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PRODUCT · VEHICLE PHOTOGRAPHY SOFTWARE

Capture it once.
Change the room, not the car.

Car listing images in minutes, from a phone on your own forecourt — with a background replacement that is a genuine composite rather than a regenerated picture of a car that resembles yours. Here is exactly how each part works, and what we do not do yet.

01· CAPTURE

The phone knows where it is. You just walk the orbit.

Consistent automotive photography normally means a studio, a rig and a photographer. We moved the consistency into the capture step instead, so a salesperson with a phone gets the same eight angles on every car.

Eight exterior angles on a 45° orbit
Front, front three-quarter left and right, both broadsides, rear three-quarter left and right, and rear — plus interior and detail shots if you want them.
Pose steering, on device
The phone reads its own position against the ground and tells you to step closer, step back, raise or lower. Targets are set per body class, so a large SUV is steered differently from a small hatchback.
Traced alignment silhouettes
A guide outline for the body class you are shooting sits over the viewfinder. They are bundled into the app rather than downloaded, so they appear instantly with no signal.
Auto-capture after a steady hold
Hold the framing for three seconds and it fires by itself. The manual shutter stays live the whole time — the app never refuses to take your photo.
◉ CAPTURE · GUIDED ORBIT
◉ PRESERVATION · CUT, NOT REDRAW
02· PRESERVATION

A composite, not a regeneration.

This is the part worth understanding, because it is where we differ from everything else in car photo background replacement. A generative tool produces a brand-new image of a car that resembles yours. We cut yours out and move it. The distinction sounds academic until a buyer stands next to the vehicle.

Deterministic image operations
The engine is built on ordinary, mask-bound image maths, not a diffusion model. Feed it the same photo twice and you get the same file twice.
A rule, not a setting
Generative editing of the source vehicle’s pixels is prohibited in the default listing pipeline by the first principle of our engineering constitution. It is not a toggle in an admin screen.
A gate that checks the car survived
Six automated quality gates run on every composite. One of them exists purely to verify that the vehicle’s own pixels were preserved through the transformation.
Honest about the edges
Two narrowly scoped exceptions exist, both concerning reflections and see-through glass — never paint, panels, geometry or trim. We would rather write that down than let you discover it.
03· ROOMS

Rooms that are rendered, not prompted.

A diffusion model asked for “a white studio” gives you a slightly different white studio every time — different floor tone, different ceiling, different reflections. Across a twelve-photo listing that reads as sloppy. Ours are rendered from a fixed 3D specification in Blender, so the room is identical on every car you shoot.

A set of named looks
Cool White, Warm Lux, Pearl, Slate and Midnight studios, plus an outdoor Forecourt with a brick boundary wall and real asphalt under an open sky.
Built for your actual camera angle
The room is rendered to match the pose of the photo in hand, rather than pasting your car onto a fixed backdrop and hoping the perspective agrees.
Your name on the wall
The garage’s signage is stamped into the room as raised lettering during the render — part of the scene, not a decal dropped on top.
Grounded, not floating
Contact shadow, wall shadow and floor reflection are applied deterministically, and the car is placed so its near tyres sit inside the floor turntable.
Or a room built for you alone
Beyond the shared library, we will design and render a showroom for your dealership and issue it to your account — so no other dealer can list a car in it. It is done by us rather than configured by you, and it is included on the Enterprise plan.
The Slate showroom rendered empty — cool dark grey walls with cove lighting and downlights above a pale veined quartzite floor.
◉ SLATE · BLENDER RENDER
◉ UK · PLATE + VEHICLE DATA
04· UK · PLATES & DATA

Built for UK plates and UK vehicle data.

Most tools in this category are built for the US or Indian market and treat the UK as a localisation task. We started here, which shows up in the small things that otherwise cost you an afternoon.

Plate blur or plate replacement
The registration is detected and either blurred, or replaced with a UK-style reflective yellow plate carrying your dealership’s name. It runs on the source photo, before anything else reads it.
Registration lookup
Type a UK plate and the vehicle record fills in, so you are not keying make, model and year by hand for every car.
Four valuations, in sterling
Trade, retail, private and part-exchange figures, cached so repeated lookups on the same car are instant.
GDPR handled properly
Erasure requests are processed by a background job that produces a machine-readable export of the data before deleting it.
05· DASHBOARD

Where the photos land.

Images are only worth something attached to a car, a price and a buyer. The dashboard is deliberately narrow — it does the things a dealer needs on the day, and nothing it cannot do properly.

Stock and vehicle records
A list of what you have, and a detail page per car holding its photos, spec, price and status.
A leads inbox
Enquiries arrive against the right vehicle with a record of where each came from.
Team and multiple sites
Invite colleagues with roles, and run more than one garage under one account with the data kept separate at the database level.
Billing, and an embed for your website
Self-serve Stripe subscriptions, plus a copy-paste snippet that puts your live stock on your own site.
◉ DASHBOARD · STOCK + LEADS
MORE · BEHIND THE SCENES

The rest of what is already built.

Smaller things, none of them aspirational. If it is on this list it is in the product.

Row-level security
Tenant isolation enforced in PostgreSQL, on every business table.
Append-only audit log
Who changed what, with no UPDATE or DELETE grant on the table.
Role-based access
Owner, admin and member roles, scoped per tenant and per garage.
Multi-garage groups
One tenant, many sites, with data separated between them.
UK registration lookup
Type a plate, get the vehicle details back.
Four valuation types
Trade, retail, private and part-exchange, in sterling.
Automatic listing copy
A generated description from the vehicle record, yours to edit.
CSV export
Your stock as a spreadsheet, whenever you want it.
Logo burn-in on export
Downloaded images carry your branding.
Embeddable stock widget
One script tag. No framework, no cookies, no personal data.
Offline capture queue
Failed uploads persist on the device and drain on reconnect.
Per-body-class guides
Traced silhouettes for hatchback, saloon, crossover and large SUV.
Interior and detail shots
Dashboard, seats, boot and engine, alongside the eight exteriors.
Six automated QA gates
Every composite is inspected before it is offered to you.
Eval harness
Image capabilities are regression-tested against a pinned golden set.
GDPR deletion with export
Request erasure and get a machine-readable copy of the data first.
Push notifications
Mobile alerts when work finishes or an enquiry arrives.
Stripe subscriptions
Self-serve billing, plan changes and invoices.
NOT YET · SAID OUT LOUD

Six things Podiar doesn’t do.

Every competitor page in this category is a wall of green ticks. Here is the other list, so you can rule us out in two minutes instead of two weeks.

NOT AVAILABLE
Publishing to marketplaces
We do not push listings to AutoTrader or any other marketplace. You export the images and upload them where you already advertise.
NOT AVAILABLE
360° spins and walk-around video
We produce still images only. There is no turntable spin and no video pipeline.
NOT AVAILABLE
CRM and DMS sync
Enquiries live in our own inbox. There is no two-way sync with HubSpot, Salesforce, Pipedrive or a dealer management system.
NOT AVAILABLE
SMS, WhatsApp and tracked phone numbers
You can record that a lead arrived by phone or WhatsApp, but we do not send messages or provision numbers.
NOT AVAILABLE
VIN decoding and history checks
Lookup is by UK registration. We do not decode VINs and we do not run HPI or provenance checks.
NOT AVAILABLE
Deposits and checkout
Stripe is used for your subscription to us. There is no buyer-facing payment or holding-fee flow.