Showing off a listing with large (800×600) photos presented with a smooth, elegant Flash interface is an extremely effective. One of the easiest an most inexpensive ways of doing that is with a buildatour.com slide show. Out of hundreds of alternatives for presenting this kind…

What would a good real estate photography setup be if you were purchasing today? CNET currently rates the Nikon D80 and Canon EOS Rebel XT as the top DSLRs under $1,000. Both of these cameras are in the top 5 best selling DSLRs in the…

The real estate marketing photo above was done by Scott Hargis, a San Francisco area real estate photographer that does what looks to most like Architectural Digest level work but shoots entire homes for Realtors in 1.5 hours or less. Scott does this high quality,…

The slide show above (Click here or on the image above to view) is an example of the kind of tour I’m seeing more and more in upper-end marketing. This particular example is technically tour and a property site since it has it’s own URL….

Michael Arrington at TechCrunch reports that Picnik, the online photo-editing site has signed a deal with Flickr to allow Flickr users to do basic photo-editing. Picnik is amazingly fast at, sharpening, exposure adjustments, white-balance adjustments and other basic photo adjustments. It will access your photos…

In February of 2007 Adobe released Lightroom which has turned out to be a breakthrough in Photo management and editing for photographers. Before Lightroom the photo-editing software of choice was either Photoshop or it’s little brother Photoshop Elements. Photoshop has evolved over the years as…

These days photo manipulation is making the news all the time. Photo manipulation with Photoshop and other photo editors has become such an issue that Adobe and Cannon have teamed up to create a suite of tools that would allow a photo to be matched…

One of the most important factors in creating great property photos is post processing (photo-editing) the images after they come out of the camera. The image above is by Aaron Leitz who is a professional real estate and architectural photographer that works in the Seattle…

While browsing through the listings in our office earlier this year I noticed that out of 60 listings that our office had at the time only the listings my wife and I had have virtual tours. This was surprising. So I decided to do some…

The most important photo of a home is the front exterior. The reason is that time and time again the listing agent is required to choose a single photo that is either featured most prominently (as on web sites) or the only photo (as in…