I’ve been doing Real Estate photography for over 4 years now. I have learned a lot from these forums, but nothing more helpful than the advice to stop spending hours on HDR blending with Photoshop and instead hire editors to do it for me. That advice has saved me thousands of hours of work. I just fired my third editing company. They all start out good, but eventually more and more issues come up, delaying delivery of jobs, and then typically delivery times get later and later. Nothing more frustrating than waiting for jobs from yesterday when I need to get out the door for today’s jobs. I recently discovered AutoHDR.com - which is AI driven HDR blending. They offer a free one-week trial, so I thought “it can’t hurt!”. So I tried it out, but continued with my regular editor so I could compare the work. I have to tell you I stopped using my editors and signed on with AutoHDR before the week was up.
Amazing window pulls, great colour balance, auto straightening, auto blue sky, auto camera removal from mirrors and the price is just 53 cents per image (I was paying 50 cents).
And here is the best part. . . the jobs are processed in under an hour – yes ONE HOUR! A complete game-changer for me. I’m a one guy shop, so I feel like I’ve died and gone to heaven.
Here’s a couple of property sites if you’d like to see the work - and I am open to commentary - I am fairly new at this still. But take the free trial and see for yourself https://www.autohdr.com/
And yes, if you do sign up, they give me a finders fee if you use my code - and you’ll get 25% off. Here’s my code. . . Tom_3226
For interiors I use 5-stop bracketed. Exteriors and Aerials I use 3-stop. The system is able to recognize the difference. Yes they take credit cards. It’s actually a subscription - the level I bought includes 500 images/month for $265. Unused credit roll over. Additional credits are at the same price 53 cents. And you can cancel anytime.
I have been using Fotello (met them at the PMRE conference last November). Their results are incredible! This company is forward thinking and super affordable. Here is a promo code FOTELLO-UOCIP
We use 3 stop brackets and they can also process single shot (drone), check it out!!
Wow! I am brand new to this platform, and therefore forum, and completely blown away by what iGUIDE can accomplish…thank you both so much for sharing what you created! I knew this was a great product, but, am I understanding this correctly…both of these presentations (Tom’s and Dan’s) were completely designed within this iGUIDE program(?). If so, were these “Standard” or “Premium” productions?
Apologies for this type of request within the forum, just attempting to better understand what I have purchased and its capabilities.
Thanks for the info on the photo processing as well!
iGUIDE only produces the 3D Tour and Floor Plans. Photos are shot with a Canon 6d MK II and Canon 14mm-40mm f4 wide angle lens. I wrap it all together into a property website through HD Photo
Im currently looking into Fotello, they’re much butter than AutoHDR in my opinion. These results are amazing, what settings on Fotello did you use? Did you know you can replace tv screens too?
I just started using Fotello… well testing it out. I still have an in house editing team.
I actually made a couple of videos reviewing them. I included an affiliate code of someone who told me about them. If you sign up with the affiliate code I believe you get 20 free listings. they don’t charge per photo, its per listing. so far i’ve done about 8 houses… great results for the most part. the best part is if AI messes up you can flag the image and a human will edit it. that happened to me twice.