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Real estate photo enhancementMake a room look like it did

Open up a dark room, balance the lamp light and keep the window from turning white.

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Room and property photos — one, or a whole listing at once. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and HEIC open here.

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A dark photo of a mountain-lake print held over a desk, brightened in one press
What it checks first

The interior preset brightens the room with the midtone curve and a shadow lift rather than raw gain, holds the window below white where the file still has detail, and balances for the room's lamps when daylight disagrees.

What the interior preset reads

Brightest 2% (the window)
How far the gain may go before the window clips
Average colour without the window
The room's own light
Agreement of the two estimates
Whether there are two lights in the frame
Share below the bottom two stops
How far the shadows are lifted
Median luminance
The midtone curve that brightens the room
Your two vertical lines
The keystone correction, when you ask for one

A worked example

A kitchen under warm LEDs: the median tone comes in under the band a well-exposed frame lands in, so an exposure is printed in stops; the frame’s average colour and its brightest one per cent agree closely, so the illuminant they describe is removed in full and printed in kelvin. Both lines open to show the figure they came from.

This page opens on the Interior preset. Straighten (G) sets leaning walls upright from two lines you place. Several photos at once open the folder queue.

Drop a dull photo here and we'll take a first pass at it. Room and property photos — one, or a whole listing at once. JPG, PNG, WebP, AVIF, BMP and HEIC open here.

Window held, room opened

An interior is the hardest everyday exposure: lamp-lit walls a few stops under the daylight in the window. The ordinary pass brightens a dark photo with a linear gain, which is right for most pictures and wrong here, because the same gain that lifts the sofa pushes the window to pure white. The interior preset caps that gain where the brightest two per cent of the frame would reach level 247, and lets the midtone curve — which holds both ends of the range still — and a shadow lift do the rest.

What the interior preset changes
StageOrdinary passInterior preset
Exposure gainaimed at the mediancapped so the brightest 2% stays under 247
White balancewhole framewindow left out when the two estimates disagree
Shadowsmeasuredmeasured, plus 30
Highlightsunchangedminus 35 — the bright end pulled back

Where the window was already pure white when the camera saved the file, nothing comes back; the clipping line in the readout says how much of the frame that is.

Two lights in one room

The light from the lamps is warm and the daylight is cool. The pass estimates the colour of the light twice — from the average colour of the frame and from its brightest one per cent — and in an interior those two disagree, because the brightest one per cent is the window. When they disagree strongly the estimates are taken again without the brightest two per cent, and the readout says Balanced for the room light, not the window.

Verticals, straightened by hand

A camera tilted up or down makes walls lean in. Open Straighten, choose Mark two verticals, and drag the two lines onto edges that are upright in the room. Both lines are set vertical with one plane-to-plane correction and the picture is cropped to the largest rectangle still inside it, so no empty corners appear. Nothing is detected automatically; the lean of each line is printed while you place it.

A whole listing

Select every photo of a property at once and the folder queue opens. Turn on Interior: rooms with windows and each file is measured on its own — its own window, its own lamps — with the preset's offsets on top. Already-correct files are still written back byte for byte, and everything comes back in one ZIP.

Limits

  • No sky replacement, virtual staging, object removal or merging of several exposures.
  • A window that was already pure white in the file stays white.
  • Straightening is placed by hand, two lines at a time; lines leaning more than 20° are refused as a rotated photo.

Questions people ask

Why do my room photos have white, empty windows?
Because a camera exposes for an average, and a room lit by lamps is many times darker than the daylight outside. Brighten the room by turning up the exposure and the window goes to pure white. The interior preset brightens the room with the midtone curve and a shadow lift instead, and holds the gain so the brightest two per cent of the frame — the window — stays under white where the file still has detail there.
Why does the room look yellow while the window looks blue?
Two lights: warm lamps inside, cool daylight outside. An ordinary white-balance estimate averages them and gets neither right. When the two estimates disagree strongly, the interior preset measures again with the brightest two per cent left out, which balances for the room's own light — the part buyers look at — and says so in the readout.
Can it straighten leaning walls?
Yes, by hand. Open Straighten, lay the two lines along edges that are vertical in the room — a door frame, a wall corner, a window side — and press Straighten. Both lines are set upright and the picture is cropped to what is still inside it. It is geometry, and the receipt records it as such.
Can I do a whole listing at once?
Yes. Select every photo of the property at once on this page or on the batch page, and turn on Interior: rooms with windows. Each photo is measured on its own with the window held and the room light balanced, and the results come back together in one ZIP.
Will it replace the sky or add furniture?
No. There is no sky replacement, virtual staging, object removal or merging of several exposures here. A listing photo should show the room as it is; this makes it look like it did to someone standing in it.
Are the photos uploaded?
No. Every photo stays on your device; the work happens in this tab.

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