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Build your Studio

Custom car photo backgrounds, built to your dealership's look.

Compose your own photography environment — room, backdrop, lighting, branding — and save it as your signature look. Every car you process drops into the same studio automatically.

What it does

A studio you design — not a preset everyone else uses.

Most car photography software gives you a fixed set of generic backgrounds — pick from a list, same as every other dealer, and your listings look like everyone else's. Motuva Studio is one you design: room shape, backdrop colour, lighting angle and tone, built to your brand. Save it and every car after goes into the same space — your stock looks shot in a dedicated facility you never had to hire.

Save more than one — a light neutral setup for standard stock, a darker premium one for performance cars, a clean white backdrop for manufacturer-style imagery — and switch per vehicle or per batch.

Why it matters to a dealer

Consistency is what makes a stock page look professional.

Mixed backgrounds — some outdoor, some white, some dark — read as disorganised, and buyers notice; one shared environment reads as a curated gallery with the car as the focus. A custom studio also sets you apart from dealers running the same generic presets, and for groups it's one brand standard applied automatically across every site.

Where it fits in your workflow

Build it once at setup. After that, every car uses it.

Build it once at setup — a few minutes. After that every car uses it: upload, select your studio, download. On bulk uploads the same studio applies across the whole batch.

How it works

How build your studio works.

Step 01

Open Studio settings

Open Studio settings in the web or mobile app.

Step 02

Choose your environment

Choose your environment — room shape, backdrop, lighting. Adjust to the look you want.

Step 03

Save it as a named studio

Save it as a named studio ("Main Stock", "Performance", "Manufacturer Style").

Step 04

Process your car

Upload your photo and Motuva places the vehicle into the studio you built, re-rendered with accurate light, reflections, and shadow.

Step 05

Use it every time

The same studio is ready for the next car. Apply to one vehicle or a full day's stock in bulk.

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Upload your first car photo, see a studio shot back in seconds. No card, no demo call, no commitment. If it works, Pro from £49/mo — unlimited at £99.