How to shoot it, write it, and list it.

Selling one vehicle

• How to Photograph a Car to Sell It (With a Phone)

  Wash it, wait for soft light, park it somewhere plain, hold the phone at headlight height, and shoot twenty to twenty five photos in this order. No camera, no gear, and about forty minutes.

• Why Your Car Photos Look Bad on Facebook Marketplace

  Six specific reasons a car looks worse on Marketplace than it does in your driveway, from the thumbnail crop to compression to the wide lens, and the ten minute fix for each.

• Remove the Background From Car Photos: Free Tools, and When They Stop Working

  The free ways to take the driveway out of a car photo, the five places a car defeats every one of them (glass, spokes, reflections, shadows, light), how to get a clean result by hand, and the point at which doing all twenty five yourself stops being worth it.

• How to Write a Used Car Listing Description (Template Included)

  The title line, the first sentence, the facts in the order a buyer wants them, the flaws stated plainly, and the eight phrases that lose sales. A fill-in template and a worked example you can copy.

• How to Make a Video of Your Car for Marketplace and Reels

  Two ways to get a short vertical video of the car you are selling: a thirty second walkaround filmed on your phone, step by step, or a clip made from the photos you already took. What to put on it, what to leave off, and where it goes.

Running a lot

• Used Car Photography for Dealers: What Every Option Costs in 2026

  Phone photos as-is, editing them yourself, a per-photo editing service, a photography contract, or per-vehicle processing. What each one costs an independent lot at thirty vehicles a month, with the numbers sourced and dated.

• Car Photo Background Replacement for Dealerships

  What background replacement actually does to a lot photo, the three ways software does it, what goes wrong with each, and the six things to check before you pick a tool for your inventory.

• The Best Way to Photograph Cars on a Lot With a Phone

  A repeatable process for an independent lot: one spot, one time of day, one shot list, and one person, so thirty cars a month come out looking like one store. About twelve minutes a car once it is set up.

• Vehicle Listing Videos for Dealers, Without Filming Anything

  What a listing video is for, the four ways a lot can get one, what a good one looks like (vertical, under thirty seconds, no music you do not own), where to post it, and how to have one for every car without anyone holding a phone up.

• Spyne Alternatives for Independent Lots

  Six alternatives to Spyne for a lot that wants studio-looking inventory photos without an annual contract or a sales call: CarCutter, Impel, CarPixAI, outsourced editing, doing it yourself, and per-vehicle processing. Prices checked August 2026, and a plain answer on which fits which lot.