Smart Photo Editors Real Estate Photo Editing Review

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Are you looking for a service that can help you edit your real estate photos?

Make sure to check out our Smart Photo Editors real estate photo editing review before you make any decisions about which photo editing service to use. 

In this review, we take an in-depth look at the real estate photo editing services offered by Smart Photo Editors and their pricing, ordering process, quality and examples, revisions, support, and additional services.

Let’s get started with a comparison table between Smart Photo Editors and PhotoUp’s real estate photo editing services:

Overall Rating

Overall Rating
	3.3	4.8
Provider	Smart Photo Editors	PhotoUp
Current Ranking	7th of 25	1st of 25
Best For	n/a	overall
Cost per Image	$0.80 per image	$1.00-$1.50 per image
Turnaround Time	18 hours	12-24 hours
Quality
Overall Quality	quite good	excellent
Consistency	all notes followed	all notes followed
Pricing
Cost of Single Shot/HDR	$0.80 per image	$1.00-$1.50 per image
Rush Delivery	12 hour rush +$0.5 credits/image	yes, 12 hours rush= 50% extra
Cost per Revision	free revisions	free revisions
Volume Discount	yes	varies
Ordering
Order Form Interface	okay, a bit dated/basic	good & easy to learn
Turnaround Time	18 hours	12-24 hours
Weekend Service	limited	yes
Upload Speed	fast & smooth	fast & smooth
Payment Accepted	debit/credit	debit/credit, ACH
Services
Photo Editing	yes	yes
Video Editing	no	yes
Virtual Staging	no	yes
Floor Plans	yes	yes
Virtual Assistants	no	yes
Systems and Extras
White labeled sub-Photographer Accounts	no	yes
Photo Delivery	yes	yes
Property Websites	no	yes
Home Flyers	no	yes
Photo Backup	no	yes
Online Scheduling	no	yes
Virtual Tours	yes	yes
Support
Support FAQ	no	yes
Email	yes	yes
Chat	yes	yes
USA Phone	no	yes
Response Time	1-24 hours	5 min
Website	smartphotoeditors.com	photoup.net
Other Services	photo editing floor plan virtual tours panorama photo stitching floor plan conversions hdr blending corrections editing of drone images sky replacement	photo editing virtual staging video editing single property websites house portraits virtual assistants custom websites virtual tours

Smart Photo Editors (SPE) Overview

Smart Photo Editors (SPE) is an international photo editing company from India that offers services across a wide range of sectors, including fashion, antique photo restoration, cars, and much more.

Real estate is just one of their areas of interest. For example, their teams of skilled Adobe experts work primarily with photographers around the world to enhance their images and deliver an affordable post-production service. 

Pricing

Already at pricing, things started to get complicated, and my misgivings began.

On the positive side, Smart Photo Editors’ pricing model is quite flexible, depending on the volume of work you need and how quickly you need delivery to take place.

Their basic package includes:

• HDR blending with Oleno software 
• Shadows and highlights adjustments 
• Levels and contrast/brightness adjustments 

To give you an idea, when working on real estate imagery, their pricing seems to start at $0.50 for stills, $0.80 for HDR images, and $1.50 for panoramic images. 

But on the negative side, it’s really hard to figure out what you’re going to pay, and it takes a long time to get a quote on what you’re doing.

They have told me multiple items that they will send pricing options once the “Free Trial” is over, and it’s been a couple of days now.

The fact is, at this point, I can’t tell you what the definitive cost of their services is, and I’ve run out of patience to wait and find out. To me, this is quite peculiar.

Update: The pricing finally arrived via email, after four days of using the service!

The same workflows are offered for manual blending – Moderate at $1.40, and for Manual Blending – Complex at $1.75.

It’s true that this information did answer a few questions, but it also led to a few more.

For example, what determines whether a blend is simple, moderate, or complex? And is this cost for everyone or for me specifically?

I may be stating the obvious, but this feels needlessly complicated and off-putting to me.

Ordering From SPE

SPE has a unique approach to serving new clients, which I found quite interesting. Let’s take a closer look at the ordering process and uploading images.

1. Creating an Account

To create an account and get started, it seems you always have to start by filling in your details in the “Start Free Trial” box. 

And that input took you to a “Thank You” screen.

A few moments later, a personalized e-mail arrived where a consultant asked a few questions about your expectations.

This was the key line in the email: “I would be more than happy to do a Complimentary Trial Test for you to ensure that we are on the same page meeting your expectation in Quality and Turnaround Time before we share the cost.”

I replied to the mail explaining my needs and then uploaded my images using WeTransfer.   

2. Uploading Images

WeTransfer is a tried and tested reliable platform. When I opened it up, I detailed what I would like done in the comments, and clicked “Upload.”

That went well.  

In the next step, you were sent a verification code to your email, and after confirming your email, the uploading proceeded. 

It took about 5 minutes to upload my 300Mb worth of images, probably because my internet connection wasn’t great.

But I was happy to wait, and it all worked smoothly.

To their credit, the team at SPE was very responsive and engaged once I had uploaded my images.

They responded via email, quickly acknowledging they had received the images, and letting me know they were getting to work on them. 

Then, after a wait of only 5 or 6 hours, I received an email that contained a Dropbox link telling me that my test images were ready for viewing.

I was impressed by the speed!

With that being said, let’s take a look at the quality of the results next. 

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Photo Editing Examples

SPE understood the brief clearly and responded well to direction. The images were delivered fast, and there were no hiccups. 

Here are the before and after images: 

SPE brought a lot of life and warmth to this room with the roaring fire.

In addition, the outside world looked vibrant and gave a nice balance to the photo.

I would have pushed the contrast for more “drama,” but they did a good job here. 

The focus of the brief was to remove the towel hanging in the bathroom, and they did a good job with that.

But the window was too blown out. And overall, it felt too bright and over-exposed for my taste. 

Good job, SPE!

They blended the bracketed images well and gave a nice, summery afternoon feeling to the exterior of the house.

Additionally, the removal of the swing was clean. 

The dappled light and the sky looked natural in this slightly closer framing of the house.

But overall, the photo felt a bit flat and two-dimensional.

Revisions

I wanted to test how well SPE handled requests for changes to their work, so I emailed the team back with a request to remove the vehicle on the left of the window in one of their images.

I knew it wasn’t going to be an easy edit, so I was eager to see how well they would respond to that.

It took a few days and a couple of emails for SPE to come back to me on the revision, but when they did, they did it well.

The file arrived in the same Dropbox folder and had replaced the previous version.

As you can see, the extraction was well done, although they did remove both vehicles instead of the one. But I was satisfied with the work.

Image Quality

Overall, SPE did a satisfactory job with the sky replacement and object removal, while the window masking was average. 

If you’re not too worried about workflow and want to use SPE, you’ll find your images are processed satisfactorily.

In my opinion, not as good as PhotoUp’s real estate photo editing services, but not too bad.

Are you enjoying this Smart Photo Editors real estate photo editing review so far? I hope so!

Let’s carry on by looking at SPE’s support and additional services.

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Support

SPE was very responsive to every query that I had.

They sent through four or five emails and kept me informed every step of the way. And they were eager to please, which is a good trait in a service provider. 

Additional Services

One of the most important aspects of a photo editing service is how well their services interact with each other.

SPE offers additional services, such as:

• Virtual tours
• Panorama photo stitching
• Floor plan conversions
• HDR blending corrections
• Editing of drone images
• Sky replacement

But primarily, they work hard on editing your photos, delivering them, and leaving the rest of the real estate marketing up to you.

Pros and Cons of SPE

To give you a quick overview, here are the pros and cons of SPE:

Pros	Cons
Fast initial delivery	Slow revision process
Good product quality	No workable CMS
Easy uploads via WeTransfer	Reliance on email
Friendly service	Confusion around pricing

Verdict: Is Smart Photo Editors’ Real Estate Photo Editing Services Worth Using?

The verdict of my Smart Photo Editors real estate photo editing review is that SPE has assembled a good team of artists and their editing is solid.

So, no complaints there.

But the website is very text-heavy and there is no CRM for you to plug into. Instead, you need to rely on email and Dropbox, which has its challenges, but I’m sure it would work out. 

However, the strange opacity and inability to tell me how much the service would cost was very frustrating and off-putting. It honestly felt like they were trying to hide something, and eventually, I gave up waiting. 

Besides, there’s an over-reliance on email communication, and different people seem to get back to you at different times. I actually stopped waiting on a few answers to my questions.

On the positive side, they are a solid option with a track record and the team seems very pleasant to work with. But, for my money, I would choose a dedicated real estate marketing company that’s upfront about costs, with a CRM you can centralize operations around. 

And that’s it!

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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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