Rule 1 – Choose the right background

• Try to avoid having other vehicles in the background (e.g. taking the picture in a busy car park).
• Try to avoid an ugly background (e.g. wheelie bins/rubbish/etc in the background).
• Try to avoid having people in the background (it’s OK to send one with you stood with the car though).
• Try to avoid having a ‘busy’ background (we recommend things such as a wall, trees, fields, or an empty car park).
• Try to leave plenty of background on show (e.g. don’t fill too much of the photo with your car)

See below for a comparison (good example on top / bad example below)

Rule 2 – Image size and quality

• Try to take the picture in daylight as most smart phones can’t cope well with poor lighting.
• Try not to apply filters before sending us the picture, as these usually negatively affect image quality.
• Make sure the image size is at least 1000px wide x 500px high (most smart phones will be larger by default).
• Avoid sending us images that are blurry, taken with poor lighting, pixelated or too small.

See below for a comparison (good example on top / bad example below)

See below for another comparison (good example on top / bad example below)

Rule 3 – Don’t stand too close, don’t hold camera too high!

• Stand at least 5 metres away from the car – around 2 car lengths away is perfect!
• Try to hold the camera around waist height, this will give the car a meaner appearance when photographed!
• Try to get the bottom of the car to sit parallel with the bottom of the photo

See below for a comparison (good example on top / bad example below)

See below for another comparison (note how holding the camera LOWER looks better)

Rule 4 – Make sure the WHOLE car is in the picture!

• Stand at least 2 car lengths away from the car (around 5 metres)
• Make sure the car takes up no more than 50% of the image – leave plenty of background
• Make sure the car either sits nice and central in the image, OR sits in the bottom left, or bottom right corner
• DO NOT have the car sitting in the top half of the image – it won’t look right

See below for a comparison (good example on top / bad example below)

See below for another comparison (good example on top / bad example below)

Rule 5 – Don’t apply filters if possible!

• Try not to send us photos where you’ve applied filters using your phone or Instagram etc.
• Unfortunately these sort of mobile-based editors massively reduce image quality.
• Always try and find the original photo and send us that.
• We will apply filters and play around with contrast levels etc to make the image look awesome anyway!