Managed car image service

Every image your dealership puts out, done properly.

Vehicle listings, photo banners, adverts and promotions. You send the photos; every image is finished by hand and loaded straight onto your live listings. Nobody on your side has to touch it.

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How it works

From your phone to your forecourt.

It runs on the app you already use. No portal to log into, no software to learn — three steps and your listings are done.

01 · Send

Send the photos

Snap the car on your phone and send the shots over on WhatsApp, exactly as you would to a colleague.

02 · Finish

Cleaned and finished by hand

I work through every image by hand — backgrounds, lighting and your branded plate — to one consistent house style.

03 · Upload

Straight onto your site

The finished images go directly onto your website and DMS, in place and ready to list. Nothing for your team to touch.

What we handle

Not just retouching — your stock images, sorted.

Finishing

Hand-finished photos

Clean backdrops and grounded shadows on every car — finished by hand, not automated.

Branding

Dealer-branded plates

The reg swapped for your dealership name, so your brand rides on every image across the listing.

Overlays

Banners & badges

Price, finance and “just arrived” on the lead photo; Sold, Reserved and Coming Soon flags when you need them.

Filler

Placeholder & filler images

Branded “more images coming soon” so you can list the moment a car lands, plus tidy spec tiles to round out short sets.

Pipeline

Pulled, finished, uploaded

Images pulled, finished and put straight onto your system — the whole job off your team’s plate.

Awards

Award images across your stock

Autotrader award images, finance flags and sold banners applied consistently to every vehicle — not just the ten someone got round to.

Advertising

Banners & adverts

Website and social banners, forecourt promotions and individual car adverts, built from your own stock in your own branding.

Setup

Camera & photo setup

Standardise your in-house phone and camera settings so the raw shots arrive right the first time.

Auction stock

Auction images, made to sell.

Cars bought at auction arrive with whatever the hall shot — flat light, busy backdrops, framing all over the place. Send them over and they come back finished by hand and loaded onto your system, so an auction buy lists as cleanly as anything shot on your own forecourt.

One less job for your team — and no listing that looks like it came straight off the ramp.

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Left: as it arrived · Right: finished, ready to list
Real cars, real photographs

It should still look like the car.

Generated backgrounds can look good, but they all look the same. The car stops reading as a real photograph of a real vehicle sitting somewhere. We keep it real — quietly removing whatever distracts from the sale and leaving the car exactly as it is.

Real setting, real light, finished by hand — so the photo holds up to the scrutiny a buyer actually gives it before they pick up the phone.

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Left: generated background · Right: the real car, finished
Dealer-branded plates

Your name on every plate.

On every image, the number plate is finished with your dealership name in place of the registration — so your brand travels with the car, on your own site and across Auto Trader.

  • Stand out on Auto Trader. On a results page wall-to-wall with competitors, branded plates flag every listing as unmistakably yours.
  • A more professional look. Consistent, branded photography reads as an established dealer rather than a private seller.
  • The real reg stays private. The registration is replaced with your name, so the actual plate isn’t left on show across public listings.
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Left: original plate · Right: your dealership name
What you get

Listings that look the part.

Quality

Every car at its best

Clean, bright, sharp photos that present each vehicle the way it deserves.

Consistency

A consistent forecourt

Every car framed the same way, so the whole listing page lines up.

Attention

Photos that hold attention

Crisp, well-composed images that make buyers stop scrolling and click in.

Same-day

Listed, same-day

Finished and uploaded straight to your system, ready to sell — no bottleneck.

Hands-off

Completely hands-off

No software to learn, nothing to edit in-house. You shoot; I handle the rest.

Selected work

Drag to see the difference.

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Background & paintwork — exterior clean and tidy, no distractions
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interior presentation — cabin - lights and scuffs removed
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Brighter & sharper — forecourt
Consistency

A listing page should line up.

Shot on the lot, every car ends up at a slightly different height, angle and distance. Lined up consistently, the whole page reads like one professional operation — buyers feel it without quite noticing.

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Why it pays

Faster than doing it yourself. And it shows.

Even just shooting, selecting and uploading car after car ties up staff for hours — and done in-house at speed, it looks it. Hand the lot to me: the cars come back cleaner, listed sooner, and your team gets the time back.

Most of the fee is offset by the staff time it frees up — your people stop wrestling with photos and get back to selling.

A personal service

Human to human.

You’re dealing with a person, not a portal. One pair of eyes on every car — and if anything’s not right, I’ll put it right myself. No ticket queue, no chatbot.

— James, Auto Retouch
Get in touch

See it on your own stock.

Send me the photos from the next car you buy. I’ll finish the full set and put it live on your own listing so you can see it before deciding anything. No charge, no obligation.

james@autoretouch.co.uk  ·  07860 142182

Currently handling listing images for a dealer group across seven sites.