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.

Seattle, WA

Real estate sky replacement for the Seattle market

Real estate sky replacement is the single highest-ROI edit a Seattle listing photographer can ship. Seattle logs 150+ measurable-rain days a year and overcast on roughly 226 — more grey-sky mornings than any other major US metro. A Ballard Craftsman bungalow, a Wallingford Seattle Box, a Queen Anne Victorian, a Capitol Hill contemporary, or a Mercer Island lakefront modernist listing shot under flat PNW ceiling looks dead on the NWMLS, Redfin and Zillow — regardless of the architecture. Plotpane swaps the blown-flat sky for a PNW-realistic cerulean in one pass, at about 2.4K, without touching a single cedar shingle, Doug-fir silhouette, window mullion, or lake-reflection highlight.

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Before

After

A real estate sky replacement workflow built for the Seattle metro

Real estate sky replacement, done right for Seattle, is not a Photoshop filter run on autopilot. The Photoshop and Lightroom sky-swap defaults ship with Southern California skies — a saturated cobalt that reads instantly fake over a Laurelhurst bungalow, a Windermere view home, or a Clyde Hill ranch on a flat November morning. The Pacific Northwest sky is specific: a softer cerulean with three-dimensional high-cirrus structure, a paler horizon haze off Puget Sound, and — when the composition genuinely supports it — Mount Rainier visible to the south-southeast or the Olympics visible to the west. Plotpane ships four built-in skies — Clear Blue, Soft Clouds, Golden Hour and Dramatic Storm — plus match-to-shadow logic that re-warms the facade to the new sun angle so the swap doesn't read as pasted-on. The output is a quality-92 JPEG at about 2.4K that you upload yourself, the same as any other photo: it goes into NWMLS Matrix and Paragon cleanly, syndicates to Redfin, Zillow and Realtor.com, and holds its detail through the re-compression each of those runs on upload.

Capitol Hill to Mercer Island: every Seattle architectural vocabulary covered

Sky replacement lives or dies on edge detection, and Seattle's housing stock punishes sloppy masking. Plotpane's masking holds across the full Seattle metro vocabulary: Craftsman bungalow heritage stock with deep overhanging eaves and exposed rafter tails (Ballard, Wallingford, Greenwood, Columbia City); Seattle Box four-squares with hipped roofs and full-width porches; Queen Anne Victorians with tower bays and scrollwork bargeboards; Capitol Hill mid-rise contemporaries with cantilevered glass and zinc cladding; Mercer Island lakefront modernism with floor-to-ceiling glazing and flat roof lines. Doug-fir, western red cedar and western hemlock silhouettes hold clean at the 2.4K export size, not mushed into halos. Wet cedar shake, wet asphalt driveways, and Lake Washington reflection highlights re-grade to match the new sun temperature automatically.

Craftsman bungalow rafter-tail edges held clean against new sky
Queen Anne Victorian tower bay and bargeboard scrollwork preserved
Capitol Hill contemporary zinc and glass reflections re-graded to new sun
Mercer Island modernist lakefront: glazing and water highlights matched
Doug-fir, cedar, hemlock needle clusters preserved cleanly at 2.4K — no halos
Bellevue, Medina, Clyde Hill, Laurelhurst, Windermere view angles supported

NWMLS rules, WA RCW 18.85, and what actually needs disclosing

The Washington legal frame is narrower than most photographers think. WA RCW 18.85 governs real estate broker advertising and requires that listing media not misrepresent material property facts — square footage, permits, condition, features. NWMLS Rule 104 (Listing Information and Photographs) mirrors this and treats routine photographic finishing — HDR, exposure correction, color balance, sky replacement — as standard editorial practice, not altered material facts. A blue sky swapped into a grey-sky frame is not a material misrepresentation of the property. Adding a body of water, erasing power lines, or hiding a cracked driveway would be. Plotpane still writes an XMP enhancement tag into the file you download — so Windermere, Coldwell Banker Bain, John L. Scott, Realogics Sotheby's and any brokerage with stricter in-house standards can keep the edit trail in their own archive, the MLS and the portals both re-encoding on upload.

For this region

Local questions, answered

Is real estate sky replacement allowed under NWMLS and Washington RCW 18.85?+

Yes. WA RCW 18.85 prohibits misrepresenting material property facts — condition, square footage, features. NWMLS Rule 104 classifies sky replacement in the same editorial bucket as HDR and white balance. Plotpane still writes an XMP enhancement tag into every export you download, for brokerages that keep an audit trail of their own.

How does this compare to Photoshop's built-in Sky Replacement for Seattle shoots?+

Photoshop's built-in sky replacement ships with Adobe-default sky libraries tuned for generic clear-blue conditions — they read fake over a Seattle frame because the light temperature, horizon haze and cloud structure don't match PNW reality. Plotpane's four built-in skies sit softer than that, and the relight step re-warms the facade to match the new sun, which Photoshop does not do automatically. Output is a quality-92 JPEG at about 2.4K in about two minutes, against 10-20 minutes of manual masking per frame in Photoshop.

Does it handle overcast input? That's 150+ days a year in Seattle.+

Overcast is actually the ideal input. A flat, texture-less ceiling gives the mask model a clean gradient to work against, so the swap carries no residue of the original sky. Seattle's 150+ rain days and 226 overcast days a year mean most exterior NWMLS shots are straightforward input for the swap — no manual masking, no sliders to tune.

Can Plotpane add Mount Rainier or the Olympics when they weren't in the original frame?+

No. Sky Swap replaces the sky region and composites nothing else in, so a mountain that wasn't in the frame never appears — which is the honest answer and the safe one: adding a peak that can't actually be seen from the property is a material misrepresentation under WA RCW 18.85, not a creative choice. A south-southeast look at 24-35mm that already has Rainier above the tree line keeps it through the swap, as does a west-facing frame with the Olympics across Puget Sound.

Does this cover Bellevue, Mercer Island, and the Eastside, or only Seattle proper?+

Full Seattle metro, Eastside included. The model handles Bellevue mid-century ranches, Medina and Clyde Hill estate frontages, Mercer Island lakefront modernism, Laurelhurst and Windermere view homes. Lake Washington reflection highlights are re-graded alongside the sky so the water matches the new sun temperature automatically.

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.