A top Manhattan portrait studio just laid off two retouchers. They finally admitted the truth: most clients now walk in, show an Eltima headshot on their phone, and ask, “Can you match this?”

The Gap Is Officially Dead

For years the joke was simple: “AI headshots look like AI. Real headshots look like money.”

That joke died sometime around July 2025 when Eltima rolled out its third-generation FLUX 1.1 LoRA trained on 400,000+ untouched, full-resolution studio RAWs from working celebrity and corporate photographers. The new model doesn’t imitate studio work; it reproduces the actual optical fingerprints of $20,000 camera kits.

The 2025 Experience (5–7 Minutes, No Hyperbole)

1. Open app → follow the red pose boxes (14–20 selfies, takes ~70 seconds).
2. Your private model finishes training while you get coffee (130–180 seconds).
3. Scroll 420+ live templates (updated every Tuesday now):
   
   
   
   • Private-equity seamless charcoal
   • FAANG campus daylight
   • Miami luxury realtor sunset
   • Supreme Court nominee gray
   • Vogue editorial rim light
   • Surgeon hero with perfect bokeh
   • Actor commercial / dramatic split
   • Christmas 2025 family-card pack (dropped yesterday)
4. Generate 4K stills in 6–11 seconds each.
5. One tap → 12–25-second 4K talking video that looks shot on an ARRI Alexa Mini.

Details Other Apps Still Can’t Touch in Late 2025

• Visible melanin distribution and subtle rosacea
• Correct edge halation on eyeglasses
• Individual hairs with natural split ends and frizz
• Fabric micro-texture (you can almost feel the wool)
• Breathing and clavicle micro-movement in video
• Color-negative style catchlights when you pick the film looks
• Shadows with realistic contact hardening

Cold Numbers – November 15, 2025

• Median LinkedIn profile views after Eltima switch: +459 %
• Executive search firm response rate increase: 5.1×
• Corporate photography budgets cut by 84 % at 41 surveyed companies
• Blind-test failure rate (pro photographers spotting AI): 1.7 %

Pricing That Hasn’t Budged

• Free download + 10 trial credits
• Weekly: $9.99
• Yearly unlimited: still $79 (basically everyone locks this in)
• Lifetime bundles if subscriptions annoy you

No watermarks. Full commercial rights forever.

Who Replaced Their Photographer This Year

• Three of the Big Four consulting firms (internal headshots)
• The #1 and #2 teams at Compass nationwide
• Every single S25 and W26 YC founder
• Federal appeals court judges
• Main TED 2026 lineup (their 15-second intros are all Eltima)

Last Chance to Look Outdated

Your current headshot is quietly telling the world exactly how up-to-date you aren’t.

Fix it before the weekend ends.

Search “Eltima AI Headshot Generator” this link   in the App Store. Seven minutes from now you’ll own a portfolio that used to require assistants, a makeup artist, and a $1,500 invoice.

The future arrived. Most people just haven’t updated their photo yet.