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The photos that work on a dating profile.

Your photos decide whether anyone reads the rest. Not whether you are good-looking: whether someone can see you clearly, picture spending an afternoon with you, and find one thing to say. Run your current set through the ten points below.

Why the first photo does most of the work

Most people decide in the first second from the first photo, then read the rest only if they are still interested. So the first photo has one job: show your face clearly, in good light, looking like someone pleasant to meet. Everything else, the hobbies, the travel, the dog, goes second to sixth.

What gets skipped

How to get good photos without a photographer

Give people something to say

A photo with something in it, a kitchen, a court, a city, a dog, a ridiculous hat, is a photo someone can comment on. “Where was this?” and “is that your dog?” are first messages. A perfect portrait with nothing in it is a photo people can only like, and a like is not a conversation.

On Intime people like one photo and say why, so a photo with something in it gets a message, not just a like. Each photo is checked while you add it, so you are never told at the end that one is wrong.

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