Car Cutout

Cutout options#

Two flags cover the usual dealer and catalog cases. Both are available on the cutout endpoints. Separate shadow for client-side compositing comes from car layers.

• Baked shadow or separate shadow

  shadow_type=ai (default on the cutout endpoints) draws a soft cast shadow into the RGBA PNG. Set it to none for a clean cutout with no baked shadow.

  If you want to grade, fade, or reproject the shadow yourself, call /v1.0/car-layers-base64. That response keeps the cutout uncomposited and returns shadow_base64 as a grayscale mask (0 = no shadow, 255 = full shadow; null when shadow_type was none). Composite it in the browser or in your pipeline.

• Reconstruct windows, or skip them

  reconstruct_windows=true (default) opens glass interiors while keeping the body outline. Cabin and through-glass background drop out. RGB on the body stays the original photo unless a baked shadow is also enabled.

  Set reconstruct_windows=false when you only need the silhouette: a solid vehicle alpha with no glass holes. Useful for masks, collision proxies, or a simple turntable sprite.

Production API#

Production integrations call /v1.0/car-layers-base64 to receive the cutout and shadow as separate layers, or /v1.0/car-image-without-background-base64 for a single RGBA with window reconstruction and baked shadow by default. Binary sibling: /v1.0/car-image-without-background. To composite into studio or showroom scenes, see Car Backgrounding.

Sample gallery#

Three examples from the Pro Model car pipeline, with reconstructed windows and baked cast shadow.

Original

Pro Model

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