Is this just another AI image tool?

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 enhance your actual photo. No hallucinated architecture, no invented rooms.

How does it differ from BoxBrownie or Styldod?

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. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.

Will the MLS accept AI-staged photos?

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.

Won't the AI add things to my listing that aren't really there?

Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.

Can I cancel anytime?

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.

Do my renders count as 'edits' under NAR rules?

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.

Charlotte, NC

Real estate photography Charlotte NC editing, Canopy MLS-ready

Real estate photography Charlotte NC editing is a specific craft, not a generic enhancer. Queen City luxury lives in a Southern-transitional register — Myers Park Tudor-revival brick, Eastover French Academic stone, Dilworth craftsman bungalow, Cotswold post-war brick ranch, Ballantyne new-build stucco, SouthPark mid-century, and Uptown glass-tower pied-à-terre. Generic AI enhancers push every facade toward a California-modern tone that misrepresents the material — heritage red brick shifts to cartoon orange, slate patina flattens, boxwood reads Bahamas-green. Plotpane's Auto Enhance corrects the exposure and the colour cast and leaves the material where it was, exporting at about 2.4K, with the XMP disclosure metadata Canopy MLS listing brokers expect.

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After

Built for real estate photography Charlotte NC listings

Real estate photography Charlotte NC editing has to hold the specifics of each ZIP. 28207 Eastover and 28211 SouthPark / Cotswold sell on Tudor-revival and French Academic — warm heritage red brick with slate or copper roofs, boxwood hedges and magnolia canopy. 28209 Myers Park is the tightest luxury tier: 1920s Tudors above $2M where buyers know when a digital 'refresh' has been applied and walk. 28203 Dilworth is craftsman bungalow with original cedar trim; 28226 Ballantyne is Ballantyne Country Club new-build stucco; 28202 Uptown is Fourth Ward glass-tower high-rise. Plotpane's enhancement mode re-grades each material correctly: heritage red reads heritage red, slate holds its oxidized patina, Charleston-green shutters stay Charleston-green, and the Piedmont summer haze that flattens every August facade shoot lifts without over-saturating the canopy.

Lake Norman waterfront + luxury >$2M tier, handled separately

The luxury tier above $2M in Eastover and Myers Park and the Lake Norman waterfront belt (Mooresville, Cornelius, Denver NC, Davidson) carry different editing problems than the Charlotte core. Luxury listings shot for Dickens Mitchener, Premier Sotheby's, Cottingham Chalk, Ivester Jackson and Compass Charlotte custom books demand Tudor-revival paint chalking held pixel-identical and slate patina preserved — not a modernized wash. Lake Norman waterfront shot under humid Piedmont summer haze flattens facade contrast and turns Catawba River water flat-grey under overcast; dock detail disappears in the shadow under the boat lift. Auto Enhance opens the shadow under the lift, returns the water to realistic Piedmont-green (not Bahamas cyan), and recovers dock-board detail without altering the waterfront geometry that 21 NCAC 58A .0104 treats as material advertising fact.

Heritage red-brick and painted-cream facade material-correct re-grading
Slate, copper and standing-seam metal roof patina preserved
Piedmont summer haze lifted without over-saturating magnolia and Bradford pear canopy
Lake Norman dock, boat lift and seawall geometry held pixel-identical
Luxury >$2M Myers Park and Eastover Tudor-revival paint chalking preserved

Canopy MLS rules and 21 NCAC 58A .0104 advertising practice

Canopy MLS (operated by the Charlotte Regional Realtor Association, covering the Charlotte metro on both the NC and SC sides including Union, Mecklenburg, Iredell, Cabarrus, Gaston and York counties) ties listing-photo accuracy to the North Carolina Real Estate Commission's §21 NCAC 58A .0104 advertising rule — the disclosure bar is material misrepresentation of the property's features or condition. Routine photographic finishing (exposure, color, sky, haze lift, lens correction) is treated as editorial practice and does not require public-remarks disclosure. Virtual staging of empty rooms does require disclosure under the same rule. Plotpane writes XMP disclosure metadata into every export — operation, engine, render id and timestamp — so the JPEG you download carries a dated record of what was run. Brokerage asset libraries re-encode on ingest and usually drop it, which makes the XMP your own file copy rather than the disclosure a listing shows.

For this region

Local questions, answered

Does Canopy MLS require disclosure of real estate photography Charlotte NC editing?+

No for routine enhancement. Canopy MLS enforces the NC Real Estate Commission's 21 NCAC 58A .0104 advertising rule, which applies disclosure to material misrepresentation of the property's features or condition. Exposure, color correction, sky replacement, haze lifting and lens correction are editorial finishing. Virtual staging of empty rooms does require a public-remarks disclosure. Plotpane tags every export with XMP disclosure metadata — operation, engine, render id, timestamp — written into the JPEG you download, which keeps a dated record in your own files rather than replacing the public-remarks line.

Will it 'modernize' the paint on a 1920s Myers Park Tudor or an Eastover French Academic?+

No. Auto Enhance corrects exposure and color cast and leaves the facade itself alone, so original paint chalking, heritage brick tone and slate patina come back pixel-identical rather than re-painted in a generic California-modern palette. Above the $2M tier in Myers Park and Eastover, buyers recognize a digital 'refresh' at a glance and walk — that's why the luxury brokerages in the Queen City (Dickens Mitchener, Premier Sotheby's, Cottingham Chalk) reject generic AI enhancers.

Can it handle a Lake Norman waterfront shot with harsh midday shadow under the boat lift?+

Yes. The shadow-recovery algorithm opens mid-tone shadow on dock boards and waterline detail under the lift without introducing HDR halos or crushed black artifacts. Boat lift, seawall and dock-geometry are explicitly preserved because 21 NCAC 58A .0104 and Canopy MLS listing-accuracy practice treat those as material advertising facts.

What about SouthPark, Ballantyne and Uptown listings — different editing register?+

Yes. SouthPark mid-century and Cotswold brick ranch want warm-neutral color grade with original trim preserved; Ballantyne Country Club new-build stucco wants neutral facade color without the cartoon-warm cast generic enhancers apply; Uptown Fourth Ward high-rise pied-à-terre wants glass-tower reflection handled cleanly and Charlotte skyline held accurate. There is no per-neighborhood preset to pick, though: Auto Enhance corrects what is actually in the frame instead of pushing every facade toward one look, and Perspective Fix or Sky Swap are separate one-credit passes when a frame needs them.

Does it work for drone and aerial photography Charlotte NC listings?+

Yes, on the file — Plotpane flies nothing, but a drone plate is a JPEG like any other. Sky Swap and the haze lift in Auto Enhance apply to it identically — Piedmont summer haze that flattens DJI Mavic exteriors lifts cleanly, and the ~2.4K export clears the Canopy MLS image spec for aerial hero shots on luxury Myers Park and Lake Norman listings.

Pricing

One credit per image.
Every tool, every plan.

Three plans. Every tool unlocked on all of them. Every render unmarked, standard or high resolution, cancel anytime.

Every plan starts with 3 free renders. No card until you subscribe.

Starter

For the solo agent shooting their own listings.

$39/month

billed yearly

100 credits monthly

100 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Every tool, no tier gating
Standard output ~2.4K, or ~4.7K for a second credit
XMP disclosure metadata written into every export
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Cinematic clips from a single photo — 1 credit per second of video
Up to 10 photos per batch
Email support

Subscribe to Starter

For one agent, listing by listing.

Pro

For top-producing agents and real-estate photographers.

$79/month

billed yearly

220 credits monthly

220 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Up to 50 photos per batch, one tool across the shoot
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Everything in Starter
Priority support

Subscribe to Pro

The plan a working photographer buys.

Agency

For brokerages, teams, and photography networks.

$199/month

billed yearly

600 credits monthly

600 images per month — 1 credit each, whichever tool you use
No Plotpane mark on any render
Up to 150 photos per batch
Download a finished listing as a ZIP
Free vertical listing reel from your finished photos
Everything in Pro
Direct line to the founder, not a ticket queue

Subscribe to Agency

For a brokerage running whole shoots.

Feature	Starter$39/mo annual	Pro$79/mo annual	Agency$199/mo annual
Renders per month	100	220	600
Credits per image	1	1	1
All seven tools
Free renders on sign-up	3	3	3
Plotpane mark on the image	None	None	None
Standard output (~2.4K)
High resolution (~4.7K, second credit)
XMP disclosure written into every export
Optional visible “Virtually Staged” label
Photos per batch	10	50	150
Download a set as a ZIP
Refund a render that came back wrong
Support	Email	Priority email	Direct to the founder
Cancel anytime, one click

At volume

A 25-photo listing costs 25 credits.

That is the whole pricing model. No per-tool rates, no seat maths, nothing to negotiate. We are not SOC 2 certified and there is no SSO, private deployment or API — if you need those to buy, better you know now than after a call.

Starter

listings
a month

Pro

listings
a month

Agency

listings
a month

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 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. They also sell things we do not have at all — floor plans, renderings, item removal by a person who can ask you what you meant. Plotpane is one machine pass: you pick one of seven tools, and the image comes back in about two minutes for one credit, whichever tool you picked, on a flat monthly subscription. Stacking two treatments on one photo means running it twice.
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.
Every render is sent with a preserve list as well as an instruction. It names one operation and forbids the rest: do not touch windows, doors, walls, ceilings, floors, cabinetry or fixtures unless the instruction names them; do not remove or conceal a defect, stain or crack; do not change what is visible through glass, and never invent a view. Furniture is added to empty rooms; named objects are removed from furnished ones; sky and light are re-graded. If you do see something invented, that is a bug — report the render in the app and the credit comes back.
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.