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Condo photography enhancement for US condo listings

Condo photography is the hardest interior category in real estate: tight vertical frames, HOA rules on what the pool deck and lobby can show, and a high-rise window exposure that blows out every floor-to-ceiling pane unless the camera is bracketed correctly. Plotpane is built for condo photography specifically — one editorial grade across the deeded unit and the shared amenities, window-pull recovery that reads the Manhattan skyline or Miami bay through the glass, and a pipeline that handles same-day HOA revisions without killing the listing timeline.

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A raw concrete-and-steel Chicago River penthouse, a blank skyline-facing shell transformed into a sophisticated masculine urban retreat. — enhanced by Plotpane

A raw concrete-and-steel Chicago River penthouse, a blank skyline-facing shell transformed into a sophisticated masculine urban retreat. — original listing photo before editing

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Built for US condo photography — StreetEasy, Zillow, Redfin, Trulia

US condo buyers shop portal-first, and each portal compresses differently. StreetEasy — the default for every Manhattan condo listing below 96th Street — re-encodes hero images aggressively and flattens shadow detail in dim-lit foyer shots. Zillow and Redfin resample for mobile-first galleries, so a 4K master with clean mid-tones survives the downrez while an over-sharpened 1080p source turns mushy. Trulia pulls from the Zillow feed but crops hero differently. Before any of that matters, the HOA photo policy rules: most Manhattan co-ops, Miami high-rises, and Chicago condo towers restrict identifiable residents in amenity frames, prohibit back-of-house (mail room, service corridor, loading dock) capture, and many now route photo approvals through BuildingLink before the MLS feed goes live. Plotpane bakes those constraints into the preset.

Unit plus amenity shoot split — one grade, 4K export, seconds not hours

Condo listings are structurally two shoots: 8-12 unit frames (living, kitchen, primary, secondary bedrooms, bathrooms, balcony view) and 4-8 amenity frames (lobby, pool deck, fitness, clubroom, package room if it differentiates). Those are almost never shot on the same day or under the same light — the pool deck wants golden hour, the unit wants flat noon fill. Without a consistent grade the gallery reads as two disconnected sets and the buyer's eye notices. Plotpane's Editorial preset locks the color register across both groups: the quartz in the kitchen and the travertine on the pool deck read as the same property. Output is 4K, priced inside a flat monthly plan that replaces the $4-$8/image retoucher charge most Manhattan and Miami agents are absorbing today. Turnaround is 90 seconds per frame, not the 24-48 hours a retouching vendor quotes.

Condo association disclosure and MLS rules — the added complexity

Condo listings carry MLS disclosure requirements that single-family doesn't. REBNY in NYC, MRED in Chicago, SEFMLS in South Florida, and MLSPIN in Boston all require photo authenticity disclosure when an image has been materially altered — the sky replaced, seasonal foliage changed, or staging composited into an empty room. Condo associations layer on top: many Miami high-rises and SF condo towers (Millennium Tower, One Rincon, Lumina) require management pre-approval of any amenity photo before it can be syndicated. Plotpane preserves the XMP disclosure tag on every export so the MLS field is auditable, keeps a render log for any material edit, and its 90-second turnaround means a kicked-back HOA revision ships the same morning rather than pushing the launch a week. The provenance-sensitive reviews Boston and Chicago buildings are increasingly running stop being a blocker.

Unit and amenity shots locked to one editorial grade
Window-pull recovery for floor-to-ceiling high-rise glass
Item removal for resident, brand logo, or service-area capture
4K export sized for StreetEasy, Zillow, Redfin, Trulia hero
XMP disclosure preserved for REBNY, MRED, MLSPIN audit

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Local questions, answered

How much does professional condo photography cost and how is Plotpane priced against a retoucher?+

A Manhattan or Miami retoucher typically charges $4-$8 per image, and a full condo set (unit plus amenity, 15-20 frames) runs $80-$150 in retouching alone on top of the $400-$900 shoot fee. Plotpane is a flat monthly plan — unlimited enhancement at 4K — which replaces the per-image line item entirely. Agents running 3-plus condo listings a month break even on the first set.

How do you take condo photography that survives Zillow and StreetEasy portal compression?+

Shoot at the highest resolution your camera supports, bracket for the window exposure (high-rise glass will always overexpose on a single frame), and export at 4K with a clean sRGB profile. Plotpane's export preset is tuned specifically for StreetEasy, Zillow, Redfin, and Trulia's re-encoding pipelines, so quartz veining, millwork shadow lines, and floor-to-ceiling skyline detail survive the portal downrez.

Why use professional photography for a condo listing versus the iPhone shots the owner already has?+

Condo buyers are comparing your listing against 40 other units in the same building or submarket, and the portal gallery is the entire first impression. iPhone HDR blows out window exposure on every high-rise frame, flattens amenity shots under indoor fluorescent light, and cannot recover the finish detail buyers are paying for. Professional capture plus Plotpane enhancement closes the gap to the $1,200-$2,000 top-of-market condo photography shoots Manhattan and Miami luxury agents are running.

Pricing

Premium where it counts.
4K on every plan.

Three plans. Every transformation unlocked. 4K output on every plan, watermark-free on every export, cancel anytime.

14-day refund

14-day no-questions refund. If your first render isn’t MLS-ready, we refund it.

Starter

For the solo agent shooting their own listings.

$39/mo billed yearly

100 renders per month · ~20 staged / 100 enhanced

Subscribe to Starter

100 renders per month
Every transformation · all seven tools
4K output on every export
Zero watermarks — clean image ships with every render
Invisible XMP disclosure metadata on staged output
Email support

Pro

For top-producing agents and real-estate photographers.

$79/mo billed yearly

300 renders per month · ~60 staged / 300 enhanced

Subscribe to Pro

300 renders per month
Batch mode — consistent grade across every shot of the listing
Bulk upload & batch processing
Priority rendering queue
Brand presets (studio logo on export)
Composed pipeline (stack tools in one render)
Priority support

Agency

For brokerages, teams, and photography networks.

$199/mo billed yearly

800 renders per month · ~160 staged / 800 enhanced

Subscribe to Agency

800 renders per month
Bulk upload — whole-shoot processing with shared preset lock
Up to 5 team seats
Roll-over renders (up to 3× monthly cap)
Shared brand presets across the team
White-label export (studio logo on delivery ZIP only — never on the image)
Dedicated account manager

Agencies only
Includes 5 seats · additional seats $25/mo

Feature	Starter$39/mo annual	Pro$79/mo annual	Agency$199/mo annual
Renders per month	100	300	800
Every transformation (staging, dusk, sky, declutter, enhance, renovate, sketch-to-render)
4K output (up to 3840×2160)
Watermark on export	None	None	None
Invisible XMP disclosure metadata
Bulk upload & batch processing	Up to 25 at a time	Up to 200 at a time	Up to 200 at a time
Batch consistency (shared preset, white balance, and grade across the listing)
Priority render queue
Composed pipeline (stack tools in one render)
Brand presets (studio logo on delivery ZIP)			Shared across team
Team seats	1	1	5 (additional $25/mo each)
Roll-over renders			Up to 3× monthly cap
White-label delivery ZIP
Support	Email	Priority email	Dedicated account manager
Cancel anytime, one click in Stripe portal
14-day refund on first render

Pricing FAQ

Billing, quotas, and refunds.

Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately and any remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period.
Starter and Pro renders refresh at the start of each billing cycle and do not roll over. Agency renders roll over up to 3× your monthly cap, so a slow month isn't wasted.
We never auto-charge for overages. Once you hit your cap, new renders pause until your next cycle. If you need more room immediately, upgrade your plan from the billing page and your new quota applies instantly with proration.
No free trial. Instead, every plan carries a 14-day no-questions refund — if your first render isn't MLS-ready, we refund it. We chose a hard paywall over a throttled free tier so every plan gets full 4K output and every tool from day one.
Yes — annual billing is roughly 20% off the monthly rate (Starter $39 vs $49, Pro $79 vs $99, Agency $199 vs $249, all per month). The toggle above swaps the two.

Enterprise

MLSs, franchises, portals, and photography networks.

Custom volume packages, SSO, SOC 2 readiness, private-cloud deployment, and dedicated CSMs. We partner with networks processing 50,000+ listings per month.

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Questions

The usual questions,
answered directly.

No. Midjourney and DALL-E invent scenes from text prompts — beautiful for art, disqualifying for a listing. Plotpane is a structure-preserving pipeline: your room geometry, windows, and floor plan stay exact. We stage, re-light, swap skies, declutter, and 4K-enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.
BoxBrownie and Styldod are human-edit services: you upload, a retoucher works overnight, you get a result in 24–48 hours at $2–$32 per image per treatment. Plotpane runs the full listing pipeline — staging, dusk, sky, clutter, enhancement — in one upload, in ~90 seconds, for a flat monthly subscription. Same 4K quality, no queue, no per-image fees.
Yes, when disclosed. NAR guidelines, California AB 723, and REBNY Rule 3.3 all allow virtually staged photos provided the listing discloses them. Every Plotpane export embeds invisible XMP disclosure metadata so the staging record travels with the file. You still handle the listing-remarks disclosure in your MLS portal — that's the part only you can do.
Not on staging or enhancement — our Fidelity Contract enforces structure-preserving masks that lock architecture, windows, and floor plan before any generation runs. Furniture is added to empty rooms; clutter is removed from furnished rooms; lighting and sky are re-graded. Renovation features (new flooring, wall colors) require you to explicitly mark the surface. We never reinvent what's already there.
Yes — one click in the Stripe billing portal from your dashboard. Billing stops immediately, remaining credits stay usable through the end of the billing period, and there's no cancellation fee.
Yes — any AI-generated or AI-modified image is considered an edit requiring disclosure under NAR's standards. That's why every Plotpane export writes invisible XMP disclosure metadata by default. The flag is machine-readable by MLS tooling and survives Lightroom round-trips. You still add the disclosure line to your listing remarks; we make sure the image itself is self-describing.
We don't train on your uploads — ever, with no opt-out toggle needed. Storage is per-account R2 (Cloudflare's object store), isolated from other tenants. When you cancel, your account's files are deleted on schedule. Transit is TLS 1.3, at-rest is AES-256. Full details in /legal/privacy.
Yes. Upload HEIC straight from your phone or desktop — we validate by magic bytes (not just file extension) and convert server-side. PNG, JPG, WebP, and HEIC are all first-class inputs. Output is 4K JPG by default, or request PNG if you need lossless.
Upgrade is instant and prorated: Stripe credits the unused portion of your current plan against the new one, and your new render quota applies immediately. Downgrades take effect at the next billing cycle so you keep your current quota until then. No credits are lost in either direction.
Yes. All plans include a commercial-use license for the agent, brokerage, or photography business on the account. Agency plan adds 5 team seats and a white-label delivery ZIP so you can hand enhanced photos to clients under your own studio brand. Full licensing terms in /legal/terms.

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