"The AI-generated results are unnervingly accurate, like someone extracted the professional version of me that exists."
JB
Jeremy B.
Trustpilot · LinkedIn refresh
Dating photos that earn the right swipe
Upload 10 selfies. Get a hand-picked set of dating-app photos in under 90 minutes. Polished, approachable, and built to land in the first three photos of your Hinge, Bumble, or Match profile.
Built by Joshua Albanese · 20+ years behind the lens · 15,000+ studio sessions
Real customer transformations
Drag to see the photographer's grade in action
Selfie input on the left. Aurawave output on the right. Same person, no retouching after the grading step.
Allison · LinkedIn refresh
Phone selfie at home, mid-coffee. Delivered headshot in 47 minutes.
Carla · Real estate broker
Garden selfie with glasses on. The grading step matched her glasses, eye color, and skin tone.
Joshua · Founder portrait
Wedding-day phone shot. Fortune-500 ready output.
Real Aurawave customers, real session output. No retouching applied after the grading step.
Sample dating headshots
The first three photos that earn the right swipe
Approachable expressions, soft natural light, varied settings. Built for the apps where you actually need to stand out.
How it works
Get your headshots in minutes, not days
Three steps. Phone-friendly upload. Hand-picked delivery. No studio appointment, no wardrobe prep, no half-day blocked off.
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1 Upload
Upload 10 selfies
Phone photos are fine. Mix up the angles, expressions, and outfits. Take them in the last year so the AI grades you, not a younger you.
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2 Generate & grade
The AI builds and grades your photos
Every shot is scored against a working photographer's checklist. Lighting, eyes, sharpness, identity match. The bad ones get tossed before you ever see them.
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3 Delivery
Hand-picked set in under 90 minutes
Every photo passed before it reached you. Most orders finish in less than an hour. Download, share, set as your LinkedIn profile photo, done.
Get my headshots
If it doesn't look like you, we redo it. No questions, no fine print.
Why this matters
Your photo decides whether they swipe right
On Hinge, Bumble, and Tinder, the first photo gets 0.4 seconds. The wrong shot ends the conversation before it starts. The right one earns a profile open and a message back.
It earns the open
A polished first photo doubles your profile click-through. Approachable expression, soft light, real you, no overproduced studio look.
It looks like the real you
No catfish. No filtered-into-oblivion. The same hair, skin, age, and smile that shows up to the first date. Confidence built on truth, not on Photoshop.
It works across every app
Hinge, Bumble, Match, Tinder, Coffee Meets Bagel. One session, multiple looks: smiling outdoor, casual indoor, dressed-up dinner. Mix and match your profile order.
Why Aurawave
Photographer-built, not algorithm-dumped
Other tools generate 100 mediocre photos and make you sort through the rejects. Aurawave runs every photo through a working photographer's grading rubric and only delivers the keepers.
Real Aurawave output
Hand-picked from a customer session
Aurawave vs. hiring a photographer
Same result. A fraction of the time and cost.
A traditional headshot session costs about $250 for one hour. Here's how Aurawave stacks up.
With Aurawave
Recommended
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Done from home
Yes
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Time
Under 90 minutes
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Photos delivered
Hand-picked set
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Outfits and looks
Multiple included
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Backgrounds
Your choice of scene
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Cost
From $XX
Hiring a photographer
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Done from home
No, in-studio shoot
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Time
2 to 3 work days
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Photos delivered
5 to 10 per session
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Outfits and looks
1 to 2 outfits
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Backgrounds
1 backdrop
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Cost
$250 and up per hour
Founder & photographer
Joshua Albanese
Built by a working photographer
20+ years behind the lens. 15,000 studio sessions in the rubric.
Joshua spent 20+ years behind the lens. He ran a top-10 US headshot studio in Chicago from 2007 to 2024. He saw the AI category shipping photos that looked like models, not the real people who paid for them.
Aurawave is the fix. The same checklist he uses on studio shoots, baked into the grading layer. The AI is the camera. The photographer is still in the room.
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20+
Years behind the lens
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15K+
Studio sessions
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F500
Client roster
Photographed for
Trustpilot
Stripe
Google
Spotify
asana
Dating photo FAQ
Questions about dating photos
The most common questions we hear from people refreshing their dating profiles.
Will my date be able to tell my photo is AI?
Not when it is built from your real selfies. The same hair, skin, age, and smile show up to the first date. The catfish problem is when the photo lies. Aurawave's grading step kills any photo that does not look like you before delivery.
What kind of photos work best as the first photo?
Smiling, eye contact with the camera, soft natural light, and a single subject. Aurawave defaults to that combination because it consistently wins on Hinge and Bumble research. Avoid sunglasses, hats, group shots, and over-edited filters.
Can I get different settings for variety in my profile?
Yes. Aurawave delivers a mix: indoor casual, outdoor natural light, and a dressed-up dinner look. Most users put the brightest smiling outdoor first, a casual second, and a dressed-up third.
Will this work for Hinge, Bumble, Match, and Tinder?
Yes. The crops and styling work across all four. Hinge and Bumble surface single-subject portraits first, so we default to those. Tinder rewards a mix of energy levels.
Will my photos look like the real me to my date?
Yes. The grading step compares every photo against your selfies. If it does not pass identity match, it is not delivered. The first date should feel like you walked out of your own profile.
How fast will I get my photos? Do I own them?
Under 90 minutes from upload to delivery. You own the photos with full commercial use, so they work on every dating app, your social profiles, and any future profile refresh.
Still curious? Browse the full FAQ
What customers say
Real reviews from real customers
4.8 / 5
across 7,800+ Trustpilot reviews
"I needed headshots for a last-minute conference, and Aurawave delivered in record time. The speed doesn't compromise quality."
FM
Frank M.
Trustpilot · Conference deadline
"Aurawave gave me a professional look I couldn't achieve with selfies or amateur photography."
LH
Lance H.
Trustpilot · Business owner
"I appreciate how Aurawave's AI handles diversity. The headshots look great for people of all ethnicities and ages."
GB
George B.
Trustpilot · Healthcare exec
If it doesn't look like you, we redo it
That's the whole policy. No fine print. No clause that voids the redo if you download a photo to inspect it.
Same business day turnaround
One sentence, no clauses
Keep what you like
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Ready when you are
Get dating photos that earn the right swipe
Upload 10 selfies. Get a hand-picked set in under 90 minutes. Every photo graded.
4.8 ★ on Trustpilot · Plain-language redo policy · Built by Joshua Albanese