Time Off Editing today announced updates to its Real Estate Photo Editing service focused on standardizing image preparation for online listings and streamlining workflows for photographers, brokerages and marketing teams. The announcement outlines practical changes to editing pipelines, quality-control processes and file delivery options intended to help real estate professionals present accurate, consistent and platform-ready imagery across listing portals, social channels and print materials.
The updated service model centers on three practical aims: consistent visual presentation, efficient turnaround, and technical compliance with common listing and marketing platforms. To achieve consistent presentation, Time Off Editing has refined its approach to base edits — including exposure and white balance correction, perspective and lens distortion correction, and targeted adjustments to shadows and highlights — so that images from different shoots and different photographers render predictably when combined in a single listing gallery. Those refinements are combined with standardized export settings for resolution, aspect ratio and compression that align with current marketplace requirements for listing portals and social media.
On the technical side, the service enhancements place greater emphasis on workflow compatibility. Editors now follow a formalized checklist for file intake that reduces the need for back-and-forth with submitting photographers. Accepted input formats and transfer options have been clarified to streamline ingestion: common camera RAW formats are supported, and delivery can be tailored to standard JPEG sizing for MLS, high-resolution TIFFs for print, or web-optimized versions for property websites and social advertising. Batch processing tools are used where appropriate to maintain consistency across multi-unit or multi-room shoots, while selective manual retouching is applied to areas that require human judgment, such as removing temporary objects, correcting reflections, or restoring accurate color in fixtures and finishes.
Quality control has been emphasized in the updated service. Each work order goes through a two-stage review: an initial editorial pass to apply technical corrections and a secondary quality assurance check to verify alignment with the client’s chosen presets and export requirements. A revision protocol is available to accommodate site-specific needs — for example, alternate sky options, additional cropping for platform thumbnails, or localized color adjustments — with clearly defined limits and revision windows documented at intake. This structure is intended to reduce the time agents and listing teams spend coordinating image output and allow them to focus on listing presentation and marketing strategy.
Time Off Editing has also formalized recommendations for image sequencing and gallery composition that reflect how prospective buyers commonly consume listing content online. The guidance covers cover image selection, room ordering, and consistency in horizon alignment and vertical lines so that multi-image galleries appear coherent on desktop and mobile. While these recommendations are advisory rather than prescriptive, they are intended to help teams make pragmatic choices that support better first impressions and clearer navigation for viewers.
Operationally, the service updates include clearer descriptions of turnaround options and how to prioritize urgent requests. Delivery windows are differentiated by project size and chosen service level, and the intake process now captures platform targets at the outset to ensure final files meet the technical constraints of those targets. Where applicable, the workflow accepts bulk orders for multi-property projects and supports naming conventions and metadata options that facilitate downstream asset management in MLS systems and marketing repositories.
A customer-facing change in this announcement is improved transparency around editing choices. Each delivered gallery can include an edit log summarizing the principal adjustments applied to images — for example, HDR blending, perspective correction, or object removal — so listing teams can see what was changed and where. The intent of the edit log is informational: to provide an accurate record for compliance, creative continuity between shoots, and internal review when teams are comparing output across vendors or time.
Commenting on the update, a company representative said, “Real estate imagery is a functional tool for listing accuracy and for communicating the spatial and material qualities of a property. Our goal with these changes is to make the preparation of those images more predictable and easier to fit into established listing and marketing workflows.” The representative added that the focus is on practical outcomes — consistent exposure, correct geometry, and reliable export formats — rather than on stylistic interpretation.
The announcement also notes considerations for ethical and regulatory practice. Image alterations that materially misrepresent property features are not part of the standard workflow. Where stylistic edits could affect a buyer’s perception of fixed property attributes, the edit log provides transparency and listing teams are advised to comply with applicable disclosure practices and platform rules. The company recommends that agents and brokers review final imagery with legal or compliance teams when listings include edits that alter perceived structural or permanent elements.
Time Off Editing’s updated service model aims to be adaptable to different market segments and listing strategies. For brokerages and photographers focused on high-volume listings, the emphasis is on reliable batch processing and consistent export parameters. For luxury or bespoke listings, manual retouching and custom sequencing can be specified at intake so the finished presentation reflects the property’s positioning. In all cases, the approach emphasizes predictable, documented processes designed to reduce uncertainty in the handoff from shoot to live listing.
The company has published intake guidelines and a sample checklist for submitting shoots to help photographers and marketing teams prepare files in ways that reduce preparation time and preserve image fidelity. Those materials explain preferred file naming conventions, recommended camera settings for interior and exterior work, and best practices for capturing bracketed exposures when HDR blending is requested. The guidelines are offered as operational tools to reduce errors at ingestion and to help teams achieve consistent results with minimal iteration.
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