AI LinkedIn headshots in batik

In Jakarta and Kuala Lumpur a batik shirt is what you wear to work. Plenty of offices ask for it on a Friday, and plenty of people wear it the rest of the week too. It is not costume and it is not occasion wear. It is a shirt.

If it is what you wear to work, it is what your LinkedIn headshot should show.

Ask an AI headshot tool for one and you will usually get one of two things: a plain shirt with the pattern quietly removed, or something that reads as a holiday shirt — big, loud, and nothing like the cloth anyone actually owns.

The pattern is the garment

This is the part that gets lost, and there is a reason it does.

Tools like this one are told to keep clothing simple, because patterns are what make generated clothing look fake. A busy print picks up garbled marks and invented logos, and it does it in a way that reads as artificial instantly. So the safe instruction — and it is a sensible one for a blazer — is plain, one colour, no pattern.

Applied to batik that instruction removes the whole point. Batik is the wax-resist pattern. A plain batik shirt is a plain shirt.

So the rule is switched off for the garments that carry their own cloth. When you ask for batik, nothing in the set is asking the model to simplify what you are wearing.

The motifs are named, not left to chance

"Patterned shirt" gets you a different invention every time. The set asks for particular motifs instead — parang, kawung, mega mendung, truntum — along with plainer variations: a tonal repeat, a mandarin collar, a plain yoke with a patterned body, a narrow band of pattern down the placket.

That is what stops a set of eight looking like eight photographs of one shirt.

This is also the honest caveat. Whether a model renders a named motif correctly is a question about the model, not about the words, and we would rather somebody who wears batik tell us than assume it. That review has not happened yet, which is why this page is not live.

What else you choose

The colour is yours, and so is everything around the shirt: the room, the light, how close the picture is cropped, how much retouching you want. If you wear glasses, tick that box — it is worth ticking even when your photographs show them, because they are one of the first things these tools drop.

How it works

Upload 8 to 20 ordinary phone photographs. Choose how you want to look, from pictures rather than words. Pick your favourites out of a spread of previews, and download those at full size.

What it costs

$25.00 for eight HD headshots. $35.00 for sixteen HD headshots. $49.00 for twenty-four HD headshots. Paid once, up front. More pictures later are $4.00 each.

Your photographs

Deleted after 30 days, along with everything trained on them. Not archived, not anonymised, and never shown to anyone else.

Questions

Will it look like me?

That is the only thing this is really judged on. Your face is learned from what you upload, so variety across those photographs matters more than how good any one of them is.

Can I choose the motif?

Not individually. You choose batik and the set is spread across several motifs, so the pictures differ from each other. Picking one specific pattern is not something we can promise to render faithfully, and we would rather not promise it.

Is a batik shirt formal enough for LinkedIn?

Where it is worn, it is business dress. That is the whole reason it is here.