Drop in the photos you took of a unit on your phone. Get them back sized for a listing, named by stock number in the order you shot them, with the phone’s GPS location taken out, in one ZIP. No signup, and the photos never leave your browser.
Published 17 September 2026 · Published by Shopframe, a dealer website platform — see the disclosure below the tool.
The short answer
A photo straight off a current phone is usually 4,000 pixels wide or more and 3 to 12 MB. A listing needs about half that width: around 2,000 pixels on the long side is sharp full-screen on a laptop and a small fraction of the file, so the page loads on a shopper’s phone before they give up on it.
Shoot in landscape, in open shade or on an overcast day, with every unit photographed in the same order from the same angles. And check what the file carries: a JPEG taken with the camera’s location access switched on stores the GPS coordinates of where it was taken. The resizer below tells you, photo by photo, and the copies it makes carry no location at all.
1 · The resizer
Choose photos, or drop them on the box. They are read and resized by this page in your browser: no request is made with them and nothing is stored. Reloading the page clears them.
Drop the photos of one unit here
JPEG, PNG or WebP. iPhone HEIC photos open in Safari; in other browsers, share them as JPEG first.
Disclosure, up front: Shopframe sells dealer websites, and this resizer runs the same code as the photo upload in our Site Manager: a photo larger than 2048 pixels or 2 MB, or one carrying a location, is resized and saved again the same way before it goes on the dealer’s site. We added that to the product while writing this page, because until 17 September 2026 our own upload sent the phone’s original file.
2 · The shot list: the same photos, in the same order, for every unit
The first photo is the one shoppers see on the inventory page and in a link preview, so it matters most. A consistent order lets a shopper compare two units side by side, and it lets whoever takes the photos finish a unit without thinking about it.
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Shot
How
1
Front three-quarter, driver side
The hero. Stand back far enough to leave space around the vehicle, hold the phone at about headlight height, and turn the front wheels slightly so the face of the wheel shows.
2
Side profile
Square to the vehicle, centered on the middle of the wheelbase.
3
Rear three-quarter, passenger side
Mirror of the hero, from the opposite corner.
4
Straight front and straight rear
Two photos. Center the badge; these are the shots that show a crooked bumper.
5
Driver’s seat and dash
From the open driver’s door, low, so the steering wheel, the center screen and the shifter are all in frame.
6
Instrument cluster
With the ignition on, if the unit has a gauge. A travel trailer, a pontoon without a helm display or anything else without one simply skips it.
7
Front seats, rear seats
From the doorways. Show wear honestly; a shopper who finds a torn seat in person does not come back to the listing.
8
Cargo area, engine bay
Bed, trunk or storage, then the engine with the hood up.
9
Wheels and tires
One wheel close up, so tread depth and the wheel’s condition are visible.
10
Anything a shopper would find
Dents, scratches, curb rash, a chipped windshield. Photographed plainly and listed last.
Boats, RVs and powersports follow the same idea with their own angles: the helm, the hull and the outboard for a boat; the floor plan from the door, the slide-outs extended and the galley for an RV.
3 · Photographing a lot with a phone
Wipe the lens. A phone lives in a pocket, and a fingerprint on the lens is the most common reason a phone photo looks hazy.
Pick the light, not the spot. Open shade or an overcast sky gives even light on paint. Midday sun puts hard reflections and black shadows on the vehicle; if it is the only time you have, turn the vehicle so the sun is behind you.
Hold the phone sideways. A listing page, a link preview and most listing sites show photos wider than they are tall. A portrait photo gets cropped or shown with bars on both sides.
Use your feet, not the zoom. On many phones pinching to zoom only enlarges part of the picture, so it gets softer. If the phone has a 2× or 3× button, that switches to a real lens and is fine to use.
Keep the background quiet. One clean spot on the lot, used for every unit, beats a different cluttered background each time. Move other vehicles, cones and trash cans out of frame.
Make the unit look ready to sell. Washed, interior cleared of personal items and paperwork, dealer plates and window stickers straight, windows up.
Shoot more than you need, then cut. Delete the blurred and the near-duplicate shots before running them through the resizer, so the numbering follows the order a shopper will see.
Resize before you upload. Photos of 3 to 12 MB each make a listing slow on mobile data, and many upload forms reject files that large. Around 2048 pixels on the long side is plenty.
4 · What a phone photo carries besides the picture
A JPEG from a phone holds a block of information called EXIF next to the image itself: the make and model of the phone, the date and time it was taken, how the phone was held, and, when the camera has location access, the latitude and longitude. Whoever downloads the original file can read it.
For photos taken on your own lot the location is your public address. For a unit photographed somewhere else — at an auction, at a seller’s home, at your own house on a weekend — it is not something to publish. The resizer reads each JPEG you drop in and says whether it found a location. The copies it makes are drawn fresh from the pixels and saved again, so they carry no EXIF at all: no location, no phone model and no date.
The resizer can only read the location in a JPEG. PNG and WebP files are converted too, and the converted copies carry no location either way.
Your photos, on a website that looks after them
Shopframe’s Site Manager takes photos straight from your phone on the lot, resizes them the same way and removes the location, and the first photo becomes that unit’s picture on your site and in link previews — on every plan, from $29 a month. Tell us about your lot and we will send you a preview of your site.
5 · Questions dealers ask about listing photos
What size should car listing photos be?
About 2,000 pixels on the long side, in landscape, saved as JPEG. That is sharp full-screen on a laptop and usually a few hundred kilobytes, where the original from a current phone is often 4,000 pixels or more and several megabytes. Check the listing site's own upload page for its limits before a large batch.
Do my phone photos show where they were taken?
They can. When the camera app has location access, a phone stores the GPS latitude and longitude inside each JPEG, and anyone with the original file can read it. The resizer reports, photo by photo, whether it found a location, and the copies it makes carry none.
Are my photos uploaded when I use the resizer?
No. The photos are read, resized and zipped by this page in your browser, and no request is made with them. Reloading the page clears them. The only thing that reaches Shopframe is the preview form, and only if you fill it in.
What order should dealership photos go in?
Start with the front three-quarter view from the driver's side, since the first photo is the one on the inventory page and in link previews. Then the side, the rear three-quarter, straight front and rear, the dash, the instrument cluster if the unit has one, the seats, cargo and engine, a wheel, and any damage last. Use the same order for every unit.
Why are the downloaded files named by stock number?
So a batch from one unit cannot get mixed up with the next one, and so they sort in the order you shot them: the stock number, then 01, 02 and so on. Leave the stock number blank and the files are named photo-01, photo-02.
Does Shopframe resize photos automatically?
Yes. On every plan, a photo uploaded in the Site Manager that is larger than 2048 pixels or 2 MB, or that carries a location, is resized and saved again in the browser before it is uploaded, with the same code as this page. A smaller photo with no location is uploaded as it is.