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Now you see it - Now you don't! Graphic design liberties help sell!

By Kathy Smiley

Real Estate Agent with Rodeo Realty ~ Fine Estates Westlake Village DRE #01744774

March 29, 2014 01:49 AM

What to do about cars in the driveway or power lines in the photo? Your handy-dandy graphic designer (or you if you are talented!) can virtally erase cars, lines, light poles, etc from your photo before you spend the big bucks on flyers and postcards!

Lake Pleasant with car Lake Pleasant no car

The owner of this home collected old sports cars. Some of them did not run, like the one in the driveway! He had it towed to his new home after we closed escrow, but in the meantime we worked some magic with "erasing" it for the flyers and postcards!

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Andrew Mooers | 207.532.6573

MOOERS REALTY - Houlton, ME

Northern Maine Real Estate-Aroostook County Broker

We remove ugly lines when the perfect angle has something that messes it up. But also shooting down or up, the angle makes all the difference in your wide lens with the filters for the eye candy. The sports car unwrapped could be nice staging too! Leave it in if this is hiding under the tarp cover.

exotic car photo

Mar 29, 2014 01:59 AM

TeamCHI - Complete Home Inspections, Inc.

Complete Home Inspections, Inc. - Brentwood, TN

Home Inspectons - Nashville, TN area - 615.661.029

I use Photoshop's 'content aware' feature to remove unwanted content. I even removed a stubborn dog that did not want to relinquish its sofa.

Mar 29, 2014 06:41 AM

Kathy Smiley

Rodeo Realty ~ Fine Estates Westlake Village - Newbury Park, CA

"Real Estate results that make YOU smile!"

Andrew, Pamela and Michael - thanks for commenting! I'm not that handy with graphics or programs, so I am extremely fortunate that our Fine Properties office has a full time graphics person. Otherwise, I'd spend all my time "doing" and have no time for real estate! And Andrew - if the car was a groovey one like the one in your photo, I would have left it in, too. But... it was a jalopy!

Mar 29, 2014 09:12 AM

Michael Jacobs

Pasadena, CA

Pasadena And Southern California 818.516.4393

Hi Kathy - first impressions count and cars in the driveway(especially those in less-than pristine condition) are typically not that attractive to prospective buyers. Thanks for the tip.

Mar 29, 2014 05:39 PM

Robert Vegas Bob Swetz

Las Vegas, NV

Hello Kathy ... Interesting post and "Andrew" is such a Hoot!

Mar 30, 2014 06:22 AM

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