How to change the background of car photos
A car park full of cars, a dark garage or a street with bins takes attention away from the vehicle. Changing the background fixes that without taking it anywhere. There are three ways to do it, and they give very different results.
Why the background matters
In a photo, the eye goes first to whatever has the most contrast. If the background has other cars, posts or signs, that is where it goes, and the vehicle looks smaller and less cared for than it is.
For a dealership there is another reason: the same background on every vehicle makes the stock look tidy and professional, and makes the listings easy to recognise.
Cutting the vehicle out by hand
In an image editor, you select the vehicle, separate it from the background and paste it onto another. It gives full control, but takes time on every photo, and some parts are hard to get right: the edges of the wheels, the windows, through which the old background still shows, and the shadow on the ground, without which the vehicle looks like it is floating.
The light also has to match. A vehicle photographed in the sun, pasted into a softly lit studio, shows straight away.
Using an automatic background remover
Some apps remove the background of any photo in seconds and leave the vehicle on white or on an image of your choice. They are quick, but the result is still a cut-out vehicle: the windows show the place where it was photographed, there are no reflections or shadows from the new background, and the light is the original photo's.
Taking the vehicle into a scene
The third way is CarStudio's Scene mode: you pick a studio, a showroom or a landscape, and the vehicle appears there with that place's light, reflections and shadows, as in a studio shoot. In the scenes with a wall, your logo can go on the wall.
The scene is created with AI from your photo. See each photo next to the original and check details such as the wheels and trim before you use it.
OriginalWhich photos work best
- Exterior photos. Interior and detail shots do not get a new scene and are left out, at no cost.
- Sharp and well lit: the better the starting photo, the better the result.
- With the vehicle clearly apart, with no other cars or objects right next to it.
- It does not matter if the frame cuts off a bit of the vehicle.