While some may want a guide to virtual headshots for adults, today we are chatting about the pros and cons to digital alterations of kids photographs. With AI powered headshots become increasingly popular for people all over the world from LinkedIn to online social media platforms, it’s no wonder that some parents are starting to alter their kids photographs before sharing them.
This could be parents who want to make their kids look perfect for whatever personality and persona they’ve created online, or maybe they are the type of family who just wants a more professional forward facing profile for their family.
Whatever the reasons, many parents are using AI headshots for their kids, and we just want to chat about the topic to see what you think of the information.
One of the biggest reasons we’ve seen parents turn to AI alterations for their kids photographs is the desire to have and feature high quality photographs no matter who the photograph is portraying. This helps parents adjust school photographs to be more professional and not so dreary like we’ve seen in our past.
This also helps the parent create school photographs without having to pay the high ticket cost associated with school portraits. AI technology is allowing more people from all walks of life to gain access to professional quality photographs at home.
Parents are loving that they can correct imperfections such as poor lighting, not so favorable backgrounds, and even remove minor blemishes from their kids photographs. Some AI photograph programs even allow the parents to change the kids outfits to make it appeal to their preferences.
This helps you have more flattering photographs of your kids to hang on the walls or use in holiday cards as you send out the photographs to other family members. This can also help you maintain some level of safety and privacy if you make your kids look slightly different than what they would look like in real life. This helps you ensure that no one is stealing real images of your kids, rather the only access online of your kids photographs would be an AI image that is altered in some way.
That said, with most technology, there are some downsides to using digitally altered photographs of your kids. You can create an issue with your child’s self esteem if you’re constantly changing what they look like. This could cause your child to grow up with an unrealistic image of what they should look like, thus creating an additional layer of stress within your child as they grow up.
Another downside to filtering your kids photographs through an AI editing program is that you are now removing authenticity. You are no longer sharing an accurate image of your family or kids. This means that you are causing confusion to others about who you really are and what your family really looks like. This could be seen as misleading, especially if you are an online influencer.
We believe that the best way to use this type of technology with your kids photos is to maintain some level of balance. It’s important to remain mindful of AI technology and how altering your kids photographs could make them feel now and in the future.
While AI headshots may be a beneficial way to put a professional look in your family’s photographs, it should be used as temporary fun idea rather than a way to hid behind a computer screen and pretend that your family, especially your kids, look a certain way that they don’t appear to look in real life.
You might want to consider using realistic photographs that are more natural in some of your family moments so that you are actually able to look back at the real essence of childhood. Having an altered photo album of your kids will only take away from their and your ability to review life memories in a more realistic way.
One could say that there is a level of appreciation in being able to watch your kids grow naturally. So while AI headshots are a fabulous idea for those annual holiday photographs, it’s not wise to alter your kids image online all of the time. If you have a reason for security to do this, then we can understand that and be sure that your older kids understand that’s what you’re doing. The last thing you want to do is create superficial expectations of what your kids should look like, thus creating future self image issues within them.
In conclusion, it’s a wonderful world that we live in where you can use AI at home to adjust your kids annual photographs without having to pay a high ticket photographer to make a beautiful family photo. Just make sure that you are maintaining some level of balance and mindfulness with how you are using this technology as it pertains to altering your kids photographs.
