Headshot Background Remover — Free, Fast & Private
A clean headshot raises perceived professionalism more than almost any other small change to your profile. But getting one professionally shot is expensive, and DIY phone shots tend to have messy backgrounds — a bookshelf, a kitchen wall, a window with light coming through it.
MiniPx fixes the background problem in 30 seconds: drop your selfie, pick the HD tier (RMBG-1.4), download a transparent PNG cutout. From there, drop it onto a clean colour in any editor — neutral grey is the standard LinkedIn-friendly choice, but a brand colour works too if you're building a personal site or company directory page.
Hair detail is the test that breaks most tools
The single biggest tell of a bad cutout is the hair. Old colour-key tools leave jagged edges; some AI tools over-smooth and you lose the natural wisps. RMBG-1.4 (the HD tier in MiniPx) is trained specifically on human portraits and handles fly-aways, curls, and partial transparency correctly. If your test cutout still looks bad on hair, the photo is likely too low-resolution or too out-of-focus — re-shoot at a higher res before retrying.
The full headshot workflow
For a finished LinkedIn-ready headshot: (1) remove the background here, (2) crop to 1:1 centred on the face, (3) optionally use the passport tool if you want bigger formal "head and shoulders" framing with a specific backdrop colour, (4) resize to 400×400 (LinkedIn's display size), (5) compress under 100KB for instant load.