BeforeAfterPro templateCar DetailingNiche
Car Dark
Niche category, on a 9:16 vertical canvas, with Bebas Neue labels reading Before and After, over a gradient ground. Drag the handle to see it work.
BeforeAfterThe job it is forCar Detailing pack
What Car Dark is for
A very dark blue ground, a four point electric blue rule, blue condensed caps, vertical, no corner radius at all. Paint correction is what it is for: swirl marks, a machine polish, a headlight restoration, all of which are photographed under a light and all of which read better on a dark frame than on a light one. The tall canvas suits a single panel top to bottom.
Behind the pair sits a 2 stop gradient, #050A14 through #001A33, drawn by the frame itself. A 4 point #0088FF divider splits the canvas, and the Bebas Neue labels sit bottom centre. The canvas is 9:16 vertical, square, with no radius at all, and the labels arrive reading Before and After.
The specificationExtracted, not typed
Every value in Car Dark, as the build holds it
What makes a trade template a trade template lives mostly in the small values: the wording already sitting in the labels, the palette, the crop it was cut to. The geometry is drawn below at the app's drawing scale, and the panel next to it lists the record's words, default labels included, so the retyping you avoid is visible up front.
- Canvas9:16
- Rule4 pt
- LabelsBottom centre
- BandNone
- Canvas
- 9:16 vertical
- Label face
- Bebas Neue
- Label corner
- Bottom centre
- Rule
- 4 pt
- Corners
- Square
- Ground
- 2 stop gradient
- Branding
- Overlaid, no band
- Date stamp
- Off by default
- Default wording
- Before and After
- Pack
- Car Detailing
- Frame#050A14
- Ground stop 1#050A14
- Ground stop 2#001A33
- Rule#0088FF
- Label#0088FF
Read out of the shipped app build by the catalogue extractor, not typed.
Shooting for itNiche category
How to shoot a pair for Car Dark
Trade work is judged by people who do the same work, so the pair has to survive an expert eye. Hair and makeup need the same head angle and the same light, because a chin lifted two inches reads as a different face. Nails need one fixed distance, hands in the same position both times. Detailing and landscaping need the wide shot before the close-up, or nobody believes the panel belongs to the car. A pair that would satisfy somebody in your trade will satisfy a customer easily.
In orderWritten for niche work
- 01Take the before before you start work, not after you have half finished. This is the step every trade skips and every trade regrets.
- 02Mark your standing spot. A tile, a chair leg, a wheel arch, a paving stone: something that will still be there when you shoot the after.
- 03Shoot the after from that mark with Ghost Camera on, then take a second one a step closer for the detail.
- 04Pick the pack for your trade. The label wording and the palette are already right, so the only real decision left is the canvas shape.
- 05Add your business name in the branding strip if the template reserves one, then export. Trade work gets shared, and a name in the frame travels with it.
Trade work gets judged by people who do the same work, so hold the pair up to that eye before it goes out. The browser slider tool does it on your own device in about two seconds, and the guide to fake-looking pairs is built around the mistakes trade pairs make most often.
Honest limitsTwo of them, and both are real
What Car Dark will not do
A template tuned to a trade is a palette and a default label, nothing more. It does not know your subject, and it will happily frame a pair that does not match. The two hardest cases in this category are honest ones: hair and makeup change with the light, so a warm salon bulb over the after does most of the work you were hoping the haircut would do, and a pet photographed wet looks like a different animal from a pet photographed dry. Shoot both frames dry, in the same spot, or the post argues with itself.
On this template in particularThe gradient is part of the template rather than a filter over your photographs, so it cannot be turned off or recoloured. If the ground is fighting your subject, the fix is a different template rather than a setting.
If this one is not itFour questions, four answers
Without upgrading
BeforeAfterOpens on the free tier, on a 9:16 vertical canvas with Inter Bold labels.
Same pack, other end
BeforeAfterA lighter ground in the same pack, with a 3 point #C0C0C0 rule.
Same label face
BeforeAfterAlso set in Bebas Neue, so a series can change frame without changing voice.
Nearby in the catalogue
BeforeAfterclean category, 1:1 square, Free pack.
After the frame, the pair and the captionFor car detailing work
Back up to every niche template, or to the whole catalogue. The free browser slider is at the slider tool, and the hashtag research by trade starts at the hashtag index.
Common questions
- Who is the Car Dark template for?
- A very dark blue ground, a four point electric blue rule, blue condensed caps, vertical, no corner radius at all. Paint correction is what it is for: swirl marks, a machine polish, a headlight restoration, all of which are photographed under a light and all of which read better on a dark frame than on a light one. The tall canvas suits a single panel top to bottom.
- When should I use something other than Car Dark?
- A blue car in a blue frame loses its edge, and blue is one of the commonest colours on a forecourt. Car Metallic's grey ground is neutral to every paint colour there is.
- Is Car Dark free?
- No, it is one of the Pro templates. The free tier opens 8 of the 100, and everything else in the editor is free with them: all four comparison modes, Ghost Camera, the filters, the stickers, the full label editor, and your own logo and business name.
- What shape is Car Dark, and what will it export at?
- The template's canvas is 9:16 vertical. The export ratio is a separate choice made in the export sheet: 9:16 and 1:1 on the free tier, plus 4:5 and the original ratio on Pro. 9:16 is among them, so the canvas and the export can match exactly.
- Can I change the BEFORE and AFTER wording?
- Yes. Car Dark starts with "Before" and "After", and every part of that is editable: the text, the typeface, the colour, the size, bold and italic, uppercase, a shadow, the background opacity, and the position, either one of five presets or dragged anywhere on the canvas.
- Can I compare two video clips with this?
- Not at all. Take a photograph before the job and a photograph after it; that pair is the entire input, and the app turns it into a reveal. Filming the job and cutting it down is a different tool's work.
Put your own pair in Car Dark
Two photographs, one template, and a reveal that plays in about four seconds. Three exports a day are free, each behind a short rewarded ad.
Get the app freeiPhone, iOS 17 and later