We totally get it!
Sometimes the sky is washed out, or the grass is dead, or someone accidentally left the trash bin out on the day the photos were taken. No worries! We’re Photoshop experts and can make your MLS photos look spectacular!
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Does this sound familiar?
The photographer schedules the photo shoot for Wednesday afternoon…and it turns out the sky is gray and cloudy, or the sun is behind the house, causing the front of the home to be in shadows. Or, the time of the year isn’t great because all of the landscaping is now dormant and brown. Your “picture-perfect” listing suddenly looks “picture-average”, which is not ideal when home shoppers are scrolling past 100’s of properties based on the main image!
Don’t worry…we can help with that!
Real Estate Savvy Designers
Your Sellers Will Love It!
Reduce Days on Market!
We’re experts at making your property look AMAZING!! Whether it’s a simple sky replacement, or removing unwanted items in the photo, or revitalizing the grass and shrubbery, our team of graphic designers can help you get that house SOLD! We’ll help you attract more attention to your listing and cause more home shoppers to “swipe right” when they see your listing in a more attractive light!
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Some agents have been led to believe that virtual staging of any kind is deceptive, but that’s not how most MLS’s look at it. And NAR has many articles available on their own website regarding the effective and successful use of virtual staging. What we’re providing is essentially the same as virtual staging for interior photos, except these are for the outside of the home. For over a decade, many real estate photographers nationwide have routinely replaced dreary skies in their exterior photos or offered interior virtual staging services to show what an empty room might look like with furniture. We simply take virtual staging to the exterior of the home in a limited fashion. But let’s be clear on the most important detail; We will NEVER alter the permanent structure of the home (which is what NAR and local MLS’s are concerned about!) In other words, we’re never going to make a 2-car garage look like three, or Photoshop a pool into the backyard when there isn’t one. The only items we’ll ever change are things that can easily change on their own depending on weather, or season, or simply getting rid of clutter (i.e. trash bins) that perhaps should have been stashed away prior to the photo-shoot.
We’ll also place a label on the photo that says “Enhanced Photo” if requested and recommend that virtual staging be mentioned it in the public remarks. So if it’s time to make your listing look its absolute very best…let us give you a hand!
How much does it cost?
Frequently Asked Questions
Turnaround Times and Super Rushes
How’s 15 minutes sound?
For most enhancements (except the more involved “The Works”) we’ll often have the photo back to you within 15 minutes! Of course, that depends on how busy we are with flyers, brochures, postcards, etc. But typically, we’ll have the corrected photo back in your hands ASAP. If we’re doing “The Works”, we’ll try to have it over to you by the end of the day…or always within 24 hours!
What if We Need More than One Photo Enhanced?
No Problem!
We know that are many times that an agent will use more than one photo of the front (different angles)…and may need additional photos enhanced so they all look similar. There are also backyards to consider, so give us a call and let’s talk about it! The pricing shown is for per photo on each listing (even the free corrections). But we’ll see if we can reduce your overall cost and have ALL of the photos look great!
Who Owns the Rights to the Photos?
Do YOU own the photos…or does the PHOTOGRAPHER?
A somewhat hotly contested issue in today’s real estate market is who owns the right to the photos you paid to have taken of the property?? You…or the photographer? N.A.R. has addressed this on several occasions. Standard copyright law says that whoever takes the photo…owns all rights to the photo. UNLESS…they assign the rights to the agent/brokerage (which we highly recommend!). To facilitate that, there’s a form that some agents have the photographer sign which handles the assignment of those rights (see below). That form transfers all rights to the photos FROM the photographer TO the agent/brokerage. However, almost ALL photographers use a form of their own which is simply a licensing agreement, whereby the photographer still owns the rights to the photos, but is allowing the agent to use them under specific circumstances. You can find examples of those agreements here. We recommend always using the ASSIGNMENT AGREEMENT found here.
If you do not own the rights to the photos of your listing, we’ll require that either you or the photographer complete our Photo Release Form which you can find here: https://luxuryhomebrochures.com/photorelease
Can You Do High Resolution Photos Too?
Yes, of course, but only if we’re doing a flyer or brochure layout on the property. Otherwise, we’ll only do MLS-ready photos. : )
Can We Use the Photos On Social Media Too?
Absolutely!! Instagram, Facebook, YouTube, WHEREVER!! Our goal is to help your listing sell as quickly as possible! That’s kind of our company’s mantra!
Invoice & Payment
As you may have noticed, we aren’t using a traditional shopping cart on our website. Instead, we’ll email an invoice which you can pay from directly. We never collect your credit card information, nor do we store it anywhere on our system. Instead, we use Authorize.net (one of the nation’s largest and most secure credit card processors) to handle each of our credit card transactions. Optionally, you can elect to pay by using Zelle. Either way, doing business with us is a safe and incredibly secure transaction!
