Remove a Car from a Photo — Pro, on our server
A car is a big mask on a kind surface, which is an unusual combination. Most large removals fail because the surface behind them carries structure. A vehicle usually stands on tarmac, gravel, block paving or concrete — materials with texture but no direction, no rhythm and no line that has to arrive anywhere in particular. The road therefore closes as convincingly as sky does, even across the width of an estate car. The difficulty lives entirely above the wheels, in the strip of scene the bodywork was blocking: a kerb, the base of a garden wall, a hedge bottom, a low fence, a gatepost, and frequently the front of whatever was parked behind. Those are horizontals, and horizontals are what the eye audits without being told to.
Mask the vehicle plus everything it put into the picture. Wing mirrors, a roof aerial, a tow bar and a roof box all sit outside the shape people paint, and a surviving aerial floating over an empty road is a comic result. Underneath, there is nearly always a dark band where the body shaded the ground, and on a wet road or beside a shopfront there will be a reflection carrying a recognisable copy of the car. All of that belongs in the same mask, which is one run whatever it holds. If the car is cut by the frame edge, paint straight off the border; there is no penalty for a mask that overruns the picture, and a stub of wing left at the edge is the most common leftover.
Inspect by tracing lines, not by looking at texture. The tarmac will look right, because tarmac always does. Put the finished PNG at full size and follow the kerb from one side of the filled region to the other, then the wall base, then any painted marking. What you are looking for is a step in height, a change of angle, a bay whose dashes do not match its neighbours. Those are the reconstruction showing through, and they are fixable: paint over that short section of the returned image and run it alone, which gives the model a small isolated problem instead of a large one. The same discipline applies to the cables overhead, which are usually the other thing wrong with a street photograph and are painted out in the same pass on the object remover.
Where this fits, and the terms of the run. For property exteriors, cars are one item on a list that also holds bins, signage and wheelie boxes — the workflow for the whole sweep is on photo clean-up, and the interior equivalent is furniture removal. For a general account of which removals are worth attempting at all, read unwanted objects. Resizing the finished images for a listing or a portal is free, on-device work in the image compressor, which uploads nothing. The removal is Cloud HD — Pro-only, opt-in, on our GPU in the United States, encrypted in transit, deleted when the run finishes and in all cases within 24 hours, and never used to train anything. Pro allows 150 runs a month on Monthly and 200 on Annual, of which 10 may be HD.