Sky swaps for overcast shots. Virtual staging for empty rooms. Object cleanup for the everyday distractions. Built into Avenue 510 and ready every time your photos come back from the shoot.
Image Studio is the photo editing suite built into Avenue 510. Sky swaps, virtual staging, lighting, cleanup, advanced edits, and upscaling, all in one place, all working from the photos you already have. No freelancer round-trips. No software to learn. Built specifically for the photos a real estate agent actually shoots.
Every listing photo has a ceiling. The sky is overcast on shoot day. The room is empty because the seller already moved out. The garage door is half-open. The neighbor's trash bin is in frame. The list goes on, and every item on it costs an agent something. Time, money, or a marketing concession.
Until now, agents had two options. Pay a Photoshop freelancer forty to sixty dollars per image and wait two days. Or skip the polish entirely and post the photo as it came out of the camera, knowing the listing presented worse than it should have. Image Studio is the third option.
Sky replacements include Blue Sky, Partly Cloudy, Sunrise, Golden Hour, Sunset, Twilight, and Painted Sky. Virtual staging covers Modern, Scandinavian, Luxury, Farmhouse, Mid-Century, and Transitional furniture styles, and a universal Lights Off and Lights On control sets the mood on any edit. The Advanced option takes a plain-text instruction, just describe what to change or erase. Upscaling brings soft or low-resolution sources up to MLS-ready quality.
And then there is the advanced category. The edits that Photoshop freelancers used to charge premium rates for. Fireplace ignite (turn on a fireplace that was not lit during the shoot). TV blackout (replace a powered-on TV with a clean black screen). Exterior lighting (turn on porch and landscape lights for an evening shot). Window view replacement. Pool water enhancement. Driveway cleanup. The list grows every month.
Virtual staging and structural edits carry MLS disclosure obligations in most markets. Image Studio labels these edit types in the output metadata so you can comply with your local rules without having to remember which photos were touched. Cleanup edits that do not change material facts (a trash bin removed, a power line erased) do not carry the same obligations and are flagged accordingly.
Image Studio is also available as an optional enhancement step inside the Video Tour flow. Polish the source photo first. Swap the sky, stage the empty room, clean up the driveway. The downstream video inherits the cleaner input. Better photos in. Better video out. Same workspace, same workflow.
Image Studio reserves capacity for every job at start and only counts the edit when the model delivers a usable result. If the model fails or produces something we cannot deliver, the reservation is released automatically. You are never charged for a failed edit. Try a sky swap, try a virtual staging set, regenerate as many times as you need until the photo presents the way you want.
The agents we rolled this out to in beta settled into the same pattern. The morning a listing's photos come back from the photographer, they run a batch through Image Studio. Sky swaps on the exteriors that came back overcast. Virtual staging on the empty rooms. Object cleanup on anything with a stray trash bin or open garage door. Upscaling for MLS and print.
By the time the listing is on MLS that afternoon, every photo presents at the level the agent wanted from the start. The video tour they generate later that day uses the polished photos as source. The MLS Video Tour inherits the better input.
Photo polish stopped being an optional, expensive, last-minute scramble and started being a default step in the listing flow. That is the goal.
Does Image Studio meet MLS photo standards? Yes. The standard output is sized for MLS, social, and print without compromise. Most edits do not change material facts and carry no disclosure obligation. The ones that do (virtual staging, structural changes) are labeled automatically in the output metadata.
Can I use Image Studio on photos I did not shoot? Yes. Any listing photo you have access to, from your photographer or the seller, can run through Image Studio. The model is trained on real estate photography, not generic photo editing.
How long does an edit take? Most edits return in under a minute. Heavier work like 4K upscaling takes a little longer. Either way, faster than waiting two days for a Photoshop freelancer.
What if I am not happy with the result? Regenerate. Image Studio only counts an edit when the model delivers a usable result, so you are never billed for an attempt that did not work.
Can I edit photos before generating a Video Tour? Yes. Image Studio is integrated into the Video Tour flow as an optional enhancement step. Polish your source photos first, then animate them. Better photos in means better video out.
Most agents either skip the photo polish entirely or pay forty dollars per image for a one-off Photoshop touch-up. Neither is a system. Image Studio is.