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Check a portrait for lighting, framing, focus and exposure. Get a photo quality score and practical suggestions, free, with no signup or upload.
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Rate a portrait photo
Nine measurements on framing, lighting, eye contact and sharpness. Runs on your phone — the photo never leaves it.
Example result
What a photo score tells you
From our saved sample audit
9.9 / 10
- Face size
- 14.6% of the frame
- Sharpness
- Detail index 526
- Exposure
- Brightness 131/255
- Camera angle
- 4° tilt
This photo scored well for lighting and framing. The written review still recommended replacing it: another portrait did the same job with a more useful background. A high score is a starting point for choosing photos.
See the complete sample reviewShort answer
This rates the photograph, not the person in it. It reports how much of the frame the face fills, whether the subject is lit from the front or behind, how much fine detail survives, whether the exposure is usable, and the dimensions of the original file. It does not preview a platform's crop or measure how attractive you are.
What each measurement means
Face size
The detected face's area as a percentage of the frame. The tool favours roughly 12–45% for a close portrait. That is a scoring guideline: a full-body or activity photo can still be useful with a smaller face in the frame.
Lighting direction
Average brightness of the detected face compared with the whole frame. A darker face can indicate backlighting; this is an estimate, so check whether the face is actually in shadow before changing the photo.
Sharpness
A measure of fine detail in the image. A low value can flag blur, but texture and noise can affect it too. Compare similar photos and inspect the eyes at full size when deciding which is sharper.
Exposure
Mean luminance across the frame, flagging both crushed shadows and blown highlights.
Eye contact and camera angle
Estimates of head direction, tilt and eye openness from the face model. They help flag a turned-away or tilted portrait, but are not exact gaze measurements.
Where this is useful
It was built for dating photos, where these faults are expensive, but the measurements are the same for a professional headshot, a social avatar or a CV photo. Nothing about the analysis is dating-specific.
It gives measurements, not other people's opinions. If you want to know how strangers see a photo, a voting site does that instead: see how this compares with Photofeeler.
How to use your score
Compare similar portraits, inspect the weakest checks, then try a better-lit or sharper frame. The score is a guide to photo quality, not a prediction of dating success.
Portraits work best. With no face detected, the face-related checks are limited. If the face model cannot run, the tool reports a partial audit using resolution, exposure and sharpness.
Common questions
- Is this photo rating tool free?
- Yes, with no signup and no limit. It runs on your device, so it costs nothing to serve.
- Are my photos uploaded anywhere?
- No. The face model runs in your browser. Nothing is transmitted or stored.
- Does it rate attractiveness?
- No. It measures photographic properties only and makes no judgement about the person in the frame.
- What file types work?
- JPEG, PNG and WebP work in modern browsers. HEIC support depends on your browser; if a photo will not open, export it as JPEG and try again.
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