№ 09 — Photo enhancement · Light & sky
Photo enhancement — quiet corrections to colour, light, and lens.
A studio cleanup pass — colour cast, exposure, geometric and lens correction, dust spot and flash reflection removal.
BeforeAfter
Enhancement · quiet pass
The problem
The photo is mostly fine but the white balance leans warm, the verticals are slightly tilted, the flash bounced a hot spot off the kitchen tile. Photo enhancement is the baseline pass that brings every listing photo to a single legible standard.
The standard
- Colour cast corrected toward neutral, never toward fashion-magazine warm.
- Verticals straightened only when the shift is small enough to keep the framing.
- Dust spots and flash reflections removed; the room behind them stays the same material.
The handoff
Hi-res JPG sized for portal and print. The manifest notes which corrections were applied.
Companion tools
Photo enhancement is the baseline cleanup before any other tool runs. Pair it with the rest of the Light & sky group for a complete exterior pass.
When Vesta runs it
Step 05 of the New Listing Kickoff run — applied across the full set as the small-fix pass.
Field notes
Read the studio note on white balance that leans neutral, not fashion-warm.
Where this lives
Part of the Light & sky entry in the tool catalog. When several tools in this group apply to the same listing, hand the listing to Vesta and let her plan the run.
When the next listing reaches you,