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AI car photo editor for dealerships, from the photos you already take
Shoot a car on your phone one step at a time, and its photos land on the car sorted by angle, the front corner first. Put the outside shots on a studio backdrop with every original kept, and a 360 builds itself from eight angles you took.
Front corner, driver side · View 1 of 8Front · View 2 of 8Front corner, passenger side · View 3 of 8Passenger side · View 4 of 8Rear corner, passenger side · View 5 of 8Rear · View 6 of 8Rear corner, driver side · View 7 of 8Driver side · View 8 of 8
Try the studio on one of your own photos, with no login and no watermark.
- The AI salesman answers from this published listing.
- An inquiry sent from this page becomes a lead in your CRM, with the M5 attached.
What the shopper sees.
The same photos and 360 view, published to the vehicle page on your website. The AI salesman answers from the listing. When a shopper leaves contact details, the inquiry becomes a lead with the vehicle, the source and the shopper’s message or the AI’s summary attached. Example dealership; details are illustrative.
Capture the right views
Follow a guided shot list on your phone to capture the details buyers want to see.
Create a consistent look
Choose a studio backdrop while preserving vehicle details and keeping your original photos. Style one car, or up to 50 cars in one run.
Give buyers a clear next step
Publish photos and 360 views alongside vehicle details, price and a way to get in touch.
Who does what
The studio styles your photos. It never invents a car.
Guides the shoot
The same 20 steps on every car, on your phone: the VIN label, the dash, eight stops for the 360, the inside, the cargo, the engine and the wheels.
On your phoneSorts by angle
Puts the photos in listing order with the front corner first, and holds back paperwork and photos that show another car’s VIN. Make primary or a drag changes the order.
System · by defaultApplies the listing look
Cuts the car out onto your backdrop, with a shadow under it and the brightness evened out. It runs only when someone asks or approves, and Restore puts any original back.
On request · uses your AI allowanceNever invents
No made-up angles, no damage repair, no new features. The 360 turns only through outside photos you took.
Boundary
What you get
An AI car photo editor built around the car you actually have
This is a car dealership photo editor that starts from the photos your team already takes. A guided walkaround gets the same shots of every car, the photos go into listing order by angle, the outside shots can go on a studio backdrop, and a 360 builds itself from eight of them. Every original is kept, and the vehicle page, the AI salesman and your listing feeds all show the photos in one order.
Capture with a clear sequence
Shoot every car the same way on your phone, and the photos sort themselves by angle, with paperwork held back from the public listing.
Present a consistent lot
Choose a studio backdrop, your website color or a picture of your own lot. The car itself is never changed, and the original photo is kept.
Let shoppers look around
A 360 from eight outside photos you take leads the car’s gallery on your website. Shoppers turn it by drag, touch or the arrow keys, and it never turns on its own.
See it in action
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English transcript
A vehicle photo workflow turns a set of real images into a useful presentation. The goal is clear coverage, a consistent listing, and an accurate view of the car a shopper is considering.
The first impression of a car often happens on a screen. AutoDealer keeps the photo workflow beside the vehicle, so you can review its images, organize the listing, and choose how that car appears to shoppers.
Open the vehicle's photo workspace to see the images already attached to its record. Review the exterior and interior coverage, check the lead image, and keep the presentation grounded in photos of the actual car you are selling.
The workspace includes tools for listing order and studio backgrounds, including a custom backdrop. Use a consistent style across your stock while checking the vehicle details in the result. AI photo processing uses the allowance included with your plan.
For a fuller view, the three sixty workflow uses eight exterior angles that you supply. Guided phone shooting helps gather the coverage. Review the photos and any available finished view, then decide which images belong on the public listing.
The AI assistant can propose photo sorting, studio styling, and a three sixty build from supplied angles. You review the supported action before approving it.
The details
Car dealership photography on your own phone, one stop at a time
On a phone, Shoot a car on the Inventory page, or Shoot on a car’s Photos card, walks you round the car in the same 20 steps every time. At each of the eight outside stops you fit the car between two lines, so every photo is taken from the same distance.
- The VIN label comes first. It is read at once, names the car and, on a car’s own page, checks you are at the right one.
- Add a stop between each of the eight for a smoother 360.
- Tap Damage at any step to add a close-up. Any step but the VIN can be skipped.
- Each photo uploads while you walk.
A printable car photo shot list, free How to shoot a car for the 360
Listing photos sorted by angle, with paperwork held back
New photos start private, and the card asks what they are for: Auction, Transport, Recon or Ready to publish. Nothing goes on your website until you pick Ready to publish. The photos then go into listing order: a front corner first (driver side unless you choose the passenger side), then around the car, the inside and the details.
- Anything that looks like paperwork, and any photo that shows another car’s VIN, is held back. Move to Documents files a paper on the car.
- A blurry photo, a cut-off car or a person in the shot is suggested to stay private.
- The VIN label and dash photos are car photos: they publish with the set unless you make them private.
- Make primary picks another listing photo, and a drag sets your own order.
A car photo studio for the whole lot, without building one
Select a car’s photos, click Prepare and pick Apply listing look: the car is cut out onto your backdrop, with a shadow under it and the brightness evened out across the set. Show preview styles the first photo so you can see it beside the original before you go ahead. Only outside photos are styled.
- Fifteen looks, from Soft light (the default) to Your website color and Your picture, a photo of your own lot or showroom.
- Owners and managers set the default look, the shadow and a 4:3 or 16:9 crop under Settings, Photos.
- Styled photos carry a Styled badge, and Restore puts the original back.
- Styling a photo again always starts from the original.
A 360 car view from eight photos, with no turntable
Once each of the eight outside angles has a public photo tagged Complete, the 360 builds itself from your own shots. It shows first in the car’s gallery on your website, in English or Spanish with the rest of the page, and a sold car’s page stops showing it.
- The frames are lined up so the car keeps its size as it turns.
- Styled and plain photos never share a 360: style all of the outside photos, or none.
- Change a photo in it and it comes off the website at once, then builds again as long as all eight angles are still there.
- Remove takes it off and keeps it off. Build 360 brings it back.
Across the lot
Add a car from its photos, with the VIN and miles read for review
Drop up to 60 photos of one car on Add from photos. The VIN is read off the VIN label or the title and decoded, the miles come from the odometer photo, and a bill of sale among the photos can fill in the cost. Check What I see, then click Add car.
- A car already in stock gets the photos instead, once you check the match.
- The car’s own papers, such as the title or a bill of sale, go on its Documents, never on the website.
- With the AI off or the allowance used up, type the VIN and add the car anyway.
Car photo editing for up to 50 cars in one run
Select cars on the Inventory list and click Apply listing look. Each car’s outside photos that are not styled yet get the look, one car after another, up to 50 cars and 25 photos a car in one run.
- The dialog shows which car it is on, and Stop after this car ends the run there.
- A tick box restyles photos that are styled already, from their originals.
- If the AI allowance runs out, the run stops and the cars already done keep their look.
- Restore original on a car’s Photos card puts its photos back.
One photo order on your website and your listing feeds
The listing photo leads, then the saved order. The vehicle page, the full-screen photos page, the AI salesman and each listing feed use that one order, so every channel leads with the same photo.
- Private photos stay off the website and out of the feeds.
- The 360 shows on your website only. The feeds carry the photos.
- Make primary changes the lead photo on the website, and in each feed the next time it is fetched.
Ask the assistant, then approve the card
In the dashboard chat, ask the assistant to sort a car’s photos, make them public, style them or build its 360. Each request becomes a card that changes nothing until someone approves it, and the sort, the style and the 360 can be undone from the card.
- Styling and making photos public always wait for a person, whatever the Autopilot setting.
- A card that makes photos public lists each photo it would publish.
- Owners, admin managers and sales can approve photo cards.
The 360 is built only from outside photos you take. It does not make up a missing view, repair damage or retouch paint, and glass still shows what was behind it. Styling runs only when someone asks or approves, and each photo it styles uses a little of your plan’s monthly AI allowance.
In plain words
What the AI car photo editor changes, and what it leaves alone
What it does
- Walks you round the car on your phone in the same 20 steps
- Sorts the photos into listing order by angle, the front corner first
- Holds back paperwork and photos that show another car’s VIN
- Puts outside photos on a studio backdrop or your own picture, and keeps every original
- Builds a 360 for your website from eight outside photos you take
- Keeps one photo order on your website and in your listing feeds
- Accepts iPhone HEIC photos
What it does not do
- Retouch the car. Paint, dents and damage stay as photographed.
- Make up an angle you did not shoot
- Style inside, engine, odometer, VIN, damage or paperwork photos
- Clean the glass. The old background can still show through a window.
- Send the 360 to your listing feeds. It shows on your own website.
- Style a photo before someone asks or approves
- Add a watermark
Questions
Car dealership photo editor questions
Do I need a turntable, a photo booth or a special camera to make a 360?
No. Your phone is enough. The 360 is built from ordinary outside photos, one from each of eight stops around the car, or sixteen for a smoother turn. On a phone, Shoot a car walks you to each stop and shows two lines to fit the car between, so every photo is taken from the same distance.
How to shoot a car for the 360Is there an app, and does it work with iPhone photos?
There is no app in the App Store or on Google Play. The dashboard works in your phone’s browser and can be added to your home screen, and Shoot a car shows there on a phone. iPhone HEIC photos are accepted, along with JPEG, PNG, WebP and GIF. Add from photos and Shoot a car take photos up to 25 MB each.
How to add it to your home screenCan I use my own lot or showroom as the backdrop?
Yes. An owner or manager uploads a wide photo of your lot, your showroom or a branded wall under Settings, Photos, at least 1600 by 900 pixels, and it becomes your listing look. You can also pick Your website color or one of the studio rooms, such as the Gray room.
How to use your own backdropDoes the AI change the car, or hide scratches and damage?
No. It cuts the car out of your photo and puts it on the backdrop, with a shadow and the brightness evened out. Paint, dents and damage stay as photographed, nothing is added, and damage close-ups are never styled. Glass shows what was behind it, so check the preview. Your original is kept, and Restore puts it back.
Do I still need a car photo editing service?
Not for a clean backdrop and a matching set. The studio does that on your own photos, one car at a time or up to 50 in one run. It does not retouch: it will not remove a scratch, clean a reflection in the glass or change the car. If you want that kind of automotive photo editing, a service still does it.
Will new photos go public right away?
No. New photos start private, and each batch is asked what the photos are for: Auction, Transport, Recon or Ready to publish. Nothing goes on your website until you pick Ready to publish. An owner or manager can turn the question off under Settings, Photos, and new photos then go public once they are sorted. Paperwork stays private either way, and a batch with another car’s VIN in it waits for your answer.
How new photos are handledWhat if the car is already in my inventory?
Add from photos and Shoot a car check the VIN against your inventory. If the car is in stock, the photos go on that stock number once you check the match. If it was sold, the page says when and links the car and its deal. Bring it back into stock reopens the car first, and then the photos go on the new record.
How Add from photos worksDo the styled photos and the 360 go to my listing feeds?
The photos do and the 360 does not. Your listing feeds carry the public photos, styled or not, in the same order as your website, with the listing photo first. The 360 shows only on your own website, first in the car’s gallery.
See inventory syndicationWhat does it cost, and is there a watermark?
The photo tools are on every plan, with no separate fee, no watermark and no limit on the number of photos. Reading photos, styling them and building a 360 use your plan’s monthly AI allowance. When it runs out, styling and new 360 builds wait for next month or a higher plan, and a 360 you already built keeps showing. You can try the studio on one photo for free, with no login.
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