CarFlow AIBETTER INPUT BETTER OUTPUT
CarFlow AI does not alter the car itself — we never change its shape, color, trim, or condition, so potential buyers are never misled. That is exactly why the quality of your original photos is critical: the cleaner the input, the better the final result. Below you'll find the guidelines that help you get the most out of our service.
Don't shoot too close to the car
Standing too close to the car — especially with a phone's wide lens — bends the perspective, stretches the bumpers, and leaves no room around the vehicle for our AI to work with. Our pipeline replaces backgrounds and casts new shadows, and that needs breathing space on every side. Step back a few meters and let the whole car sit comfortably inside the frame.
Do not rotate the camera
Don't tilt or rotate the shot — the car has to sit straight, wheels parallel to the bottom of the frame. Tilted photos throw off our ground-plane detection, and the new background and shadow won't line up.
Keep wheels and lower body clear of snow, grass, or curbs
Our AI cuts the car out by its visible outline — it doesn't redraw hidden parts. Anything covering the wheels or lower body (snow drifts, tall grass, curbs, debris) gets baked into the cutout, and the car ends up looking cropped on the new background.
Don't shoot from above
High-angle shots don't match the ground-level backgrounds our AI composites onto. A car photographed looking down will end up looking like it's floating or tilting over the new scene instead of sitting on the ground.
Shoot in high resolution
The output can't be sharper than the input. Low-res or heavily compressed photos come out soft and pixelated after processing. Shoot at your camera's full resolution and avoid screenshots or images saved from messengers — they strip quality.
Shoot at headlight height
Don't crouch or hold the phone above your head — keep the camera roughly level with the headlights. That's the angle closest to how cars look in real listings and in our backgrounds, so the composite looks natural instead of tilted.
Watch for reflections on the body
Cars are mirrors. Anything reflected in the paint — you, the phone, other cars, bright signs — gets baked into the cutout and stays in the final image. Move around until the body shows clean reflections of the sky or plain walls, not clutter.
Keep the same distance across all shots
Shoot every angle from roughly the same distance so the car comes out the same size on every processed photo. Mixing close-up and far-away shots makes the listing look uneven once the backgrounds are swapped.
