can spot them before they waste a run.
Qwen returned a wide landscape image (roughly 16:9) instead of a square
Nano Banana kept the bottle, plants and boxes clearly recognizable, and Qwen left the whole shelf almost sharp
Qwen left the laptop out entirely, and Nano Banana's laptop took up a large part of the corner
ChatGPT gave a subtle smile with teeth barely visible
Nano Banana framed down to about the waist, and ChatGPT cropped tighter, running the shoulders off the frame
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Not every profile photo should look like a corporate headshot. If you work from a laptop, pitch clients, or run a one-person business, a relaxed, well-lit desk portrait often feels more believable than a stiff studio shot. This prompt builds that look around your own face: a seated, slightly forward pose, an open-collar brown shirt over a white tee, and a bright shelf-lined room melting into soft blur behind you.
It’s aimed at freelancers, remote workers, consultants and creators who want to look approachable first and polished second. The wording locks your identity at the top, then handles scene, outfit, light and lens in separate blocks, so you can change the shirt color or setting without disturbing anything else.
What makes it useful:
- A dedicated glasses variable, so frames stay yours instead of being redrawn.
- A bright, high-key light setup that flatters most skin tones and keeps small avatars readable.
- Six variables for platform, setting, expression, shirt color, glasses and crop shape.
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