AirBrush Team Photos: A Consistent Workflow for Ten Staff Portraits

Start with a recognisable face

For a LinkedIn profile or company staff page, the goal is a clear photo that still looks like the person. Fix distracting lighting and temporary blemishes before considering face reshaping. An attractive thumbnail can hide waxy skin, changed teeth or a damaged glasses frame.

Use one well-lit, sharp portrait for the first pass. Heavy motion blur, clipped highlights and a very small face leave less reliable detail to work with. Taking a better photo can be faster than trying to reconstruct missing information.

Choose the right AirBrush product

AirBrush has separate web, mobile and Studio products. The help centre distinguishes them. The Magic Retouch page describes a Studio portrait workflow. Check your chosen edition before assuming the same controls or subscription apply.

A ten-photo team delivery workflow

1. Define one delivery specification. Agree on aspect ratio, pixel dimensions, background style and room above each head. Name files by staff ID and keep originals separate from approved exports.
2. Choose three pilot photos. Include a person wearing glasses, a darker or unevenly lit photo and a well-lit reference. Represent the actual skin tones in the set rather than calibrating on one face.
3. Edit and approve the pilot. Correct crop and exposure before applying restrained retouching in your chosen AirBrush edition. Record the chosen settings. Compare each result with its own original; uniform style must not mean making everyone the same skin colour.
4. Process the remaining seven. Use the approved pilot as a visual reference, not a reason to apply identical strength blindly. Check hair, glasses, teeth and face-to-neck colour at 100%. Put failures into a separate rework folder.
5. Review the team grid. Arrange the ten approved exports together at the website’s display size. Align crop and eye height, compare brightness and check names against staff IDs. Deliver the ten files plus an approval sheet; leave unresolved photos out rather than quietly substituting a flawed export.

A useful handoff sheet has six columns: staff ID, source filename, export filename, issue found, correction and approval. This catches swapped names and missing images as well as retouching defects.

A simple acceptance checklist

• The face remains recognisable: no changed jawline, eye shape or expression.
• Skin retains texture; the face and neck have consistent colour.
• No bright outlines around hair, broken glasses or artificial teeth.
• The crop works at the destination’s displayed size.

Reject the export if any of these fail. For a single damaged edge, manual correction may be more efficient than regenerating the whole portrait. For repeated blur, reshoot rather than accumulating repairs.

What if the result looks too polished?

Lower or remove the retouch and compare again at the final display size. Keep freckles, permanent marks and the original expression unless the subject specifically requests a change. For a profile photo, accurate representation matters more than a dramatic before-and-after.