Color Experts BD Real Estate Photo Editing Review

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If you are considering using Color Experts BD real estate photo editing services – then read this review first!

In this review, we take a detailed look at the real estate photo editing services provided by Color Experts BD.

Our review will include an overview of their ordering process, pricing plans, image quality with examples, making revisions, customer support, as well as their other services.

Overall Rating Table

Here’s an overall comparison of Color Experts BD and PhotoUp’s real estate photo editing services:

Overall Rating
	2.8	4.8
Provider	Color Experts BD	PhotoUp
Current Ranking	11th of 25	1st of 25
Best For	n/a	overall
Cost per Image	starting at $14.99 per image	$1.00-$1.50 per image
Turnaround Time	24 hours	12-24 hours
Quality
Overall Quality	average	excellent
Consistency	none	all notes followed
Pricing
Cost of Single Shot/HDR	starting at $14.99 per image	$1.00-$1.50 per image
Rush Delivery	no	yes, 12 hours rush= 50% extra
Cost per Revision	free revisions	free revisions
Volume Discount	for returning customers	varies
Ordering
Order Form Interface	good & easy to learn	good & easy to learn
Turnaround Time	24 hours	12-24 hours
Weekend Service	yes	yes
Upload Speed	slow or buggy	fast & smooth
Payment Accepted	debit/credit, PayPal	debit/credit, ACH
Services
Photo Editing	yes	yes
Video Editing	yes	yes
Virtual Staging	no	yes
Floor Plans	no	yes
Virtual Assistants	no	yes
Systems and Extras
White labeled sub-Photographer Accounts	no	yes
Photo Delivery	no	yes
Property Websites	no	yes
Home Flyers	no	yes
Photo Backup	no	yes
Online Scheduling	no	yes
Virtual Tours	no	yes
Support
Support FAQ	yes	yes
Email	yes	yes
Chat	yes	yes
USA Phone	yes	yes
Response Time	5 minutes	5 min
Website	colorexpertsbd.com	photoup.net
Other Services	photo editing video editing	photo editing virtual staging video editing single property websites house portraits virtual assistants custom websites virtual tours

All right, now with our side-by-side comparison done, let’s take a detailed look at Color Experts’ real estate photo editing services. 

Color Experts BD Overview

Color Experts is a global photo editing service provider headquartered in Leesburg, Virginia, and with large photo editing teams in Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Sharjah, UAE. The company has been in business since 2004.   

According to their website, they work mostly with product photography and portraits.

Their services include:

• Photo background removal
• Image manipulation
• 3D modeling
• Video editing
• And advertisement design

OK, now let’s dive into our review of Color Experts’ real estate photo editing.

Pricing

First, we’ll examine Color Experts’ pricing for real estate photo editing. Unfortunately, determining the pricing for Color Expert’s services isn’t easy:

• The price list is extremely varied and includes an assortment of photography types and industries
• They do have prices for portraits, eCommerce product photos, photo restoration, and many other photography areas
• Real estate photo editing services, however, are not part of this initial menu, so to locate those prices, you need to dig around a bit on the site

Unfortunately, even when you find the real estate photo editing price list, it’s still not clear what the exact prices are since they don’t describe their services that well. 

Ordering From Color Experts

Now let’s talk about the real estate photo editing ordering experience.

1. Placing an Order

Placing a photo editing order with Color Experts was straightforward. They don’t require an account, you simply place your order.  However:

• Their website is a bit bland and doesn’t offer pertinent information on the homepage
• For example, there is no mention of real estate photo editing on the homepage
• The site is also rather generic and talks mostly about image processing

As mentioned, real estate photo editing is not a large part of Color Experts BD’s work. Rather, they specialize mostly in product photography for eCommerce sites. 

With that said, if you want to place an order, you click on the “upload files” button. 

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2. Uploading Images

Color Experts BD offers two ways to upload photos for editing. The first is a service called “Hightail” and the second is their “FTP” server. 

They recommend Hightail if your file size is less than 500GB. I had 24 HDR images to upload — less than 500GB in size — so I selected Hightail.

The uploading service was initially easy enough to use, however: 

• After 9 or so minutes of uploading, I received an error message. So, I made sure I didn’t make a mistake somewhere and uploaded the photos all over again
• My second attempt also failed around 11 minutes into uploading

These sorts of errors are extremely frustrating and time consuming.

The upload instructions also said you could try zipping the photo files and uploading them that way. So I zipped them and tried again. 

Unfortunately, the third time was not a charm, and I received the same error message.

I had no other choice except to use their FTP server to upload. To use this option, you first need to email them and ask for user credentials. And that’s what I did.

About an hour later, I received the credentials and uploaded my files. Thankfully, the FTP server was relatively fast and easy to use.

In total, I uploaded 24 HDR images to be blended into 8 photos that would then require some editing. 

These were my additional editing instructions:

• Sky replacement on all exterior shots 
• Window masking on all interior photos
• Remove the cars from all exterior aerial shots
• And a small towel removed from a bathroom photo

3. Pricing Surprises

When you go to Color Experts BD’s photo editing pricing menu, you are given a large assortment of services and their costs. 

However, none of the services were what I needed for my listing photos.

After searching around further, I finally found a real estate photo editing section. Again, the price and service list was not like other service companies I’ve used before. 

Also, the prices seemed strangely high — such as $14.99 for green grass on an exterior photo. 

Unable to tell how much my order was going to cost, I figured the best way forward was to use the message feature on the upload window to explain what editing I needed and inquire about the cost.

After submitting the message:

• I waited nearly an hour, and still no response
• So, I tried emailing them instead and repeated my editing instructions as well as inquiring about pricing

About 45 minutes later I received the email response. My order total was:

• $10.45 per photo for standard edits
• $3.00 per photo for additional services such as sky replacement
• And a 3% business surcharge — with no explanation

After adding all charges, I realized that my 8 photos and edits were going to be around $110 for simple HDR editing. When you compare that cost to 10 credits or $14 for the same number of HDR images with PhotoUp, you see that it’s a huge difference.

At this point, I started rethinking my order and choice of Color Experts. 

But before I pulled the plug on my order, I looked to see if there were any free trials or special offers for first orders.

And sure enough, there were.

4. A Free Trial

Many real estate photo editing service companies allow real estate sales professionals to sample their work by offering free or discounted services on the first order. 

Color Experts BD also offers a free trial for photo editing, so I decided to look into it. 

Unfortunately, their free trial is for basic photo editing of 2 images only. While 2 images are not much of a free trial, I decided to at least see the quality of their editing. 

5. Turnaround Time

In their FAQs section, Color Experts BD does not commit to a specific turnaround time for photo editing.  Production time is determined by the level and complexity of the requested edits.

I received my 2 basic edited trial photos back within 24 hours. So, having explained the ordering headaches, let’s look at the results. 

Photo Editing Examples

For my two free images, I selected one external and one interior photo. And the quality of the editing work was average. 

Example 1. HDR Blending of Exterior Image

I found the glare and exposure level on the exterior photo to be somewhat off, washing out the color of the house.

The vibrancy was also turned up a bit too high for my liking and they also washed out the color of the house, making it look white instead of the beige color that it actually was.

That said, I did like the enhancement to the grass and the sky replacement was done well, although the dark blue sky was also quite a bit oversaturated. 

Example 2. HDR Blending of Interior Image

The interior image editing was fine, but nothing special. They did a standard job with the white balance and made sure to mask in the window views from the darkest exposure, which was nice.

That said, this type of edit would not be worth $10+. All in all, you can clearly see that real estate photo editing isn’t their strongest area of knowledge or expertise. 

Revisions

Given the less than acceptable results, I needed one revision — adjusting the lighting and exposure level on the exterior photo.

Color Experts BD’s free trial offer for photo editing said nothing about revisions, but I thought it couldn’t hurt to ask. They accepted my revision and turned it around in about 12 hours.  

On a positive note, the revised image looked somewhat better. 

Image Quality

To summarize, the quality of Color Experts’ real estate photo editing was average to subpar:

• The exterior image had slight exposure problems
• The interior image was simply average in quality 

For all the effort I put into placing the order, the results were less than encouraging. 

Now, let’s turn our attention to Color Experts’ customer support.

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Color Experts’ Support

My experience with Color Experts’ customer support was fine. My experience was limited to email but I can report:

• They answered my questions rather quickly
• Any ordering or downloading instructions were correct and easy to follow

Overall, I had no complaints about my customer support experience with Color Experts BD.

Additional Services

Before I wrap up this review, I want to mention the benefit of being able to address all of your marketing needs in one place through one vendor. 

One-stop-shopping for marketing service saves time and effort. For example, my real estate business regularly needs:

• Virtual staging
• Single property websites
• Floor plans
• Help from virtual assistants
• And property flyers, too

Color Experts BD offers real estate photo editing, but does not offer these other services. So, I’d need to work with different service providers on the same batch of listing photos — not exactly an ideal situation. 

With that said, now it’s time to wrap up our review of Color Experts BD real estate photo editing services.

Pros and Cons of Color Experts

In terms of a quick overview, here are some pros and cons of working with Color Experts BD:

Pros	Cons
Ample customer support	Difficult ordering
Acceptable turnaround time	Over an hour to upload photos
Free trial offer	Below average photo editing
Free and fast revision	Limited services

Verdict: Is Color Experts BD Real Estate Photo Editing Worth It?

My overall experience with Color Experts BD was rather poor. For example:

• It took over an hour to upload my photos
• Their prices were way too high compared to other photo editing companies
• The quality of their editing was substandard
• Limited services — they don’t offer what I need in terms of real estate marketing

Based on the above, I cannot recommend working with Color Experts for your real estate photo editing needs.

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We hope you enjoyed this Color Experts BD real estate photo editing review and that you found it useful for your decision-making.  

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Gregory Gronbacher

Real Estate Sales Agent / Professional Blogger

Gregory is a real estate sales agent and a state-certified instructor of real estate licensing and law. Originally from New York City, he's called Grand Rapids, Michigan home since 1995.

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