For

office managers

Slack profile picture size

Slack profile picture size

#team-sky

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Mara Jansen

10:24

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Jonah Vos

10:26

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Nora Bakker

10:31

Cursor

Export

1 portrait

Shape

Square

Circle

Rounded

Size

512px

1024px

2048px

Export

#team-sky

Portrait of a young woman with long blond hair, background removed

Mara Jansen

10:24

Portrait of a man with dark curly hair, background removed

Jonah Vos

10:26

Portrait of a woman with short grey hair, background removed

Nora Bakker

10:31

Cursor

Export

1 portrait

Shape

Square

Circle

Rounded

Size

512px

1024px

2048px

Export

#team-sky

Portrait of a young woman with long blond hair, background removed

Mara Jansen

10:24

Portrait of a man with dark curly hair, background removed

Jonah Vos

10:26

Portrait of a woman with short grey hair, background removed

Nora Bakker

10:31

Cursor

Export

1 portrait

Shape

Square

Circle

Rounded

Size

512px

1024px

2048px

Export

  • Mac app

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  • free to start

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  • one look for the whole team

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  • export for LinkedIn, Slack and email

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Same photo, one background

The photo you get.
The photo you need.

Original photo of a man with glasses, taken in an office

Office light, a desk and a doorframe behind him.

The same man with the background removed, ready for a new background

One background. Still readable at 32 pixels.

Portrait of a young woman with long blond hair, background removed
Portrait of a man with dark curly hair, background removed
Portrait of a man with glasses, background removed
Portrait of a woman with short grey hair, background removed
Portrait of an older man with grey curly hair, background removed

And the rest of the team on the same background, the same crop, one export.

How it works

From a folder of random photos to one matching team, in four steps.

Drop photos

Drop in the photos

Put the whole team in one folder. Backgrounds are removed automatically.

Pick a background

Choose a preset, match your brand colour, or upload your own.

Fill in body

Retouch

Fix the framing

Fill in missing shoulders and align every face to the same crop.

Export

Export the set

One click exports every photo, at a size that works for LinkedIn, Slack and email.

Good to know

Slack asks for a square image of at least 512 x 512 pixels and no larger than 1024 x 1024. That part takes a minute. The harder part is that Slack displays your photo very small, next to every message you send, and at that size most photos stop being readable.

512 × 512 px minimum · 1024 × 1024 maximum · square

Stay inside the range. Below 512 the image is rejected or looks soft. Above 1024 nothing improves; Slack scales it down anyway.

Think about the smallest size, not the biggest. In a message list your avatar is a few dozen pixels wide. A face against a busy room becomes a smudge. A face against one flat colour stays a face.

Keep the head large in the frame. Slack rounds the corners, so a tightly framed head with a little space around it survives; a full body shot becomes a dot.

For a whole workspace, one background colour does more for recognisability than any individual photo choice. It is the reason a channel of forty people can still be scanned at a glance.

Uploading team member photos into Aaavatar

the app · for Mac

Aaavatar editor with a portrait cut out and framed in a circle
Aaavatar showing the Team Sky folder: ten portraits on one shared blue background
Aaavatar editor with the Effects panel open, showing Balloon, Windy, Sticker and Flowers
Aaavatar Export sheet: choose Square, Circle or Rounded and a size of 512, 1024 or 2048 px
Aaavatar editor with a portrait cut out and framed in a circle
Aaavatar showing the Team Sky folder: ten portraits on one shared blue background
Aaavatar editor with the Effects panel open, showing Balloon, Windy, Sticker and Flowers
Aaavatar Export sheet: choose Square, Circle or Rounded and a size of 512, 1024 or 2048 px
Aaavatar editor with a portrait cut out and framed in a circle
Aaavatar showing the Team Sky folder: ten portraits on one shared blue background
Aaavatar editor with the Effects panel open, showing Balloon, Windy, Sticker and Flowers
Aaavatar Export sheet: choose Square, Circle or Rounded and a size of 512, 1024 or 2048 px

Features used

Three features that do the work.

A stack of team photos being dropped into Aaavatar

Folders

Drop the whole team in one folder and edit them as a set.

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Backgrounds

A preset, your brand colour or your own image, the same for everyone.

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Fill in body

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Filling in body…

Fill in body

Restore cut-off shoulders and align every face to the same crop.

FAQ

What size should a Slack profile picture be?

Why does my photo look blurry in Slack?

Can everyone in the workspace have the same background?

one look for the whole team

free to start · Mac app