How to Edit a Whole Listing Shoot in One Pass

Select the photos once, pick the edit once, and let it run. With real screenshots, the cap nobody mentions, and the one action that throws the job away.

The short answer

Select photos in the Media Library, press Edit on the toolbar that appears, and pick one edit to apply to all of them. Ten photos is the most one job takes. Cost is per photo, so six photos at 2K is twelve credits. The job keeps running while you move around the app, but closing the tab ends it.

When this is worth it

A batch applies ONE edit to every photo you selected. That makes it right for the corrections a whole shoot needs equally: brightening a set of interiors, putting the same sky across every exterior, running a consistent polish before the photos go to the MLS.

It is the wrong tool when each photo needs something different. A batch cannot brighten one room, declutter another and swap a sky on a third. For that, the photos go through one at a time, and the per-photo editor is faster than fighting a batch.

One thing it cannot do at all: a freeform instruction. Custom Edit is left out of the batch list on purpose, because its prompt describes one photo. You can see it in the second screenshot below, where the Custom filter reads zero.

Editing the shoot, step by step

Nothing here spends a credit until the last step, so you can walk up to the Apply button and change your mind.

Select the photos in the Media Library Each tile has a selection circle in its top-left corner. Click the circle on the first photo, and from then on clicking anywhere on a tile selects it rather than opening it. A dark toolbar appears along the bottom with the count on it. Selection itself is unlimited, so you can gather more than one job's worth and trim later.
Press Edit on the floating toolbar The toolbar's Edit button is the one that starts a batch. With a single photo selected it opens that photo in the normal editor instead, so a batch needs at least two. If more than ten are selected, the button says so rather than silently dropping the extras.
Pick one edit to apply to all of them Image Studio opens in batch mode with a banner naming the count. The category filters at the top carry counts, and Custom reads zero: a freeform instruction is per photo, so it is not offered here. Every card's button reads Apply to N photos rather than Apply, which is the clearest signal you are still in a batch.
Set the output options before you apply The batch page queues every photo and gives you the controls that apply to all of them: output resolution at 2K or 4K, and the MLS disclosure stamp. The Add photos tile shows how much room is left in the job. Resolution is the lever that moves the price, because 4K costs twice what 2K does per photo.
Check the credit total, then apply The Apply button quotes the whole job before it runs. Six photos at 2K reads twelve credits, which is two a photo. Nothing has been charged up to this point, and a photo that fails is not charged for.

The cap, and the one way to lose a job

Ten photos is the most a single job takes. Select more and the batch runs on the first ten, which is why the Add photos tile counts down the remaining slots. A twenty-photo shoot is two passes, not one.

Once it is running you can leave the page. The job lives above any single screen, so moving to Properties or Video Studio and coming back is safe, and progress follows you.

What it does not survive is the tab. Closing the tab or hard-refreshing ends the run, because the job is held in the page rather than on a server. Credits already spent on finished photos stay spent, and the photos that had not started are simply not done. If you need the shoot finished, leave the tab open.

Other ways to do this

Edit each photo on its own

When it fits: The shoot is mixed: one dark interior, one cluttered room, one flat sky, and no single correction fits them all.

Trade-off: You get the right edit on every frame and can judge each result as it lands. It is slower, and on a consistent set you will apply the same thing a dozen times.

Run the shoot through desktop software

When it fits: You already work in Lightroom or Capture One and have a preset that matches your style.

Trade-off: A preset syncs across hundreds of photos at once with no cap and no per-photo cost. It corrects exposure and colour rather than changing what is in the frame, so skies, clutter and staging still need something else.

Send the shoot to an editing service

When it fits: Volume is high enough that your own time is the expensive part, or the photos need judgement you would rather buy.

Trade-off: A human catches what an automatic pass misses on awkward frames. Turnaround is hours or a day rather than minutes, and the per-image price is higher than a credit.

Common questions

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A batch is one decision applied many times. The moment the photos need different decisions, it stops saving you anything.

Screenshots on this page were captured from the live Image Studio in November 2026. The ten-photo cap and the credit total are both visible in them rather than taken on trust.