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I can see most of the recent comments here are people actually building or promoting software for this exact use case. There have been some decent points made, but I'll pitch in with what I have learned so far from speaking with clients and learning from developing a software in this space over the past year. I guess this comment will mostly be useful for dealerships considering this sort of software for their operations.
The most important part is balancing the dealerships benefit (increased attention and decreased sales cycles) with the end consumers expectations. The previous comment touched upon this a bit, but it's a more comprehensive part than checking that the potential scratches and faults are displayed in a truthful manner. If a client feels like they have been mislead it's a net negative for the dealership, even if the altered images lead to more calls and eyeballs. Whatever software or service you end up using, make sure quality control is part of the process and regenerate shots that are misleading. Make sure the software you pick is easy and intuitive to use when quality controlling (ie comparing the before and after, since this determines if it's a shot that you can use in your listing). Your attention grabbing altered images do not have to fill up the whole catalogue for the listing, their main goal is to drive eyeballs and calls, not to overpromise.
We have experimented with a lot of different ways to get the shots to look natural and keeping high fidelity while also making the images clearly more eye catching and efficient for marketing. So far there isn't a solution that would bring a 100% result everytime, at least in any software that we have used. We are still developing the software over time and will hopefully come even closer to that in the future.
As a dealership I would also pay attention to the pricing models of these applications since they differ greatly between providers. Many are pushing dealerships to monthly subscriptions to improve their own cashflow but that's not ideal for many dealerships, especially if sales are hard to predict or seasonal. We have made the deliberate choice of keeping the pricing pay-as-you-go to cater to dealerships who rather pay for what they use than a flat subscription each month.
There's a lot of different things we could cover in more detail related to this topic and we actually made a video that might help you choose the right option for AI car background editing as a dealership. You can check it out here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIApX734vAY
The most important part is balancing the dealerships benefit (increased attention and decreased sales cycles) with the end consumers expectations. The previous comment touched upon this a bit, but it's a more comprehensive part than checking that the potential scratches and faults are displayed in a truthful manner. If a client feels like they have been mislead it's a net negative for the dealership, even if the altered images lead to more calls and eyeballs. Whatever software or service you end up using, make sure quality control is part of the process and regenerate shots that are misleading. Make sure the software you pick is easy and intuitive to use when quality controlling (ie comparing the before and after, since this determines if it's a shot that you can use in your listing). Your attention grabbing altered images do not have to fill up the whole catalogue for the listing, their main goal is to drive eyeballs and calls, not to overpromise.
We have experimented with a lot of different ways to get the shots to look natural and keeping high fidelity while also making the images clearly more eye catching and efficient for marketing. So far there isn't a solution that would bring a 100% result everytime, at least in any software that we have used. We are still developing the software over time and will hopefully come even closer to that in the future.
As a dealership I would also pay attention to the pricing models of these applications since they differ greatly between providers. Many are pushing dealerships to monthly subscriptions to improve their own cashflow but that's not ideal for many dealerships, especially if sales are hard to predict or seasonal. We have made the deliberate choice of keeping the pricing pay-as-you-go to cater to dealerships who rather pay for what they use than a flat subscription each month.
There's a lot of different things we could cover in more detail related to this topic and we actually made a video that might help you choose the right option for AI car background editing as a dealership. You can check it out here:
View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIApX734vAY
