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.

Portland, OR

Sky replacement for Portland Oregon real estate photography

Sky replacement is the #1 editorial fix on every Portland Oregon real estate photography job, and it's not a coincidence. Portland runs about 155 measurable-rain days and another 80-100 cloudy days a year, which leaves roughly a quarter of the calendar with listing-photo-ready light. A Laurelhurst Craftsman bungalow, a King's Heights Tudor Revival, a Rummer mid-century modern in the West Hills — every one of them reads flat and dead on RMLS Northwest when the sky above it is paper-bag #d5d7d4 overcast. Plotpane replaces the blown-flat grey with one of four built-in skies in about two minutes, leaves moss-covered cedar-shake, Doug-fir needle silhouettes and bigleaf maple canopy clean at 2.4K, and writes an XMP enhancement tag into every export so the record lives in the file you download.

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Before

After

Why sky replacement is the default Portland Oregon edit

Portland's overcast isn't Seattle's, isn't Vancouver BC's, and is nothing like a generic cloudy-day stock sky from a Photoshop 2021 library. The marine layer settles over the Willamette Valley warmer and slightly greener than Puget Sound fog, often with Mount Hood silhouetted east-southeast on clearer mornings. Luminar Neo and Photoshop sky-swap defaults drop a Southern-California cobalt behind the house that reads instantly fake over a moss-roofed Alameda Craftsman or a St. Johns Queen Anne Victorian. Plotpane ships four built-in skies — Clear Blue, Soft Clouds, Golden Hour and Dramatic Storm — and swaps the sky region only: the Mount Hood you actually shot comes through intact, and one you didn't never appears.

Clear Blue or Soft Clouds, not Southern-California cobalt
Mount Hood stays exactly where you shot it — no invented scenery
About 2.4K on the long edge, a quality-92 JPEG RMLS Northwest accepts directly
Batch 50 photos on Pro, 150 on Agency, at about two minutes a frame — not 10-20 min in Photoshop

Portland architecture and PNW vegetation — held clean at 2.4K

Portland's architectural character depends on details that break every generic sky-replacement tool: moss growing across cedar-shake roofs and north-facing siding (a PNW feature, not a defect), mature Douglas fir and western red cedar with fine-needle silhouettes, dense bigleaf maple canopies, and sword-fern undergrowth. Plotpane holds these edges cleanly against the new sky. It handles Laurelhurst and Alameda Craftsman bungalows with deep eaves and tapered column porches, King's Heights and Irvington Tudor Revival half-timbering, Eastmoreland Cape Cod dormers, NW Portland / Nob Hill Queen Anne towers, St. Johns Victorian gable trim, and the flat rooflines and clerestory bands of Bob Rummer mid-century modern homes in the West Hills and Beaverton. Moss is explicitly preserved — it reads as authentic PNW provenance to any local buyer and removing it would both misrepresent condition and look fake.

Moss on cedar-shake roofs and north-facing siding left in place, never cleaned off
Douglas fir, western red cedar, western hemlock needle-edge accuracy
Bigleaf maple, dogwood and vine maple canopy silhouettes held clean at 2.4K
Craftsman eaves, Tudor half-timbering, Rummer clerestory lines held clean

RMLS Northwest, ORS 696 and Oregon advertising rules

RMLS Northwest (Regional Multiple Listing Service serving Portland, Vancouver WA and most of western Oregon) treats routine photographic finishing — sky replacement, HDR merge, exposure and lens correction — as standard editorial practice, not an altered material fact. Oregon Revised Statutes chapter 696 (Real Estate License Act) and the Oregon Real Estate Agency rules under OAR 863-015 apply the misrepresentation bar to material property facts: square footage, permits, boundaries, structural defects. Exterior sky enhancement sits firmly in the editorial-finishing category alongside Lightroom white balance and Photoshop HDR. Plotpane writes an XMP enhancement tag into the file you download, so Windermere Realty Trust, John L. Scott Oregon, Premiere Property Group, Coldwell Banker Bain and Cascade Sotheby's International Realty keep the audit trail in their own archive — RMLS and the portals re-encode on upload, so the copy that carries the record is the one you filed.

RMLS Northwest direct JPEG upload, no resizing round-trip
ORS 696 / OAR 863-015 material-fact bar does not cover sky
XMP enhancement tag written to every export for brokerage audit
Audit trail written into the JPEG you download, dated for your own archive

For this region

Local questions, answered

Does RMLS Northwest require disclosure of sky replacement?+

No. RMLS Northwest rules and Oregon advertising rules under OAR 863-015 apply the disclosure bar to material property facts (square footage, permits, condition), not to exterior sky enhancement. Sky replacement is treated as editorial finishing, the same category as HDR and Lightroom sky swaps. Plotpane still writes an XMP enhancement tag into every export you download, so Windermere Realty Trust, John L. Scott Oregon, Premiere Property Group, Coldwell Banker Bain and Cascade Sotheby's keep a clean dated record on file without defacing the listing photo.

Will it remove the moss on my Laurelhurst Craftsman's cedar-shake roof?+

No — that's the point. Moss on cedar-shake is a PNW provenance marker Laurelhurst, Alameda and West Hills buyers recognise as authentic. Sky Swap changes the sky region and leaves the roof exactly as shot, moss and all. Removing it would both misrepresent condition under ORS 696 and read fake to any local buyer.

Can it add Mount Hood to a West Hills or King's Heights listing?+

No. Sky Swap replaces the sky and nothing else, so a Mount Hood that wasn't in the frame never gets put there — adding it would misrepresent the geographic view anyway. What the swap does do is clear the grey off a mountain you did shoot: an east or east-southeast view at 24-35mm with a clear plane above the conifer line comes back with the peak intact. Rummer mid-century modern homes in the West Hills with east-facing clerestory bands are the classic case.

How does it handle Douglas fir and western red cedar edges?+

PNW conifer silhouettes are the hardest edge-detection problem in real estate sky replacement, and the mask holds them. Needle-level detail is preserved instead of being blurred into a halo — Doug fir, western red cedar, western hemlock and the dense bigleaf maple canopy common around Eastmoreland and Irvington all hold cleanly against the replaced sky at the 2.4K export size.

What architectural styles does the model handle well in Portland?+

Craftsman bungalow (Laurelhurst, Alameda, Irvington), Tudor Revival (King's Heights, Irvington), Cape Cod (Eastmoreland), Queen Anne Victorian (St. Johns, NW Portland / Nob Hill), and mid-century modern including Bob Rummer homes (West Hills, Beaverton). Deep Craftsman eaves, Tudor half-timbering, Queen Anne tower trim and Rummer flat rooflines with clerestory bands all stay clean through the sky swap.

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.