How to prepare pool images for rendering

Updated October 13, 2026

What to upload

An image of the pool you sell, in the Swatch slot: a finished pool that shows its interior finish, tile line, coping and the color of its water, or a sample board of the finish, tile and coping together. Renders build it into the ground of your scene as a real basin: coping with thickness, a tile line at the waterline, and clear water that reflects the sky and shows the floor and walls beneath.

A rock formation, a waterfall or a waterslide is built only when your image shows one, as a solid structure standing on the ground and meeting the coping. So show what you sell with the pool, and nothing you don't.

The lifestyle slot is optional. It is read only for how the water and finish behave in real light; the yard, the house and everything else in it are never copied.

The ideal image

The pool as a buyer would want to see theirs: full, clean and in daylight.

The whole pool in frame or, for a sample board, the finish, tile and coping side by side.
From a raised angle, looking down into the water, so the finish, the tile line and the coping all show.
Full and clean: water at its working level, with no cover, leaves or toys.
Even daylight, with no sun glare on the water. Glare hides the finish beneath it.
Any rock formation, waterfall or waterslide you sell with it, whole and in frame.
Only the surround you sell: a deck or paving around the pool in the image may be built with it.
True color, with no filter or edit. Pool water is easy to oversaturate.

Do this: Ideal
The finish, tile line and coping, true color.
Avoid: Sun on the water
The finish beneath reads as a pale patch.
Avoid: Too close
A few tiles say nothing about the whole pool.
Avoid: Leaves and toys
Anything in the image may be built with the pool.
Avoid: Color cast
Clear blue water turns green.
Avoid: Filter or edit
Boosted blue is what the buyer will expect.

Illustrations: the same sample each time, with one thing changed.

Measurements

Width and height are read as the pool's footprint.

Width, in inches: across the pool. Height, in inches: its length.
Depth, in inches: how deep the pool is.
Pools are large in inches: a 16 by 32 foot pool is 192 by 384.
Left blank, renders size it to the area in your scene and to a typical residential pool.
There's no pattern repeat for pools.

Before you save

Check each image:

The finish, tile line and coping, clearly shown.
Clean, full water, even daylight, no glare.
Only what you sell around it: rocks, a slide, the deck.
Width, length and depth entered, in inches.
JPEG, PNG or WebP, 4.5 MB or less.

Create your workspace, then choose a plan to render one of your pools before you prepare the rest.

Get started