This came to my attention recently when I was asked for a simple self image to use on a startup web site. How much should we edit? We have the tools now. At very least by taking lots of images in many contexts. But in the past, or now, we could go to a professional portraitist and get advice on how to produce an image. Below an intro, much more at the link.
Editing Self-Image
By Ohad Fried, Jennifer Jacobs, Adam Finkelstein, Maneesh Agrawala
Communications of the ACM, March 2020, Vol. 63 No. 3, Pages 70-79
10.1145/3326601
Self-portraiture has become ubiquitous. Once an awkward feat, the "selfie"—a picture of one's self taken by one's self, typically at arm's length—is now easily accomplished with any smartphone, and often shared with others through social media. A 2013 poll indicated selfies accounted for one-third of photos taken within the 18-to-24 age group. Google estimated in 2014 that 93 billion selfies were taken per day just by Android users alone. More recently, selfie taking has begun to influence human behavior in the physical world. Museums have started to develop environments that cater specifically to Instagram and Snapchat users. Even facial plastic surgeons have observed an increase in the number of patients that seek plastic surgery specifically to look better in selfies (55% of surgeons had such patients in 2017, up 13% from 2016).2 Perhaps most strikingly, plastic surgeons have begun reporting a new phenomenon termed "Snapchat dysmorphia," where patients seek surgery to adjust their features to correspond to those achieved through digital filters ... "
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