Admit it. We’ve all taken those bad photos where the white-balance was off, the exposure was wrong, things were crooked, something was in the shot you didn’t see, or whatever. Bottom line – they just weren’t very good.
But too often those photos just end up being deleted. Or, worse yet, the actually end up on someone’s listing. Okay… sometimes a bad photo really does need to be trashed, but it should NEVER end up on your listing. That is, unless you just want to make all the other listings look better.
So, before you trash a bad photo, take a closer look at it. Would a little image manipulation, digital retouching, or whatever you want to call it, save that photo? Sometimes the only way to know for sure is to just start playing it.
I’m not going to get into any of the ‘how-to’ in this particular post, because the options of what all you can do are virtually endless. Besides, it all depends on what needs to be done. But tools like Elements, Light Room, Photoshop CS, etc, make high-end photo editing available to anyone. And it wasn’t that many years ago that you would easily spend several hundred dollars an hour at some post-production house to do the same things that you can do today on your laptop.
However, if you like to take your own photos, but don’t have the software, skill-set, interest, or time to do the post production editing, you may want to find someone to do it for you. It could be well worth it in the long run. And it might just help sell a house.
Here are just a couple of examples of some basic digital editing and photo correction.
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