When you edit real estate photos in our web app, you can adjust the settings of each photo or use the AI assistant to edit with prompts.

If you haven't edited your photos yet, see Add a listing and edit it.
In the My listings page, click Open gallery to review your listing.
Review your photos.
If you have a custom watermark, click Add custom watermark to all photos to upload a JPEG or PNG file. The file size is limited to 5 MB.
Click Download all, if there’s no need to adjust the photos.
To adjust a photo, click it to open it in the window. You can edit, crop, create masks, as well as use tools and the AI assistant on each photo.
When your edits are ready, continue to Download your photos.

Edit and adjust photos

To open a photo in the edit view, double-click it in the grid.

What is the edit panel?

The edit panel on the right gives you access to all your adjustment tools. Use the sliders in each section to tweak your photos.

To reset all sliders across all sections back to the values of the original photo, click Reset at the bottom of the panel.

Use the histogram to monitor your changes

The histogram at the top of the edit panel updates in real time as you make adjustments. Use it to monitor the tonal range and color distribution of your photo.

Adjust photos in the edit panel

The edit panel lets you adjust basic settings as well as more advanced settings like curves, HSL, point color, color grading, and more.

Basic panel

The Basic panel is where you make the most common adjustments to your photos. If an AI edit needs a nudge, this is usually where you’ll start.

White balance

White balance sets the overall color temperature of a photo. Use the Temp slider to make a photo warmer or cooler, and the Tint slider to correct for green or magenta casts.

Tone

The tone controls adjust how light and dark values are distributed across a photo.

Exposure adjusts the overall brightness of the photo.
Contrast increases or reduces the difference between light and dark areas.
Highlights recovers detail in bright areas or makes them brighter.
Shadows reveals detail in dark areas or deepens them.
Whites sets the brightest point in the photo.
Blacks sets the darkest point in the photo.

Presence

The presence controls affect texture, clarity, and color intensity.

Texture brings out or softens mid-sized surface details, like skin or fabric.
Clarity adds or reduces local contrast, affecting the overall sense of sharpness.
Dehaze removes or adds atmospheric haze.
Vibrance boosts the intensity of less-saturated colors without oversaturating skin tones.
Saturation adjusts the intensity of all colors evenly.

Tone curves

The Tone curves panel gives you precise control over the tonal range of your photos. It’s useful for targeted adjustments that go beyond what the Basic panel’s tone sliders can do.

The diagonal line represents the full tonal range of the photo, from shadows on the left to highlights on the right. Click anywhere on the line to add a point and drag it to adjust that part of the tonal range. You can work on all channels together (the white curve) or switch to the red, green, or blue channel individually for color adjustments.

HSL

The HSL panel lets you adjust individual colors in a photo without affecting the rest of the photo. It’s ideal for targeted color corrections after AI editing, like shifting a sky’s blue tone or pulling back oversaturated greens.

The panel is organized into 3 tabs, each controlling a different property of the 8 color ranges: Red, Orange, Yellow, Green, Aqua, Blue, Purple, and Magenta.

Hue shifts the color itself. Moving a slider changes that color toward its neighbor on the color wheel.
Saturation controls the intensity of each color. Drag left to mute a color, right to make it more vivid.
Luminance adjusts the brightness of each color independently.

Color grading

The Color grading slider controls how broadly the adjustment affects similar colors. A lower value targets only colors close to the one you sampled. A higher value spreads the adjustment to a wider range of similar colors.

The Hue, Saturation, and Luminance sliders let you fine-tune exactly which colors fall within the selection, giving you precise control over where the adjustment begins and ends.

You can sample up to 8 colors per photo, each with its own independent adjustments.

The panel has 4 modes, selected by the tabs at the top: Shadows, Midtones, Highlights, and Global. Each mode targets a different part of the tonal range. Global applies adjustments across the entire photo at once.

Blending controls how smoothly the adjustments transition between the shadow, midtone, and highlight ranges. Balance shifts the boundary between shadows and highlights, giving you more control over which tones are affected by each adjustment.

Detail panel

The Detail panel handles sharpening and noise reduction. These adjustments are typically one of the last things to check after AI editing, since they affect the fine texture and clarity of a photo.

Sharpening increases edge definition across the photo. The default value of 40 works well for most photos.

Noise reduction reduces grain and digital noise, most commonly introduced in low-light or high-ISO shots.

Noise (Lum) smooths out brightness-based noise, which appears as a grainy texture.
Noise (Color) reduces color noise, which appears as random colored speckles in the photo.

Effects panel

The Effects panel adds creative finishing touches to a photo. Unlike the Lens panel’s vignette correction, the effects here are intentional stylistic choices.

Vignette

Adds a darkening or brightening around the edges of the frame to draw attention to the center of the photo. The Amount slider controls the strength and direction: drag left for a dark vignette, right for a light one. The remaining sliders refine the shape of the vignette:

Feather controls how gradually the vignette fades toward the center.
Midpoint sets how far the vignette extends toward the center of the photo.
Roundness adjusts the shape from oval to rectangular.
Highlights preserves highlight detail within the vignette area.

Grain

Adds film-style grain to a photo. The Amount slider sets the intensity. Size controls how large the individual grain particles appear, and Roughness adjusts how uniform or irregular the grain pattern looks.

Calibration

The Calibration panel adjusts how the editor interprets the raw color data in a photo. It works at a deeper level than the HSL or Color grading panels, affecting the underlying color response rather than the appearance of specific tones or ranges.

It’s most useful for correcting a consistent color cast that appears across a series of photos, or for pushing the color response of a photo in a creative direction.

The panel has 3 color primaries: Red, Green, and Blue. Each has 2 sliders:

Hue shifts the primary color toward a neighboring hue, which affects how that color family is rendered across the entire photo.
Saturation controls the intensity of that primary color throughout the photo.

Transform

The Transform panel corrects perspective and alignment issues.

Rotate straightens the horizon by rotating the photo.

Crop, straighten, rotate, and flip

Click the Crop tab for cropping tools.

Choose a crop aspect ratio

Choose a preset ratio: Original, 1:1, 2:3, 3:4, 4:5, 5:7, 8.5:11, or 9:16, or click Custom to set your own. Drag the crop handles to adjust the crop area, or drag inside the crop area to reposition the photo within it.

Click Constrain Crop to keep the selected aspect ratio while you resize with the handles. Disable it to resize freely.

Straighten

Drag the Angle slider to straighten a tilted horizon or vertical lines.

Rotate and flip

Use the four buttons to rotate the photo counterclockwise or clockwise, or flip it horizontally or vertically.

Click Reset to undo all crop, straighten, and rotate changes, or Save to apply them.

Mask parts of photos

Masks let you adjust a specific part of a photo instead of the whole thing. Use them to brighten a face, tone down a bright window, or adjust the sky separately from the rest of the scene.

Create a mask

Click the Mask tab, then click + Paint a new mask. Brush over the area you want to mask.

This opens the mask's own settings, where you can keep refining it.

Edit a mask's brush strokes

Each mask has a Brush section with two modes: Add paints more area into the mask, and Erase removes area from it. Switch between them, then brush over the photo.

Size sets how big your brush is, and Feather softens the edge of your strokes. Click Reset next to Brush to return these to their defaults.

Adjust a mask

Use the sliders under Adjustments to edit just the masked area: Temperature, Tint, Exposure, Contrast, Highlights, Shadows, Whites, Blacks, Clarity, Texture, Dehaze, Saturation, and Sharpness. These control the same things as their counterparts in the Basic and Detail panels, but only affect the masked area.

Choose a color under Overlay color to change how the mask displays on your photo.

Click Reset at the bottom of the panel to clear all changes to the mask, or Save to apply them.

Manage your masks

Click All masks at the top of a mask's settings to see every mask on the photo. From this list, you can:

Create a mask: Click + Paint a new mask.
Rename a mask: Click into the mask to open its settings, then edit the name field at the top.
Hide or show a mask: Click the eye icon next to the mask.
Delete a mask: Click the trash icon next to the mask.

The eye icon next to Masks at the top of the list toggles all masks at once.

Enhance and update with real estate tools

If you want to blur private details, draw property lines, or add a watermark, click Tools.

Privacy blur hides sensitive details like faces, license plates, or computer screens. You set the brush size, blur strength, and area of the feathering.

Draw property lines lets you click and drag to mark the property lines. You set the color of the lines and labels.

Add watermark overlays “Digitally altered” to the photo.

Remove unwanted objects from your listing photo

Use the Object Removal brush to paint over objects you don’t want in the listing photo, and AI removes them. Your changes are tracked in the AI Assistant history, and you can undo them or use the AI Assistant to continue to enhance your photo.

Click the AI tab to access Object Removal and AI Assistant.
Expand Object Removal, and change the brush size, if needed.
Paint over the objects you want to remove in the photo. In this case, we painted over the signs in the window.
Click Remove object. The objects are removed, and the change shows up in the AI Assistant history.
If you want to remove the change, click Undo removal. You can undo the removal once.
If you want to remove the object again, go back to step 3.
If you want to make more changes, continue with the AI Assistant. In this case, for example, the view from the window isn't clear enough.

The AI Assistant fixed the blurry window in this case.

AI assistant with ready-made prompts or your own

Click the AI tab, and enter a prompt to adjust the photo. Click the ready-made prompts for quick one-click edits, or enter your own. Below, for example, see the results of the prompt for virtual staging.

Each prompt is a new version of the photo, and it builds on what you did before. For example, if you write a prompt to change the light to twilight, you can continue to tweak the lighting with related prompts in the AI Assistant. If you don’t like a change, start again from a prompt where the results were good. The new prompts will overwrite the results you didn’t like. Click Save.

If you’re not happy with the end result of the AI Assistant, click Request human revision to get one of our experts to help. After you ask for help, the photo will be labeled Revision requested. Imagen's team reviews and edits the photo within a few hours. The updated version replaces the current one in your listing, and you'll get an email notification. The photo is then labeled Revision completed.

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