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How small is your face in that photo

You already have the full-length one. This measures your face against the frame, then names the position that photo can still hold.

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Can they see your faceLight and focusWhat is around youEyes and postureHow natural it looksSomething to ask about

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Face size is measured, not judged

Every other page on this question tells you how to stand. You are past that. The photo exists, so the first step here is arithmetic. The largest face is found, and its area is compared with the area of the frame. That fraction is the answer. It is read from your original file, so the same photo returns the same fraction every time.

Fixed thresholds turn the fraction into one of four words. Nothing in that step is a matter of taste and nothing depends on the day. A photo sitting at four percent is Solid this morning and Solid next year. Two things outrank size, in this order. A face touching the edge of the frame, then a face too dark to make out. Either one caps the rating at Fair however large the face is.

  • Under 1 percent of the frame: Weak. Your face is very small here.
  • Under 3 percent: Fair. Your face is small on a phone screen.
  • 3 to 8 percent: Solid. Present, but not leading, and no line is written about it.
  • 8 to 15 percent: Strong. Around head and shoulders.
  • Over 15 percent: Solid. A face filling the frame is a crop, not a portrait.
  • A face touching the edge of the frame is Fair whatever its size.

What actually happens

You upload the photos you are already using, or the ones you are deciding between. Every photo is judged on its own, never against your others. Each photo comes back with where it goes on your profile, six ratings, and what to improve.

Where it goes runs from use this first to do not use this one. The three answers in between are use this second, somewhere in the middle, and keep this for later. A photo where your face is small can still belong in the middle. It is placed there rather than marked down for it.

Each rating is Strong, Solid, Fair or Weak. Two of the six ratings are measured from your file. AI looking at the photo judges the other four. When a photo does not show enough to judge something, the rating says so. It reads Not clear enough, instead of a confident word nobody can trust.

  • Can they see your face — measured from your file.
  • Light and focus — measured from your file.
  • What is around you — judged by AI looking at the photo.
  • Eyes and posture — judged by AI looking at the photo.
  • How natural it looks — judged by AI looking at the photo.
  • Something to ask about — judged by AI looking at the photo.

It names the fault, not a number

A score out of ten tells you nothing you can act on. So there is no score here, no number and no percentage. What to improve is at most three short lines, written about your photo rather than picked from a fixed set.

Often there is nothing worth changing, and the list comes back empty. That is a good result, not a failure. A line appears only when the fault costs the photo something real.

Some faults can be corrected in the photo you already have. A correction is offered when a rating is Fair or Weak and the fault can honestly be corrected. It can also decline, and say that a new photo would serve you better. The check is free. Correcting a photo costs one credit.

A smaller face is not a worse photo

The question behind the search is usually whether to delete the full-length photo. The answer is usually to move it. Opening a profile is the strict job. It asks for one person, a face and eyes you can see, and enough size to read at a glance.

The middle of a profile is a different job. It is where you are visibly doing something real. A smaller face is fine there when the activity carries the picture. That is written into the policy, not left to a judgement call. So a photo of you at a distance is placed in the middle. It is not marked down for being what it is.

  • Use this first: one person, nothing hiding the eyes, and big enough to read at a glance.
  • Use this second: a clear view from another distance, often fuller framing.
  • Somewhere in the middle: you are visibly doing something. A smaller face is fine here.
  • Keep this for later: social context, a pet, a dressed-up look.
  • Do not use this one: always backed by at least one line saying why.

What cropping in cannot get back

Cropping raises the fraction, because it removes frame rather than adding face. What it cannot do is add detail. The pixels covering your face are the ones the file already holds, and a tighter crop leaves fewer of them. So the size of the file matters as much as the framing. A long edge under 640 pixels is rated Weak on its own, and under 1280 it is Fair.

Some faults in a photo you already have can be corrected. This one often cannot, and we would rather say so than sell it. When too little of the face is there to hold detail, the correction is refused. The reason is shown and the credit comes back. Nobody should pay to have a face invented at the size the file cannot hold.

  • Cropping removes frame. It does not add detail to your face.
  • A long edge under 640 pixels is Weak. Under 1280 pixels is Fair.
  • Focus and resolution are never corrected, because that detail was never captured.
  • A screenshot, or a photo taken into a mirror, starts from the wrong file. No edit fixes that.

What it will not do

  • It reads what is visible in a photograph. It does not know you, and it is not judging you.
  • Every photo is judged on its own. We never compare your photos to each other.
  • It cannot tell you whether a specific person will like you, and nothing can.
  • It has no access to your dating app account, your match count or your likes.
  • The check is free and it does not ask for a card.

Once you know which photo is the problem

Knowing a photo has to go is useful on its own. It is more useful when the replacement is one you can actually get, which is the part generating is for: your own face, in the photo your profile is short of.

Questions

How small is too small?

It is a fraction of the frame, not a distance from the camera. Under 1 percent of the frame, your face is rated Weak. Under 3 percent it is Fair, and one line says your face is small on a phone screen. Between 3 and 15 percent it is Solid or Strong, and nothing is said about size at all.

Should I delete my full body photo?

Usually not. A photo where you are standing at a distance rarely opens a profile. The first one has to be readable at a small size, and the check is strict about that. The middle of a profile is a different job. A smaller face is fine there when the activity carries the picture. So the photo gets a position rather than a verdict.

Can you crop in and fix it?

Sometimes, and often not. Cropping removes frame rather than adding face, so the detail in your face is whatever the file already holds. When too little of the face is there to hold detail, the correction is refused and the credit comes back. Focus and resolution are never corrected, because that detail was never captured.

My result said nothing about face size. Was it measured?

Yes. Face size is measured from your original file on every check. It is one of the six ratings that come back. A line about it appears only when that rating is Fair or Weak. Silence means the size was fine, not that it was skipped. The list of things to improve is capped at three, and an empty list is a real result.

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