What this picture means at Muro
Your background is never replaced with a brand colour. Muro is a layer that sits inside the tools a team already uses rather than asking them to move, and the portrait behaves the same way — the real room stays, depth and all. A person cut out and pasted onto a swatch is a company talking about itself.
The room behind you is reduced to two tones and a threshold; you are not. Preconstruction is the work of turning something continuous and ambiguous into something discrete a team can decide on, and the treatment does exactly that to the setting while leaving the person whole. It is honest about having been processed, which is the point.
Most portrait finishes darken the edges. This one inverts that and puts the light on the person instead. It is a small thing that changes the mood of a whole team page, and it is the honest posture for a company whose job is to remove uncertainty early rather than brace for it late.
The frame — ring or square border — carries no wordmark and no logo. It frames the picture rather than announcing over it, because that is where Muro belongs in a project: around the work, holding its edges, never standing in front of the people doing it.
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Position your face against the guides, then render. You get both shapes from one pass. Everything happens in this browser tab — the file never leaves your machine. What the treatment means →
Put your eyes on the dashed line and your head inside the box — crown to chin should fill it. Drag to move, zoom to size.
Both shapes appear here.
One render, both shapes. Same portrait, same frame weight.
The separation model could not be reached, so the screen has been applied to the whole frame rather than only the background. Reload and render again for the house version.
That reading is outside the house range, which usually means the frame is off rather than the photo. Check your eyes are on the guide line.
Use the 400 JPEG for upload; keep the 1230 master. Slack rounds the corners of whatever you give it, so the square reads as a rounded square there.
These values are the treatment, read from the code that renders it.
#1a2418 and #ece5d3. The person stays in continuous tone between the same two.#3b5320, drawn inside the edge. Leaves 87% of the width to the photograph. The square keeps sharp outer corners and rounds its opening by 168 px, so the border thickens into each corner rather than meeting at a point.#faf6ea, seen only where a surface does not crop to a circle. The square variant has no ground — the photograph reaches the border.muro-profile-picture-circle-400.jpg, muro-profile-picture-square-400.jpg. Add your surname before uploading if you are filing them.The treatment can only work with what the capture gives it.
Roughly 15% of the frame above your crown. Without it the crop cannot reach the house geometry.
A window at 45° is enough. The dither has two tones and nothing else, so modelling in the face is all that separates your features from the background.
The room you are in is kept and screened, deliberately — depth is what makes the frame look photographed rather than assembled. A busy background is fine; the threshold flattens it.
Chroma is discarded before the dither, so colour does not matter. Lightness does: a top close to your skin tone will merge with your face.
LinkedIn and X profile photos, the muro.ai team page, speaker cards and conference bios, Slack and Google Workspace avatars. Anywhere a person represents Muro at small size. Use the circle where the surface crops to one and the square everywhere else — a circle pasted into a square slot leaves four pale corners, which is the one way this can look careless.
Not for press photography, passport or visa documents, or anywhere a true likeness is required — this is a stylised portrait and should never be the only picture of you that exists. Do not re-crop, re-tint or add a wordmark to the output; if the treatment changes, it changes here, for everyone, at once.