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.

Austin, TX

Austin Real Estate Photographer for West Lake Hills and Tarrytown listings

Austin Real Estate Photographer turns a flat listing into marketing-grade exports at about 2.4K for the $3M+ West Austin luxury tier. West Lake Hills (78746), Rollingwood, Tarrytown (78703), Pemberton Heights, Barton Creek, Lost Creek, Rob Roy and Davenport Ranch trade at a different register than the rest of the ACTRIS / Unlock MLS footprint — limestone-and-glass Hill Country modernists cantilevered over three-acre Eanes ISD lots, transitional-traditional new-builds on Westlake Drive, and Lake Austin waterfront above Pennybacker Bridge that closes $4-12M. Plotpane enhances each at about 2.4K in the editorial register Kuper Sotheby's, Moreland Properties, Compass Austin, Douglas Elliman Austin and Keller Williams Luxury use — holding every live-oak canopy, limestone course, standing-seam ridgeline and Colorado River view line exactly where you shot it.

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Built for the West Austin luxury tier — not a generic Austin filter

Austin Real Estate Photographer is a specific craft at the $3M+ tier, not a downtown-condo filter rebadged. Austin's luxury core sits west of MoPac inside the Eanes ISD attendance boundary — West Lake Hills (78746), Rollingwood, Tarrytown (78703), Pemberton Heights, Barton Creek, Lost Creek, Rob Roy and Davenport Ranch — plus the Lake Austin waterfront corridor from Commons Ford through Pennybacker Bridge. The inventory splits into three registers: glass-and-limestone Hill Country modernist cantilevered over the grade (Westlake Drive, Upper Commons Ford, Rob Roy ridge), transitional-traditional with Texas limestone and standing-seam metal roofs (Rollingwood, Lost Creek), and 1920s-40s Pemberton Heights Tudor-revival and Colonial Revival on deep pecan-shaded lots. Generic AI enhancement treats these like a Mueller bungalow or an East Side new-build, over-warms the limestone toward Tuscany-yellow, pushes live-oak toward neon green, and clips the cedar-elm canopy. Plotpane's Auto Enhance handles each correctly — Lueders and Cordova Cream limestone hold true warm-neutral, standing-seam metal stays bronze without going orange, and live-oak / cedar-elm read Hill Country summer-green.

West Lake Hills (78746), Rollingwood: limestone-and-glass Hill Country modernists, cantilever hillside homes
Tarrytown (78703), Pemberton Heights: 1920s-40s Tudor-revival and Colonial Revival on pecan-canopied lots
Barton Creek, Lost Creek, Rob Roy, Davenport Ranch: transitional-traditional on Eanes ISD acreage with course-cut limestone
Lake Austin waterfront above Pennybacker Bridge: boat-dock duplexes and Hill Country view cantilevers trading $4-12M

Hill Country view preservation — the view is the asset

West Lake Hills, Rollingwood and Lake Austin waterfront listings sell on view line — Pennybacker Bridge and Lake Austin from an Upper Commons Ford cantilever, the Hill Country rolling west at blue hour from a Westlake Drive modernist, or the Downtown Austin skyline across the lake from a Rollingwood ridge. Plotpane's Auto Enhance leaves every view plane, Hill Country ridgeline, Colorado River bend, Pennybacker Bridge arch and Downtown skyline silhouette exactly as shot. Exposure and color are corrected; view geometry is not touched, because the view is the asset the listing is selling. The Oracle / Tesla / Meta / Indeed tech-boom buyer flow that now drives the $3M+ tier is sophisticated — these are relocation buyers from the Bay Area, Seattle and NYC who read listing photos closely and compare to comps on JamesEdition, Sotheby's and Douglas Elliman in minutes.

Lueders and Cordova Cream Texas limestone held at material-correct warm-neutral
Live-oak and cedar-elm canopy rendered Hill Country summer-green without neon cast
Lake Austin water surface reflective but not oversaturated cyan
Pennybacker Bridge, Colorado River bend and Downtown Austin skyline silhouettes left untouched

Unlock MLS (ABoR) rules and TREC §535.155 / §531.18 practice

The Austin Board of REALTORS rebranded ACTRIS as Unlock MLS in 2024, but the compliance spine is unchanged: virtually staged photos must be identified in the public remarks or caption; routine photographic finishing (exposure, color, sky, lens correction) is treated as editorial practice and not a disclosure trigger. TREC §535.155 applies the advertising-misrepresentation bar to material property facts, and §531.18 requires advertising be accurate and not misleading regarding authorization or property condition. Plotpane ships clean JPEG exports at about 2.4K with an XMP enhancement-disclosure tag written into the file you download — your own dated record of the edit rather than something that rides along, because Unlock MLS and the brokerage systems behind Kuper Sotheby's International Realty, Moreland Properties, Compass Austin, Douglas Elliman Austin (opened 2022), Keller Williams Luxury Austin and Engel & Völkers Austin all re-encode on upload and drop the tag. The caption in public remarks is what carries a staging disclosure at the West Lake Hills, Rob Roy and Barton Creek luxury comp level. The same file passes without retreatment for the Eanes ISD luxury broker brochures, JamesEdition listings and Sotheby's / Douglas Elliman international roadshows.

For this region

Local questions, answered

Is this different from the general Austin virtual-staging page?+

Yes. The general Austin page is calibrated for UT-area, Mueller and East Austin bungalows plus downtown condos. This one is tuned for the West Austin $3M+ luxury tier — West Lake Hills (78746), Rollingwood, Tarrytown (78703), Pemberton Heights, Barton Creek, Lost Creek, Rob Roy and Davenport Ranch — inside the Eanes ISD attendance boundary, where property types, limestone palette, live-oak canopy and Unlock MLS luxury-comparable expectations diverge from the broader market. The workflow is the same either way — upload the file (JPEG, PNG, WebP or HEIC), pick one of the seven tools, export at about 2.4K. About two minutes, one credit.

Can it handle a West Lake Hills cantilevered glass house without overblowing the Hill Country view?+

Yes. Auto Enhance leaves the Hill Country ridgeline, Lake Austin surface, Pennybacker Bridge arch and any visible Downtown Austin skyline exactly as shot, and works only the exposure and color. Generic enhancers blow the view plane to recover shadow on the facade — Plotpane balances exposure by zone so both a cantilevered Upper Commons Ford facade and its 180° view read correctly in one frame.

Does it preserve Texas limestone color correctly across Lueders, Cordova Cream and Leuders Gray?+

Yes. Texas limestone has a specific warm-neutral character that differs by quarry — Lueders leans slightly cooler, Cordova Cream sits warm-neutral, Leuders Gray reads more overcast. Auto Enhance holds each authentic quarry tone through the exposure lift, instead of pushing all three toward a uniform cream or warming them to a Tuscany-yellow that reads wrong on a Westlake Drive modernist or a Rob Roy transitional.

Is Plotpane Unlock MLS (Austin Board of REALTORS) and TREC-compliant for the Eanes ISD luxury tier?+

Yes. Auto Enhance and Perspective Fix stay non-generative on structural elements — facade, roofline, live-oak trunks, pool geometry, Hill Country horizon — only light, color, noise and perspective are corrected. Virtual staging is disclosed in the public-remarks caption, with the XMP tag in your download as the dated record standing behind it. This aligns with Unlock MLS / ABoR rules, TREC §535.155 advertising-misrepresentation standard and §531.18 advertising-accuracy requirements for Kuper Sotheby's, Moreland Properties, Compass Austin, Douglas Elliman Austin and Keller Williams Luxury listings.

Does it work for Lake Austin waterfront and boat-dock duplex photography?+

Yes. Lake Austin waterfront above Pennybacker Bridge photographs against specific constraints — highly reflective water surface, cedar-elm shade on the dock, and cantilevered decks that meter wildly against the bright water. Plotpane recovers dock shadow detail, holds Lake Austin water at true tone without oversaturating cyan, leaves boat-lift geometry exactly as shot, and keeps the Hill Country far shore crisp. The same file ships to Unlock MLS, JamesEdition and the Sotheby's / Douglas Elliman Austin broker brochures.

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.