The term “headshot” (or alternatively, “head shot”) primarily refers to professional profile images found on social media platforms, images featured on the ‘About Us’ page of a corporate website or promotional photos of authors, actors, models and more. Basically, a headshot is a digital portrait that focuses on capturing the essence of the person.
Several years ago, headshots were solely meant for actors and models with the casting directors scouring through hundreds of photos to search for the perfect face for the role in question. But, in today’s highly connected world, a headshot is extremely handy for anyone who is looking to market themselves personally or professionally.
In this article we will be exploring a free AI-based online tool that automatically crops Faces from uploaded photographs and quickly generates headshots for you. All that you are required to do is upload the picture and lean back and relax while the headshots are generated.
The face cropping is done using the TinyFaceDetector and SSDMobileNet models from face-api.js. You must remember that all the processing happens on your device since the images are never sent to any server. Hence, the are no privacy and security concerns regarding the uploaded pictures.
Working:
1. Click on this link to navigate to Magic Crop. You are not required to register or sign up for a free account to use this tool.
2. Just drag and drop the photo on to the web page and in a couple of seconds, it will automatically be cropped for headshots.
3. You can also upload multiple pictures and generate all the headshots in one go.
3. Once the headshots are created, they will be displayed on the screen as well as downloaded automatically to your system in JPG format.
Closing Comments:
Overall, Magic Crop is a fine tool that can be used to upload any photos and automatically generate headshots from them. It saves a lot of time and effort that you would have spent in doing this manually.
Click here to navigate to Magic Crop. To access the source code on GitHub, click here.
Are you in search of a tool that utilizes AI to revive faces in old photographs? You can explore GPFGAN, a free and practical face restoration tool that we have covered in a separate article. This tool enhances photos containing indistinct faces from vintage photos and outputs pictures with clear faces after processing. Click here to read about this tool.
