You paid for a professional headshot. It looked incredible on your photographer's screen.
Then you uploaded it to LinkedIn & something died in the process.

The grays went muddy. The blacks crushed. That clean, seamless gradient behind you? Now a blocky mess of compression artifacts. Your crisp, confident portrait now looks like it was saved off an old Nokia and screenshot twice for good measure.
It's not the photo's fault. It's LinkedIn's aggressive image compression algorithm — and it has no mercy for gradients, subtle tonal transitions, or finely detailed backgrounds.
The good news? Once you understand why this happens, you can work around it entirely. Here's exactly how.