The bin at the curb, the hose on the path, the neighbour's van. Four steps to describe the fix in plain words, with screenshots, and a clear line on what you must not edit.
Open Custom Edit, drop the photo in, and describe the fix the way you would say it out loud: remove the parked cars from the driveway. Pick the output resolution, choose one or two variations, and apply. Four steps, under a minute, two credits at 2K, the standard output. Removing a temporary distraction is fair. Adding a feature the property does not have is not, and the difference is the whole guide.
Most listing-photo problems have a preset: a flat room is Listing Ready, a grey sky is Sky, a cluttered room is Declutter, a furnished room is Remove Furniture. Those run on one tap because the instruction is already written.
What is left over is the one-off. A recycling bin the seller forgot to move. A garden hose coiled across the path. A neighbour's van parked across the frame. A seasonal wreath that dates the photo to last December. None of those has a preset, because none of them happens often enough to deserve one.
Custom Edit is where you describe that fix yourself. The product's own placeholder shows the shape of a good instruction: Remove the parked cars from the driveway. Plain, specific, one thing.
Custom Edit will do what you ask, which is exactly why the asking matters. On a listing photo, there are two different edits that feel identical in the moment and are not.
Removing something temporary is presentation. The bin, the hose, the van, the hose reel: none of them conveys with the property, and no buyer arrives expecting them. You are photographing the house rather than the Tuesday it was photographed on.
Adding or altering something permanent is misrepresentation. A pool the property does not have, string lights that are not installed, a fence that is not there, a crack edited out of a driveway. The buyer finds out at the first showing, and what they learn is not just that the photo was wrong.
The same applies to removal when the thing removed is a defect rather than a distraction. Taking out a bin is fine. Taking out the rust stain under it is not.
If the edit is for a seller conversation rather than the MLS set, say so on the image. The composer has an MLS disclosure toggle, and a visualization that is clearly labelled is a different artifact from a listing photo that is quietly wrong.
Four steps. The screenshots are the live interface.
Name the object and where it is. Remove the blue recycling bin at the left edge of the driveway beats remove the bin, because a photo often has more than one candidate.
One fix per edit. Two requests in one sentence tend to produce one result. Run the second as its own edit on the saved result, which costs the same and gives you a version history by accident.
Describe the object, not the feeling. Make the entrance look more welcoming gives the edit nothing to act on. Remove the folded cardboard boxes beside the front door does.
Say what should stay when it is ambiguous. Remove the car from the driveway, keeping the driveway and the basketball hoop unchanged is worth the extra clause on a cluttered frame.
When it fits: You are still at the property, or can get back before the listing goes live.
Trade-off: The honest baseline, and free. It needs you to notice the bin while you are standing next to it, which is exactly when it is easiest to miss.
When it fits: The distraction sits at an edge and the composition survives losing that strip.
Trade-off: Instant, free, and nothing is altered. You give up part of the frame, which on a wide establishing shot is usually the part that made it establishing.
When it fits: The object overlaps something complicated: glass, water, a reflection, or detailed brickwork.
Trade-off: A person makes the judgement calls in the hard corners. A few dollars per image and a few hours of turnaround, so it suits one hero shot rather than a full set.
Anything that changes what the buyer is being asked to pay for. Do not add a feature the property lacks, do not remove a defect, and do not alter anything permanent: structures, finishes, boundaries, or condition. Removing a temporary object that happened to be in frame on the day is a different act from editing the property itself.
Custom Edit is a general photo tool, and adding a pool is a legitimate thing to visualize for a seller deciding whether to build one. It is not a legitimate thing to publish as a photograph of the property as it stands today. The use decides it, not the tool.
Two credits at 2K, which is the standard output, and four at 4K. Variations multiply that, so two variations at 2K is four credits. The cost appears on the Apply Edit button before you commit, and a failed edit is never charged.
Because a removal over a busy background is a judgement call, and two attempts give you one to pick. Over a plain surface, such as a hose on a clean path, one is almost always enough and the second is a wasted credit.
No. Every edit saves as a new entry in your library with the original untouched, so you can compare them or go back to the unedited photo at any point.
Removing the bin photographs the house instead of the Tuesday. Removing the stain under it photographs a different house.
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