Dealer stock photos: blur every plate in bulk
A repeatable workflow for dealer photo sets: upload a whole shoot, get consistent plate blurring on every image, and download one ZIP for the listing system.
Why dealers blur plates on every stock photo
Stock photos go to the dealer website, the classifieds feed, social accounts and the manufacturer's portal. Each of those keeps the image long after the car is sold, so a visible plate ties the previous owner's vehicle history to every copy. Blurring the plate once, before the photos leave the dealership, keeps the whole chain clean.
Consistency matters as much as privacy. Buyers scroll a grid of thirty cars, and a mix of visible, cropped and badly smudged plates looks like a mix of standards. The same blur on every car at the same strength reads as a house style.
A repeatable workflow
Shoot as usual: walk-around exterior, three-quarter front and rear, interior, dash. Drop the whole set into the editor in one go. The license plate in each exterior frame is detected and blurred with the same style and strength, and interior frames with no plate pass through untouched, so you can upload the full folder without sorting it first.
Scan the thumbnails for anything missed, such as a plate reflected in a showroom window or a dealer plate leaning against the wall, draw a region over it, and export. Download one ZIP, and the filenames keep your original names with a suffix, so they drop straight into the listing system.
Batch size and credits
The editor takes a batch of photos at a time, and the ZIP export runs in the background while you load the next car. Five photos a month are free; a dealer doing a few cars a week will want a pack. Packs are priced for volume, credits never expire, and the same pack works across the whole team's browsers once restored with the purchase email.
Each export costs one credit regardless of size, so shoot at full resolution and let the editor keep it: the exported files are the same pixel size as the originals.
Styles that fit a brand
A soft blur is the default and the least noticeable. A pixelated plate reads as deliberate; a solid block can carry a brand colour; a sticker covers the plate completely for a playful listing. Pick one and keep it for every car, because the choice is part of the photo style.
Whatever the style, the number plate itself is unreadable in the export, and the camera's location data is stripped so the photo does not reveal where the car was shot.
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